Darren Herman

I don’t know if the word “premium” is right for the header, but couldn’t come up with another term.
I use @gmail for my personal emails.  I also send the inquiries from this blog to that @gmail account.  The problem I have is that I don’t pay Google.  It’s less about paying Google for my email, [...]

This is one of the first guest posts I’ve had in a long time, potentially years.  It’s by Taylor Davidson, who is my colleague at kbs+p Ventures.  It originally appeared yesterday in his premium newsletter entitled, “From Me to You.”  I highly recommend that you subscribe to it, if you are interested in startups, finance, [...]

Back in March, I was randomly contacted (thru this blog) by the executive editor of a book publishing company.  He wanted to use one of my blog posts from 2008 as a basis for a chapter in his upcoming book, Creating a Bu$iness You’ll Love.   I didn’t really see a downside to this so [...]

First, let me start off by saying that any opportunity for a startup to showcase it’s “wares” is a good thing.  An idea in a vacuum is never a good thing and getting on stage in front of a group of people to tell your story could put your startup on the map, depending on who is [...]

3+ month assignment.  Could go much longer, depending on the fit.  Could go much shorter, depending on the fit.
I’m looking for a hybrid 30% visionary, 70% executor who has demonstrated entrepreneurial ability within the advertising technology or financial technology markets.  You should have a passion for media trading and at least a working knowledge of [...]

Today’s opening keynote was given by Paul Graham, at the YCombinator Ad Innovation Conference in Mountain View.  I attended along with @tdavidson and @barryl530 to see the early stage innovation that’s happening in the ad tech space.  We were certainly impressed not just with the innovation but with the amount of great agencies in attendance [...]

I’ve been noodling the opportunity around an ad tech dream I had.  Yes, I really do dream about these things.
We all know the positions that Yahoo! and AOL are in.  I won’t go into that here, other than they will need to make some short term decisions rather quickly.
As a proactive entrepreneur, what if you [...]

This past week, I tweeted the following:  ”the data itself isn’t overly interesting.  the application of data is what is fascinating.”

This wasn’t the first time I tweeted something along these lines and if you’ve heard me speak publicly (or inside the agency) over the past few years, I’ve probably touched upon the topic, if not spoken all [...]