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Here’s the perfect time to start a businessit made me a millionaire [Video]

When Mark Cuban started the company that made him a millionaire, he was nearly at rock bottom — and he doesn’t think that was a coincidence.

“If you’ve got nothing, it’s the perfect time to start a business,” Cuban told the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” in an episode that aired last year.

He cited himself as proof: He’d recently been fired from his job at a computer software store and was sleeping on the floor of a three-bedroom apartment with six roommates when he launched his first startup, a tech company called MicroSolutions, in 1983.

“I couldn’t go any lower,” said Cuban, now 66. “There was no downside for me starting a business.”

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After roughly seven years — during which a secretary allegedly almost bankrupted the company, and Cuban himself, with forged checks — Cuban sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe for …

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Flutterwave Launches Virtual Workshop to Bolster Tech Skills Among African Youth [Video]

Flutterwave, a prominent African fintech firm, has introduced a two-day virtual training program aimed at equipping young Africans with practical expertise for careers in technology. The Accelerate Workshop, scheduled for April 26 and May 3, 2025, targets university students, recent graduates, and early-career professionals across the continent, offering sessions in