Darren Herman

6 years ago, I was in the heart of the NYC entrepreneurial scene.  It was a very quiet scene.  Charlie O’Donnell was over at Union Square getting his venture capital learnings on, Naveen was over at Sony, and Nate was building Bricabox, and Galpert hadn’t even started conquering the art world with Aviary.  To put it [...]

A much smarter man than I said that competing with big companies is much easier than small companies.  Big companies are hard to pivot and change; so they either acquire you (good for investors) or you bring them down.  Actually, he said that today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference today in New York City.  His [...]

A short and sweet thought inspired by Mark Cuban’s latest posting on Google TV.
If we are finally in the early days of television/digital convergence, then Google is going to want to leverage their PageRank (probably needs a new name) algorithm to help TV viewers find content.
If you are thinking of getting into SEO, figuring out [...]

I’m taking que from Seth Godin and keeping my posts shorter and more succinct and hopefully this will spur more frequent updates.  Let me know your thoughts if you get a chance.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about the issues around short vs. long term vision and incentives and the interplay between them.  Let me start out [...]

I think society is trained to equate CTO (Chief Technology Officer) with the formal corporation.  In many corporations, CTO’s are certainly needed and they play a vital role.
In your personal life (outside the office), who is your CTO?   In many cases, the CTO is yourself or a trusted friend.   Choosing technology is almost a self [...]

While I haven’t quite been in the early stage entrepreneurial scene lately from an entrepreneurs point of view, I’ve been working with many early stage startups on both their marketing/go-to-market strategy and corporate strategies (fundraising, biz strategy).
On the way into the city this morning, I was listening to Squawk Box on XM Radio and they [...]

If you follow the tech space or watch the evening news, you will have heard/read that Apple is charging initial iPad advertisers millions of dollars to be the first marketers on their devices as part of the iAd product rollout.
Journalists (inclusive of bloggers) initially highlighted the price tag in most of their rants as very [...]