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How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It [Kindle Edition]

Mark Cuban (Author)
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Mark Cuban shares his wealth of experience and business savvy in his first published book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, available now only as an e-book. Using the greatest material from his popular Blog Maverick, he has collected and updated his postings on business and life to provide a catalog of insider knowledge on what it takes to become a thriving entrepreneur. Cuban tells his own rags-to-riches story of how he went from selling powdered milk and sleeping on friends' couches to owning his own company and becoming a multi-billion dollar success story. His unconventional yet highly effective ideas on how to build a successful business offer entrepreneurs at any stage of their careers a huge edge over their competitors.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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While it is true that Mark Cuban's eBook "How to Win at the Sport of Business" is simply a compilation of his blog posts (which are all available online for free), this book has something that his blog doesn't. Editing. I've read a number of his blog posts over the years and a few things are clear to me: 1) Mark is a smart, successful guy. 2) He has a lot of good ideas and information in his head and he's willing to share what he knows with anyone willing to take the time to read what he writes. 3) He's not a great writer. (His blog is filled with typos and weird punctuation issues.)

Thankfully, this book has been edited. The punctuation errors so common on his blog have been fixed, and most typos corrected (though there are still a few, and in some of the storytelling parts he changes from present tense to past tense). The blog posts have also been arranged in a logical way so that this book reads very comfortably as a complete book. That said, my biggest complaint about this book is also the editing. There is one blog post that appears twice (with different titles though). I don't know how someone misses something like that.

Small quirks aside, this book is a good, fast read filled with lots of valuable information. There is by no means anything earth shattering here, but there is plenty of useful information for anyone running a business or thinking of starting one.
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Every since I started reading Mark Cuban's weblog, BlogMaverick.com, I've been emailing links of my favorite posts to my employees and business associates. I subscribe to it on my RSS feed and typically read every entry within a matter of hours. So when I saw Mark's entry on Facebook that he had produced an ebook for sale, I bought it without a second thought. I must admit, I read the foreword and was immediately irritated to learn that the ebook was simply a collection of his most popular posts, many of which I'd read 10x over. Oh well, it's $2.99 as I read his first post which he discusses his humble beginnings coming to Dallas as a broke college grad. 5 hours later, I'm finished with the book and I'm convinced that was probably the best $3 I've spent on a book. If you're a blogmaverick reader his old posts have been updated with details and commentary that you will find very interesting and if you're not a blog maverick reader, you will no do doubt find find inspiration and more importantly, practical advice that applies to any business.

What I have always found most impressive about Mark is how little he cares about what people think about and how passionate he is about getting 'IT' right. This book arranges his rags to riches tale in a chronological order that will be of great practical use to any entrepreneur.

One thing I've felt throughout this NBA Lockout and ever more so after reading this ebook is that Mark Cuban must be going absolutely insane sitting in these 'business meetings' over the NBA's labor issues with dinosaurs like Billy Hunter and David Stern. I'll borrow a quote from his post "Twelve Cuban Mantra for Success":

"11. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered
This is one I got from my partner Todd Wagner. He is right on. Sometimes you have to go for the jugular, but more often than not, the biggest mistake people make is getting too greedy.

Every good deal has a win-win solution. There is nothing I hate more than someone who tries to squeez every last penny out of a deal. Who often raises the aggravation level to the point where it's not worth doing the deal. Which also raises the dislike level to the point where even if a deal gets done, you look for ways to never do business with that person or company again.

Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal."

hrrmm...wonder if this could apply to Dan Gilbert and MJ??

Well as I digress, I'll end this review with saying that rather than emailing links to my employees, friends and business associates, I'm going to buy this ebook for them.
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Mark Cuban made his money by selling his small company broadcast.com to Yahoo. Broadcast.com never made a dime. At the time Cuban sold the business, the company only had 22 million dollars in revenue but a whopping 18 million dollar loss. Yahoo after spending millions on broadcast.com decided to shut it down only after a few years because it kept losing money. At the time of the purchase broadcast.com only accounted for a mere 2% of Yahoo's total revenue. Yahoo brass must of felt like fools to have paid so much for so little.

Cuban's other companies don't make money either. The Dallas Mavericks have lost millions of dollars every year, even last year when they won the championship. HDNET, Cuban's cable channel, loses money, the films that Cuban produces also lose money and after buying Landmark Theaters several years ago, which also lost money, he now wants to sell. LOL The internet sites he invests in like Sharesleuth.com have all been failures. What is even more troubling is that he is currently under investigation for insider trading by the SEC, which sets a bad example.

There is not one example of Cuban making money in any of his businesses, so I have to ask what good advice could he possibly give readers? He often talks about his business skills but for all of business skills he does not make money and isn't making money what good businesspeople do?

As far as the book is concerned, the writing is poor. Cuban is not a writer and it shows. Most of the material here has already been written about in magazines and newspapers. There is really nothing new.
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A book about winning by a winner!
Mark Cuban never disappoints. This book is a must read for any business owner or entrepreneur! It is a concise, quick read, yet full of great information, advice and motivation. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Leonard Mack
Surprisingly Enjoyable
Being about business, I assumed this book would be a dry read, but it is very interesting - even fun - to read. Read more
Published 24 days ago by Mr. Mist
Worth the money
The thing I liked best about this book was the low price (2.99). The book is a collection of the author's blog posts, but reads quite well, and does not feel totally disjointed as... Read more
Published 27 days ago by kkkwj
Good, Quick Read
The book lacks the structure of a more formal piece, but contains plenty of nuggets of wisdom and a good window into Cuban's character. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Brendan
Mark Cuban's' "How to Win at the Sport of Business"
Mark Cuban's book, "How to Win at the Sport of Business" is an excellent book!! Mark writes it as if he is your best friend, standing face to face with you, giving you the Cliff... Read more
Published 1 month ago by V.M.
Straight forward, very well worded, easy read.
Mark puts his experiences and wisdom on paper in a fashion that is fun to read and very informative and helpful. Great book for anyone striving to do better in life!
Published 1 month ago by JayP198504
Great advice, bad writing
As others noted, this is a compilation of older blog posts, which is worth the price of a couple of bucks for me to have it one place. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Gapkalov
Quick read with lots of insight
This is a quick read.... you could easily read it in a couple of hours.

Yes, it is a series of posts, but I found it to be thought provoking from the standpoint of his... Read more
Published 1 month ago by BarbZ
Great no-nonsense advice from a genuine successful guy
I have to say this first: I didn't care much about Cuban. In fact he annoyed me with his attitude and his tendency to get fined by the NBA. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Green Iris
A Must reading for any young business student
I loved this book. I left the corporate world in 2001 after being downsized by my employer . I worked at the company for 25 years and it was gone in an instant...I know.... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bruce Mitchell
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