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80. Mark Cuban: What investors really look for

80. Mark Cuban: What investors really look for

FromMasters of Scale


80. Mark Cuban: What investors really look for

FromMasters of Scale

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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Mar 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

No one knows the fundraising game better than Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur, investor, and star of Shark Tank. For founders, identifying the right source of capital, under the right terms, can provide a thermal updraft. But as Cuban explains, there are always strings attached when you bring on a financial partner – and those strings can pull you crashing down if you don't understand them properly. Cuban shares deep insights on the qualities investors look for in a founder, and what entrepreneurs should be looking for in return. Only the right value exchange, he says, will enable a business to leverage its way to new heights. Read a transcript of this interview at: https://mastersofscale.com.Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/dlirtX.The Masters of Scale Courses App is now LIVE!Redeem code CHALLENGE at join.mastersofscale.com/challenge for 50% off the annual membership price. You’ll want to get your membership before Monday, April 5, 2021, which is when we start the Masters of Scale 30-Day #MindsetChallenge on social media. Reid Hoffman will guide us through the first course in the app on social media. You can download the app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store and check out the first course now – it’s called “The Mindset of Scale” You can see 3 days of daily practice content for free when you download the app. To access the rest, you’ll need to become a member.Redeem code CHALLENGE at join.mastersofscale.com/challenge for 50% off the annual membership price.
Released:
Mar 30, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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The best startup advice from Silicon Valley & beyond. Iconic CEOs — from Nike to Netflix, Starbucks to Slack — share the stories & strategies that helped them grow from startups into global brands.On each episode, host Reid Hoffman — LinkedIn cofounder, Greylock partner and legendary Silicon Valley investor — proves an unconventional theory about how businesses scale, while his guests share the story of how I built this company. Reid and guests talk entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, management, fundraising. But they also talk about the human journey — with all its failures and setbacks. With original, cinematic music and hilariously honest stories, Masters of Scale is a business podcast that doesn’t sound like a business podcast. Guests on Masters of Scale have included the founders and CEOs of Netflix, Google, Facebook, Starbucks, Nike, Fiat, Spotify, Instagram, Airbnb, Uber, Paypal, Huffington Post, Twitter, Medium, Bumble, Yahoo, Slack, Spanx, Shake Shack, Dropbox, TaskRabbit, 23&Me, Mailchimp, Evite, Flickr, CharityWater, Endeavor, IAC and many more.