Cuban: MicroSolutions Sold to CompuServe for $6M, Netting Him $2M
Mark Cuban · Serial Entrepreneur: Mark Cuban · Dec 5, 2016 · at 12:25
Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban recounts the sale of his first company, MicroSolutions, to CompuServe.
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“Sold it for six million dollars, gave a chunk of it to my employees, ended up with two million and Martin ended up with two million, and boom.”
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