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Please Kill Me (Review)

Post author By karlschmieder
Post date April 7, 2018
Categories In 100 Days of Writing, 3x5, Advertising, Book Reviews, Brooklyn, Influences, interviews, Music, NYC, Science Fiction, Writing
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Pedro Paramo is the book I’ve most given away. It’s a thin, easy to read, very influential novel. It will haunt you. The second book I’ve most given away is Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Through a series of alternating interviews, PKM traces the history of punk. From New […]

Product Market Fit

Post author By karlschmieder
Post date January 24, 2018
Categories In 3x5, Book Reviews, Marketing, messagingLAB, Observations, Writing
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To paraphrase, Lean Startup author Eric Reis, “We can build any product. The question is: Will anyone buy it?” True Story: She is developing a new chip set. It’s revolutionary in its design and potential applications. When I ask about customers, she answers, “We’re building a platform, like the app store.” When I ask about […]