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Mark Cuban
Personal blog · blogmaverick.combusinessstartups
Mark Cuban writes blog maverick, a personal blog at blogmaverick.com about business and startups. Since 2007, 254 different Hacker News readers have linked it 433 times, most often “Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 12 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Mark Cuban's blog for posts on getting rich and investment advice, success and motivation, high-frequency trading, and dividends versus buybacks, often as a counterpoint to other views.
- Recommended for · 12 comments
- Called an excellent post, an old gem, gold and a good point; told readers to read or check it out; listed among good individual blogs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2012-03-18
- Mark Cuban: How Stocks are like Baseball Cards (2004)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2008-09-22
- Success & Motivation - Mark Cuban6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2008-12-06
- Want an Unpaid Internship So You Can Get Valuable Experience ? – Screw You 6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2009-09-05
- The Great Internet Video Lie5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-01-27
- Success & Motivation5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-05-13
- Mark Cuban: success and motivation – You only have to be right once5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-07-29
- What Business is Wall Street In? 4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-05-09
- My Soapbox Advice to the OWS Movement and then some4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-10-15
- Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 20004 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-03-04
What Hacker News says?
Some good ones: http://avc.com/ http://paulgraham.com/ http://www.moserware.com/ https://believermag.com/ https://blogmaverick.com/ https://fs.blog/ https://juliagalef.com/ https://marginalrevolution.com/ https://nav.al/ https://sive.rs/ https://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/ https://vitalik.ca/ https://waitbutwhy.com/ https://www.lrb.co.uk/ https://www.metafilter.com/ https://xkcd.com/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon as a story · 339 points
HN discussionI don't always agree with Mark Cuban, but I think he makes a good point on this when he talks about the folly in the adage, "follow your passions." His point is that you should follow your efforts as that leads you to be better at something, which in turn grows your passions in it. You can read his words for yourself: http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-... .
Comment linking /2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-follow-your-effort/
on “What Doesn't Seem Like Work?”Submitted Mark Cuban: If you want to see more jobs created -- change patent laws as a story · 335 points
HN discussionfwiw, Mark Cuban seemingly forgot about the judicial branch also when examining problem recently ( http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/13/i-hope-yahoo-crushes-face... ) - "Rather than originating in Congress, its going to take a consumer uprising to cause change".
Comment linking /2012/03/13/i-hope-yahoo-crushes-face...
on “Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional””Submitted I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook as a story · 275 points
HN discussion> In addition, I wonder by what criteria one would evaluate how "properly" the markets are functioning. Who decides what is proper? For example, based on the business fundamentals it seems ludicrous to me that Apple would have a lower P/E ratio than GM--but it currently does. Couple of things: 1. Reference to Apple PE ratio is likely a market driven phenomenon that has occurred before to the other technology company…
Comment linking /2010/05/09/what-business-is-wall-street-in/
on “Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early”Submitted What Business is Wall Street In? as a story · 221 points
HN discussionMark Cuban has been writing about this since at least 2012: http://blogmaverick.com/2012/05/13/the-coming-meltdown-in-co... https://www.inc.com/mark-cuban/video-student-loans-bubble.ht...
Comment linking /2012/05/13/the-coming-meltdown-in-college-education-why-the-economy-wont-get-better-any-time-soon/
on “Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market”Submitted Mark Cuban: What Business is Wall Street in? as a story · 196 points
HN discussionA similar sentiment: http://blogmaverick.com/2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-...
Comment linking /2012/03/18/dont-follow-your-passion-follow-your-effort/
on “Instead of ‘finding your passion,’ try developing it, Stanford scholars say”Submitted An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People as a story · 186 points
HN discussionYup. One of Mark Cuban's finest lessons: http://blogmaverick.com/2005/05/30/success-and-motivation-yo...
Comment linking /2005/05/30/success-and-motivation-you-only-have-to-be-right-once/
on “My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups ”Submitted Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right as a story · 171 points
HN discussionNot true. Marc Cuban has written an excellent blog post on this: http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-s... Dividends reward you for holding a stock. Buybacks you when you sell the stock. I'd much prefer dividends, and if we had a better tax policy on them, I think you'd see companies do a lot less crazy #&*$ to expand into markets that they have no business in.
Comment linking /2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/
on “Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit”Submitted The Idiot's Guide to High Frequency Trading as a story · 149 points
HN discussion>5) The Thiel hypothesis: Recent technological developments are intrinsically more boring than past technological developments; Shouldn't that be the Cuban hypothesis ? Cuban in 2006 http://blogmaverick.com/2006/07/12/the-internet-is-old-news-... Cuban in 2007 http://blogmaverick.com/2007/08/27/the-internet-is-still-dea... Cuban in 2008 http://blogmaverick.com/2008/02/10/the-internet-is-officiall... Thiel said it in…
Comment linking /2008/02/10/the-internet-is-officially-dead-and-boring-its-the-economy-stupi/
on “We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future”Submitted The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do as a story · 121 points
HN discussionAnd against patents: http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/07/my-suggestion-on-patent-l... http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/mark-cubans-awesome-justifi...
Comment linking /2011/08/07/my-suggestion-on-patent-law/
on “Mark Cuban makes Shark Tank remove equity clause in contract”Submitted I hired a team of shoppers to find out how businesses were opening in Dallas as a story · 112 points
HN discussionHistory doesn't necessarily repeat nor rhyme. For 15 years now there have been people wrongly calling a bubble. The justifications change but looking back we can say they were wrong - or at least, a "bubble" that never pops and people get bored of talking about might have just been actual, real economic growth. September 2020: 2020 Tech Stock Bubble (Sunpointe Investments, tech in general) https://sunpointeinvestmen…
Comment linking /2015/03/04/why-this-tech-bubble-is-worse-than-the-tech-bubble-of-2000/
on “Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025”Submitted Will Your College Go Out of Business Before You Graduate? as a story · 111 points
HN discussionHe also talks about it in the Netflix documentary Inside Bill's Brain. Warren Buffett famously said to some students, "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it." Charlie Munger is as much of a reader as Buffett. He's especially fond of biographies, according to the book The Joy of Compounding…
Comment linking /2011/04/07/shark-tank-success-motivation/
on “The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently”Submitted Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000 as a story · 109 points
HN discussionI really like this post by Mark Cuban and the HN discussion about Why you should never listen to you customers. Worth checking out.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244756 [2010] https://blogmaverick.com/2010/04/06/why-you-should-never-lis... [2010]
Comment linking /2010/04/06/why-you-should-never-listen-to-your-customers/
on “In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users”Submitted The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan - Open Source Funding as a story · 108 points
HN discussionWhat is this guy's deal? He posted almost the exact same blog post over a year ago. http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/08/what-business-is-wall-str...
Comment linking /2011/08/08/what-business-is-wall-street-in-2/
on “What Business is Wall Street In?”Submitted Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich as a story · 108 points
HN discussionI think you are interpreting the term 'invest' incorrectly. He has previously [1] alluded to a difference in the definition of trading and investing. [1] http://blogmaverick.com/2012/09/04/facebook-handled-their-ip...
Comment linking /2012/09/04/facebook-handled-their-ipo-exactly-right/
on “What Business is Wall Street In?”Submitted What Business is Wall Street In? as a story · 94 points
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