How Mark Cuban got his start in the software industry at 24, with no previous experience with computers

Every night I would take home a different software manual, and I would read them... Peachtree, PFS, DBase, Lotus, Accpac… I couldn’t put them down. Every night I would read some after getting home, no matter how late.

It worked. Turns out not a lot of people ever bothered to RTFM (read the frickin’ manual), so people started really thinking I knew my stuff.

--Mark Cuban via blogmaverick.com

My friend Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (the most awesome way to buy tickets for sporting events and concerts) cites Mark Cuban as one of his personal heroes. This is a great reason why he should be yours too.

Hustle.