I didn’t see the article about Mark Cuban (don’t car much for ValleyWag). On the other hand, I did take the time recently to collect several of Cuban’s posts (on Blogmaverick) about Success & Motivation and print them out.

He’s pretty honest about a lot of his failings and stumbles on the way to success. When I get done reading it I’ll let my older kids read it, too. It’s encouraging, esp. since I remember reading his articles back before he sold Broadcast.com.

Everybody makes mistakes, and if you’re an entrepreneur, being misunderstood and criticized (for either the mistakes or the misunderstanding) is a basic part of the job description. Still, why don’t people take pot shots at all the folks who AREN’T taking risks!

BTW, while writing this I wasn’t really thinking about what you wrote about eBay, but it was good you went back and edited in an apology.

When you get older you realize that while it’s easy to criticize, there’s usually all sorts of hidden reasons why things are the way they are. Not that it’s right for them to be that way, but people are a lot more rational than we think!

That said, I’d agree that eBay really needs to change. I was a loyal half.com user until they bought and basically wrecked that (now Amazon is getting pretty competitive in that area).

One more thing – actually what prompted to check your blog was you had mentioned the Claremont colleges and I just ran across a blog by another entrepreneur with a similar story to yours, Ben Casnocha. I heard about his book a while back but haven’t seen it yet.

Anyway, good luck with your college search.