Sitemap - 2021 - The Hard Fork by Marvin Liao
"Our Brand is Crisis": Valuable Lessons from a Fictional Political Campaign
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 26th, 2021
Mental Health is About Protecting Your Company’s Most Important Asset: YOU as the Founder
Scaling is F—Ng Hard: Hard Lessons Hard Earned
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 19th, 2021
Building, Managing and Living by Values: The Importance of Principles
Startup Now!: Entrepreneurship is the Ultimate Vehicle for Personal Development
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 12th, 2021
Hustle versus Calm: A Call for a New Way of Building Startups
A Walk Down Memory Lane: Using the Past to Improve your Future
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Dec 5th, 2021
The Biggest Loser: Wasted Time & Wasted Potential
Amateurs talk Strategy, Professionals talk Logistics: the Critical Importance of Supply Chains
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 28th, 2021
Pity the Loud, Rude and Belligerent: External Behavior as the Ultimate Tell
Everybody Wants to be a Gangster, Till its Time to Do Gangster SH-T
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 21st, 2021
Errors of Omission, or Errors of Commission: Some Lessons from Hundreds of Startup Investments
Freedom is Never Free: Earning an Exit and Building a Global Lifestyle
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 14th, 2021
No Pain, No Gain: The Hard Truth of Life
The Perpetual Outsider: The Big Benefits of Not Belonging
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Nov 7th, 2021
Local Maximum Versus Global Maximum: Lessons for non-US Startups
WAGMI & GMI over NGMI: Building the World You Want to Live In
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 31st, 2021
Keep it Simple, Stupid: Focussing on the Basics
The Biggest Little Farm: Lessons for Life from Nature
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 24th, 2021
Food Porn: What We Can Learn from Japan
Environmental Awareness, Breakpoints, Pride & Red Lines: Lessons for Life and Investing
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 17th, 2021
Your Inside Game is More Important than the Outside Game
The Extremes of America: Why It’s both the Best & Worst Country on the Planet
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 10th, 2021
The Cycle of Life: Career, Crisis and Family
Rip the Bandage Off NOW: There is No Better Time for Personal Change
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Oct 3rd, 2021
Iron Versus Gold: Learning to Love Good Times and Bad Times
Consistency is King & Queen in Startups, Business & Life
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 26th, 2021
Self Sovereignty Versus Growing Government: Why You Need Citizenship Insurance
Lessons, Not Regrets: Missing Life Changing Wealth Multiple times
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 19th, 2021
The Dangers of Hedonic Adoption to Your Personal Finances
The Future of Work & the inevitable Rise of Entrepreneurship
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 12th, 2021
Make your Life an Adventure: Lessons from “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Scale Kills Quality: Big is the Enemy of Great
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads Sept 5th, 2021
Adapt or Die: My Personal Life Lessons from "Downton Abbey"
EDM DJs: The Bleeding Edge and Early Model for Creator Economy Entrepreneurs
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 29th, 2021
The Practitioner Preacher Model
Be Perfect: Inspiration from “Friday Night Lights”
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 22nd, 2021
Dogma is Death for the Brain: There is No One Single Way to Do Something
Deadlines, Deadlines & Big Public Deadlines: The Key to Personal Productivity
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 15th, 2021
The Vision Board Exercise: A Tool for Progress & Personal Growth
Back to the Future: Modern Entrepots and the Rise of the City-States
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 8th, 2021
Everyone will be a Creator, a Business and an Investor: The New Global Entrepreneurial Generation
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads August 1st, 2021
Check Yourself Before you Wreck Yourself
Outsiders versus Insiders Drive the Cycle of Innovation
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 25th, 2021
Environment Matters: Location, Location, Location
The Next Decade: Reformation and Renaissance Framework
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 18th, 2021
The Aggregation of Marginal Gains: No Such thing as Overnight Success
The Power of the Conscious and Subconscious Mind: Language, Programming and Mindset Matters
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 11th, 2021
The Rise of Edtech: One BIG result of the 2020 Pandemic
Business does not need to be Busy-ness: the rise of Calm businesses
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads July 4th, 2021
You Earn the Right to Grow: Commitment, Focus and Prioritization
Mixing & Remixing: On Personal Identity and Reinvention
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 27th, 2021
Gaming is the Extreme Frontier of Business: Time Machine Investing and Operating
Have Fun Getting Kidnapped: Why Stealth, Privacy & Pseudonymity is the Future
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 20th, 2021
“Cause My Life is Dope and I Do Dope Sh-t!”
Eat the Frog As Early as Possible in Your Career
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 13th, 2021
The Pitfalls of Operators as Investors
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads June 6th, 2021
Bubble or Revolution: Why Not Both?
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 30th, 2021
The Future of Work: Are You Above or Below the Algorithm?
Riches Among “Supposed” Ruins: The New Era of Globe Trotting Capitalists
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 23rd, 2021
Let the Sleeper Awake!: Change and Discomfort is Growth
Financial Independence is Personal Independence: How to Become More Sovereign
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 16th, 2021
Builders as Venture Capitalists: The Paypal Mafia leading the Charge (as always!)
Hard Times Breed Hard People: Necessity Facilitates Innovation & Opportunity
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 9th, 2021
How to Make "Remote Work" Work for you
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads May 2nd, 2021
Time Management in the Age of Leverage: Filters for Prioritization
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 25th, 2021
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 18th, 2021
Fundraising is Supposed to be Hard!
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 11th, 2021
The Theory of Constraints for Startups: A Prioritization Mechanism
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads April 4th, 2021
“Growth Investing” Versus “Value Investing” Style in Venture Capital
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 28th, 2021
Watch the Next Big Frontier: Africa
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 21st, 2021
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 14th, 2021
Proximity is Power & Other Nuggets of Insight from Shaan Puri
Are you on a Bridge or a Pier?
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads March 7th, 2021
Safe is Unsafe, Unsafe is Safe: Managing Risk
The 5 Phases of Countries & Companies
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 28th, 2021
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 21th, 2021
Why the Best & Most Accomplished People are Spikey
Missionaries Versus Mercenaries
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 14th, 2021
Laid, Made or Paid: The Drivers of Consumer Product Adoption
Engineering Outcomes: How Silicon Valley is becoming more like Wall Street (in a Good Way)
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads February 7th, 2021
There are Many Different Paths to Building a Business (aka Startups)
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 31st, 2021
Direct Line to Revenue is What Matters for your Startup (and your Career)
Galapagos Island Effect in Technology: Japan, China & South Korea
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 24th, 2021
Startups Die of Suicide, Not Murder
What are the Traits of the Best Startup Founders
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 17th, 2021
Revenue Forecasts & Projections for Seed Stage Startups ????
Importance of Differentiation: The Fight Against Monoculture
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 10th, 2021
Flash is Trash: Go Stealth in a K-shaped Economy
Alt-VC: How the Shine is off Venture Capital and New Models of Startup Financing
Marvin’s Best Weekly Reads January 3rd, 2021
The Gartner Hype Cycle & Trough of Disillusionment for Investing: