Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is among six notable people featured in Amazon’s video series of Day One: Insights for Entrepreneurs, which offers “quick tips from top business thinkers.”
Cuban is joined in the series by Ariana Huffington, Tim Ferriss, Angela Duckworth, Adam Grant, and Kim Scott.
In his video, “3 Essential Rules for Entrepreneurs,” Cuban offers these tips:
“The biggest sales person in your company has to be you.”
Mark Cuban
1. Sales Cure All: He tells viewers, “The biggest sales person in your company has to be you.”
2. Selling is Helping: “Sales is about taking the time to understand the needs of the person you’re selling to.”
3. All Entrepreneurs Lie to Themselves: “Be brutally honest with yourself,” Cuban said. “When you’re an entrepreneur, you have to figure out how to kick your own ass before someone else does if for you.”
The other video presenters are from a mix of backgrounds.
Huffington is co-founder and editor of The Huffington Post, now owned by AOL, while Ferriss is a public speaker, author, entrepreneur.
Duckworth is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and a popular science author. Grant is an American author and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.
You can find all six videos here.
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