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Mark Cuban’

October 25, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Sweat equity in SocialDreamium

I’ve struggled recently with where SocialDreamium will go. In it’s current state, less than 1 month old,  I’m still working on closing my first client for social web consulting, I realize already that eventually I will have a desire for it to grow far beyond it being solely services. For now, consulting is a very [...]

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Posted Under Projects

October 6, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Prepare Wait Pounce

Mark Cuban recently wrote the most cliche title for a blog post ever, “How to Get Rich”, and I loved it! Unlike many $100k per year authors who write the get rich quick books and pump them out as fast as possible with little value add, Cubans post is no frills, and honest. Not to [...]

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Posted Under Economics

September 30, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Summary: Financial Crisis effect on VCs and startups

In 2001 the pop of the bubble in Silicon Valley brought Wall St. tumbling down. Will This pop on Wall St return the favor to Silicon Valley? The super investment savvy in NYC and beyond probably have a pretty good take on what the hell is going on with the financial crisis. What’s most interesting [...]

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Posted Under Economics

September 28, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

Quarantine of Bad Assets

This weekend I had a friend who works at JP Morgan explain his take on the bailout and why he thinks its a good idea. I thought his explanation was the best I’d heard so I’ll try and replicate his description here. The major financial institutions in the US have bad assets on their balance [...]

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Posted Under Economics

September 13, 2008
Posted by Ryan Graves

The old entrepreneur vs the new entrepreneur

This is from the interview between Jason Calacanis and Mark Cuban at TC50: JC: Who’s the entrepreneur you respect most? Current or past? MC: I guess Bill Gates. Larry Ellison I respect. You know, old school entrepreneurs, it was just diffferent. There was a different crede. I used to want to be profitable every month, [...]

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Posted Under Entrepreneurship People & Leadership


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