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Cuban: My biggest investment mistakes were smart founders who couldn't sell
“No business has ever succeeded without sales. And some of the biggest mistakes and investments I've made is the kids were smart. The people were smart. But they had no sense of customers and accomplishment and selling and, you know, achieving customer goals an…”
Cuban: Blindly buying pitches on early Shark Tank yielded worst investments
“And I thought, I'm gonna do my three episodes, but I'm just gonna raise hell. Right? I'm just gonna go on there and buy everything. I don't care what it is, but I'm just gonna just buy everything. And so that's what I did. And I bought some of the worst compan…”
Cuban: Portfolio founders must report bad news first in regular updates
“What I do is I typically get weekly or bi-weekly emails, and I always want bad news first. You always have access to me. You can email me any question, but I expect good news, right? I invested because I expect you to do good things. So I want to know the bad …”