Conversations with the most influential figures in media and technology.
May 25-27, 2009
Carlsbad, California
Speaker
Mark Cuban 
Chairman of HDNet and Owner
Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures
In September 2001, Mark Cuban launched HDNet, a provider of high-definition news, entertainment and sports programming. Cuban started his own computer consulting firm, MicroSolutions soon after college, which he later sold to CompuServe. In 1995, Cuban and his partner Todd Wagner co-founded Broadcast.com, an Internet service that provided streaming audio and video of live news, radio, television and sporting events. Broadcast.com went public, and was then purchased by Yahoo in 1999, making Cuban one of the wealthiest people in the country. In January of 2000, Cuban used all those bucks to buy the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise, becoming the only owner in team sports to encourage fan interaction through email on his own personal computer. He has also partnered once again with Wagner to create 2929 Entertainment, a holding company that owns 100 percent of Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures Distribution, and Rysher Entertainment, and holds a stake in Lions Gate Entertainment. He is not known as a quiet man.
Posts With Mark Cuban
Voices
SEC Case Against Mark Cuban to Proceed
A federal judge in Dallas has denied a request by Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban to dismiss an insider-trading lawsuit.Bundle Up
People like bundles. People don’t like to work for their entertainment. They’ll pay a premium if it saves them time.
One Month On, Mark Cuban Is Doing Just Fine With Less Facebook in His Life
The billionaire gets candid on a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” page.
Mark Cuban Invests in Little Bird to Find Online Influentials
Little Bird goes deeply and geekily into the world of online influence.
Hulu’s “Shark Tank” Problem
Pay up, get less: Why you can watch Mark Cuban and company on Hulu’s free service, but not if you shell out $8 a month.
Shark Tank
If the CFO of Facebook came on SharkTank and told me that he was able to sell his shares to the public for $38 a share, but turned down the opportunity, I would crush him for being an idiot.
– Mark Cuban, in a post entitled “Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right,” in response to Andrew Ross Sorkin
Eye to Eye
Can Yahoo Turn Itself Around?
Mark Cuban and Eric Jackson answer the question: What is the one major thing you think Yahoo needs to do to turn itself around?
Movl Wants to Take “Kontrol” of Your TV (With a Little Help From Mark Cuban)
What TV-app start-up Movl plans to do with its fresh round of funding.
Don’t Listen to Your Customers
Entrepreneurs need to be reminded that it’s not the job of their customers to know what they don’t. In other words, your customers have a tough enough time doing their jobs.
– From Mark Cuban‘s 2011 book “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”
Voices
Mark Cuban Takes Shot at Writing an E-Book
Mark Cuban has 335,000 friends on Facebook and 760,000 followers on Twitter. Monday, the Internet billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team will test just how friendly those fans really are.
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