Mark Cuban, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, a graduate of Indiana University, and now a Dallas, TX resident has always been an entrepreneur. From selling and trading baseball cards, selling garbage bags and magazines door-to-door, to starting a business buying and selling stamps at age 16, there have been few years in his life when he wasn’t starting or running a business. After graduating from IU, a friend suggested he come to Dallas. Off Mark went to live in “The Village” with five roommates, getting only the floor in the corner of a bedroom as his new “home.” Starting as a bartender, he was not there long before he got a job at one of Dallas’ first retail software stores, Your Business Software. He spent nine months doing everything from learning how to code, supporting and installing every type of business software and of course, making sure the store opened on time. That went well until he made the executive decision to turn over the store opening duties to a peer so he could pick up a check for a sale. He was fired.