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Zillionaire sports team owner Mark Cuban has some advice for Obama: Get some real entrepreneurs on your economic team.
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Looking at that list, I am seeing a lot of retreads and big corporate types. My faith is starting to wane . . .
Posted by Steve | November 12, 2008 7:20 AM
Does he mean real entrepreneurs like Buena Vista Homes' Roger Pollock?
Posted by PMG | November 12, 2008 7:23 AM
Good point. The team needs input from some real Joes. ID a number of successful startups in various industries in different locales. Seek input on the impact of proposals via e-mail. A burgeoning entrepreneur probably has little time to participate directly.
Posted by genop | November 12, 2008 9:35 AM
Adding an entrepreneur or two is a good idea. Just don't let it be Mark Cuban.
He is getting advice from Warren Buffet, who is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time.
Posted by Deeds | November 12, 2008 11:37 AM
I think Cubans idea is excellent.
Posted by REALDON | November 12, 2008 11:44 AM
"Warren Buffet, who is one of the greatest entrepreneurs"
I'll grant you he is a good investor and good at recognizing small companies to throw money at. However, besides his investment firm, he's never started up a company.
Posted by Steve | November 12, 2008 11:58 AM
"However, besides his investment firm, he's never started up a company."
He hasn't started a business from the ground up, true. But an investment firm is a business of sorts, and he's grown it from very humble origins.
Posted by Deeds | November 12, 2008 2:22 PM
For those folks that haven't been keeping up on Warren Buffet lately, his investments have been doing poorly in recent months. Just for starters, he's at least $6.00 a share under water on several million shares of GE stock purchased last month; and also has even bigger losses on shares on Goldman Sachs. And that's on top of a $700 million dollare loss at his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate just this past quarter. Keep in mind that just because someone makes a killing over a number of years does not guarantee success in later years.
Posted by David A. | November 13, 2008 7:41 AM