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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

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Every business I've started, I would count the months in my profitable.

Do I have enough to pay the bills? I mean, I've been in the situation enough times with startups where the bill collectors were calling on a continuous basis.

And back then, you had answering machines, and it was like you didn't want to hit the button on the answer machine because, hello.

Mr. Mark Cuban, I've left 17 messages.

From NPR, it's how I built this.

A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Roz, and on today's show, how Mark Cuban figured out that something called the Internet was going to transform the economy

and how he turned that hunch into millions and then billions of dollars.

So if you know who Mark Cuban is, you've probably seen him on Shark Day.

Who are the sharks? They're self-made millionaire and billionaire investors who are entrepreneurs themselves.

And if you don't know the show, basically there's a panel of investors who are the sharks,

and they hear a bunch of pitches from people who are trying to start a business.

So do you like the idea, and would you want to see a net increase of 30 to 50% in your company?

Again, what was my question to you?

And when Mark Cuban is doing the judging, he didn't sometimes be kind of a jerk.

Of course I like the deal, which is why I offered you a chance to close it.

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