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How much does Mark Cuban have now? (350K as only Angel)

by bthomas 13y ago

changdizzle 13y ago
cuban sold his shares to DFJ during their series A in 06 due to disagreements: http://pando.com/2014/01/31/box-is-the-unicorn-that-mark-cuban-let-get-away/ http://pando.com/2014/01/31/box-is-the-unicorn-that-mark-cub...
- tristanz 13y ago
  The Cuban comment in that thread is interesting: "I didn't miss a thing. When a company raises hundreds of millions of dollars I would have been diluted to nothing. But the bigger issue is that I'm not a fan of situations where you have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to do tens of millions in sales. It's a lesson learned from the tech bubble It was one thing when the valuation as a multiple of sales was in stock. It's a bigger thing when that multiple is my cash."
  - midas007 13y ago
    Box needs to monetize on enterprise add-ons. There's a huge pile of cash there if they hustle ahead and steal Dropbox's lollipop. Further, nurturing and gobbling up feature plays. Gotta pull off a "Siri." Finally, tons more integrations (other apps, more language sdks and some videos showing off some neat use-cases at open source conferences).
    - ssijak 13y ago
      advice pulled out of from where the sun does not shine... really, give talks at open source conferences, that would raise value how much? or library for brainfuck?
      - midas007 13y ago
        Having dev evangelists presenting cool shit gets people aware of your platform and it's free marketing, the best kind. Further, Java, Python, Ruby, Obj-C, Android and C# isn't complete. [0] JS for browser front-end and node back-end is clearly missing or third-party. A somewhat smaller shop, Segment.io, has all of those and PHP and Clojure. And a metric ton of integrations comparatively. [1] [2] [0] http://developers.box.com/sdks/ http://developers.box.com/sdks/ [1] https://segment.io/libraries/analytics.js https://segment.io/libraries/analytics.js [2] http://blog.box.com/tag/integrations/ http://blog.box.com/tag/integrations/

How much does Mark Cuban have now? (350K as only Angel)

by bthomas 13y ago

How much does Mark Cuban have now? (350K as only Angel)

cuban sold his shares to DFJ during their series A in 06 due to disagreements: http://pando.com/2014/01/31/box-is-the-unicorn-that-mark-cuban-let-get-away/ http://pando.com/2014/01/31/box-is-the-unicorn-that-mark-cub...

tristanz 13y ago
The Cuban comment in that thread is interesting: "I didn't miss a thing. When a company raises hundreds of millions of dollars I would have been diluted to nothing. But the bigger issue is that I'm not a fan of situations where you have to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to do tens of millions in sales. It's a lesson learned from the tech bubble It was one thing when the valuation as a multiple of sales was in stock. It's a bigger thing when that multiple is my cash."
- midas007 13y ago
  Box needs to monetize on enterprise add-ons. There's a huge pile of cash there if they hustle ahead and steal Dropbox's lollipop. Further, nurturing and gobbling up feature plays. Gotta pull off a "Siri." Finally, tons more integrations (other apps, more language sdks and some videos showing off some neat use-cases at open source conferences).
  - ssijak 13y ago
    advice pulled out of from where the sun does not shine... really, give talks at open source conferences, that would raise value how much? or library for brainfuck?
    - midas007 13y ago
      Having dev evangelists presenting cool shit gets people aware of your platform and it's free marketing, the best kind. Further, Java, Python, Ruby, Obj-C, Android and C# isn't complete. [0] JS for browser front-end and node back-end is clearly missing or third-party. A somewhat smaller shop, Segment.io, has all of those and PHP and Clojure. And a metric ton of integrations comparatively. [1] [2] [0] http://developers.box.com/sdks/ http://developers.box.com/sdks/ [1] https://segment.io/libraries/analytics.js https://segment.io/libraries/analytics.js [2] http://blog.box.com/tag/integrations/ http://blog.box.com/tag/integrations/