Mark Cuban | WRAL TechWire - Part 2

Mark Cuban

Durham's Validic Lands $760K Seed Round Led by Mark Cuban

Drew Schiller wants to check up on you, see if you’re OK, make sure you don’t need anything. That gets a laugh, albeit more of a pity laugh. Which is OK, I’ve known Drew long enough that I don’t need his pity. “The problem we want to solve is that mobile healthcare — healthcare outside of a physicians office, is growing rapidly,” he says. “Smartphones are pervasive, Fitbits are now for everyone. Physicians are starting to prescribe mobile heath devices. The problem is that there are all of these disparate vendors and nobody can access the data in any...

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Time running out to register for Mark Cuban event

Note: The Skinny blog is written by Rick Smith, editor and co-founder of Local Tech Wire and business editor of WRAL.com. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – It’s not too late to register for the chance to meet and talk entrepreneurship with Mark Cuban, the “dot com” billionaire owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks who also is an investor in startups. Cuban headlines Local Tech Wire’s Executive Exchange event on venture capital and entrepreneurship in Durham at the American Tobacco Historic District on Thursday. Southern Capitol Ventures and Intersouth Partners, two of the region’s top VC firms, are working with...

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NBA Mavericks owner to talk business with RTP entrepreneurs

Note: The Skinny blog is written by Rick Smith, editor and co-founder of Local Tech Wire and business editor of WRAL.com. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Mark Cuban, the headliner for Local Tech Wire’s Executive Exchange event next week, won’t be coming to the Triangle as owner of Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers. But he came oh, so close. "I wish them the best," Cuban said early Thursday morning after Cuban and his team lost out in the bidding for the Rangers to a group led by Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan. The complex negotiations in bankruptcy court didn’t...

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