Mark Cuban

Biography

• Born in Pittsburgh, PA on July 31 1958• Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, a NBA

basketball team and owner of HDNet,which is a HDTV cable network

• Left high school early to enroll atPittsburgh University then latertransferred to Indiana University

Early Years

• Founded MicroSolutions which deals withsystem software and integrators; foundedtechnologies such as carbon copy, lotusnotes and CompuServe

• Then founded Broadcast.com which dealtwith college sports and web casting whichbecame part of yahoo sports after Cubansold it for $5.9 Billion in yahoo stock

Billionaire Entrepreneur

• Forbes listed him as the 296th richestman

• Holds single largest eCommercetransaction with his $40 million jet

• Has ventures in the social software anddistributed networking industries

Dallas Mavericks

• Took over ownership of the Mavericks onJanuary 15 2000 for $285 million

• Drastically improved their winningpercentage over his time of being owner

• Different than most owners who sit in thebox, Cuban sits right next to the team and isvery active during games.

HDNet

• This is the first high definition televisionsatellite network

• Co-founder with Phillip Garvin• Continues to bring multiple shows, movies,

political events, documentaries and sportingevents in HD all over the globe

• Only broadcasts in HD and is available onboth cable and satellite TV’s

2929 Entertainment

• Co-founder with Todd Wagner• Provides vertically integrated the production

and the distribution of films and other videos• In 2004 purchased Landmark Theaters which

has 58 arthouse movie theaters• Has produced one movie, Bubble which came

out in 2006• Also responsible for recreating the CBS show

Starsearch

Other interests of Cuban

• Has had interest in buying other sportsteams. Those include the PittsburghPenguins of the NHL and either thePittsburgh Pirates or the Chicago Cubs of theMLB

• Cuban was also rumored to own a newfootball team in a new professional footballleague in Las Vegas

Continued

• Those the UFL’s games will bebroadcast on Cuban’s HDNet and hewill possibly own a new expansionteam in either 2010 or 2011

• Talks with the McMahon’s (a wrestlingfamily) to create a mixed martial artsto compete with the UFC

Recap

• Cuban’s interest go far beyond being a sportsowner. He is the founder of a HDTV serviceand has produced many online sportsdatabase companies that were later sold tobigger search engines

• Cuban also has broadened his basketballownership to try and own sports in hockey,baseball and even fighting leagues

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• "Cuban wins bid to toss out SEC claim." LexisNexis(TM). 18 July 2009. Web. 8 Oct. 2009.<http://web.lexis-nexis.com/scholastic/document?_m=689ce5830011499a229c58fdccd2ed04&_docnum=38&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkVk&_md5=989fd75a2fe3b9daa546df50b90a3845>.

• "Mark Cuban -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia, 4 Oct. 2009. Web. 08 Oct.2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban>.

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• Stross, Randall. "Cuban missing the Big Picture?" LexisNexis(TM). 18 Dec. 2005. Web. 8Oct. 2009. <http://web.lexis-nexis.com/scholastic/document?_m=e9eaccba14c8b2a96556bc6cfab70e48&_docnum=116&wchp=dGLzVlz-zSkVk&_md5=e7c997320d48a9f5b2ec67cd908fb5bf>.