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The Fish Rots from the Head

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 27th, 2020

Venture Fundable Businesses

Risks of Endowment Style Investing for Personal Finances:

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 20th, 2020

Operator-Investor Nano Funds are The Future (and Present)

Trends and Venture Capital Sheep-ism

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 13th, 2020

The Portfolio Entrepreneur

High Opportunity Places vs. High Quality of Life: The Trade Offs

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads December 6th, 2020

Old Man Yells at (Tech) Cloud

Media Company of One

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 29th, 2020

Why UX & Design Matter

Entering the Post Covid 19 World: Get to “Pole Position”

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 22nd, 2020

The Jungle, The Dirt Road & The Freeway:

The Sovereign Individual & The Idea of the Global Citizen Sandwich

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 15th, 2020

Remote is the New Silicon Valley

Airplane Arbitrage is Moneyball for Venture Capital

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 8th, 2020

Looking for Shiny Dimes

The American Main Street Economy Will be Rebuilt on Tech

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads November 1st, 2020

The Powerful Addiction of Variable Rewards

Why Gaming Industry is so interesting

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 25th, 2020

Platform Dependency is No longer Heresy in B2B

Play Against Rubes

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 18th, 2020

What Founders can learn from Investors

Foolishly Trading Time for Money in the Age of Leverage

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 11th, 2020

The Future is being Multi-Hyphen

“Action Creates Information”

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads October 4th, 2020

The “Red Test”

After Hardship Comes Happiness

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 27th, 2020

The Importance of Personal Brand in VC:

Work like a Lion, not like a Cow

SPAC Attack

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 20th, 2020

Silicon Valley Companies should NOT be Role Models for Management Systems

Why Career Promiscuity Is Important in Silicon Valley

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 13th, 2020

Business Development (BD) & Partnerships Make NO sense for most Seed Stage Startups

Turning of the Corkscrew: from Burn to Bust

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads September 6th, 2020

The Right Leader at the Right Place & Time (or NOT): The Crucible of History and Business

The Evolution of SaaS

Taiwan: The Hinge of the Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Arms Race

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 30th, 2020

The “Rise” & The “Grind”

Startups, Do the Foundational Work: Taking Shortcuts Cut You Short

The Master Plan of Gary Vaynerchuk

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 23rd, 2020

Startups Founders: Get an Executive Coach!

The “Launchpad” Business Concept

The Slow & Steady Unbundling (aka Democratization) of Venture Capital

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 16th, 2020

The Importance of “Fallow Time” aka Sabbaticals and Extended Breaks

Superman (or Superwoman) Syndrome

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 9th, 2020

Why Startups have the edge over most Big Company competitors

The Simplest Sales Framework Ever for Startups: The W3 Method

Meet the New King, Same as the Old King:

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 2nd, 2020

Surviving 5 Months of Quarantine (and Beyond):

Importance of Etiquette as a Savviness-Signal in Silicon Valley

Lessons from the “Black Death” in the Middle Ages & Its’ Relevance for us in the Modern Post Covid World

Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 26, 2020

Why Most Celebrities (Hollywood, Professional Sports, Music Stars) Suck as Startup Investors

Why Most Founders Don’t Take Good Advice

Marvin's Favorite Weekly Reads (Normally Sunday)

Culture is the Company and the Founder is the Culture

Keep Pushing & Keep Fighting:

The Magical Power of Your Environment and Who You Surround Yourself With

Lessons from the “Forrest Gump” of Silicon Valley

“Fast Money” versus “Dumb Money” versus “Smart Money”

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