Darren Herman
Marketing, Media, and Technology Conversations
Category: Internet & Web X.0

I was doing some research for a forthcoming post I’m writing and came across some fun charts. See below – you can see where the opportunity is (and isn’t).

This post is inspired by Fred Wilson’s recent post entitled, Does Price Matter.  When you purchase a product or service, it has a price tag associated with it.  That price tag is based on what the seller wants to make (cost + profit) based on what they think they could sell to their anticipated target [...]

Image via Wikipedia Here’s a startup idea that I think is ripe.  Time is now. Lets try and learn from the past and apply it to the future. Alta Vista, Excite, Yahoo!, Overture, Dogpile, InfoSpace, Metacrawler, Gopher, Ask Jeeves, Webcrawler, Bing, Google (and many others) all evolved the way that we search for information.  Gone [...]

Image via CrunchBase This post shouldn’t come across as another “I’ve quit [replace with service] because [xyz].”  There have been way too many of those type of posts and I don’t want to be another log on the fire. I’m in the process of unsubscribing from the Groupons of this world because in aggregate they [...]

As most of you know, I’m a huge fantasy football junkie.  I spend a disproportionate amount of my time on Sunday mornings getting my lineups ready based on research I’ve done during the week thru various forms:  XM Radio Fantasy Football Channel, FFLibrarian, Rotowire (Subscription), The Huddle (Subscription), and even simply talking to players. I stumbled across [...]

One of my guaranteed impulse buy categories are books.  I’m a sucker.  If there is a book that I think might want to read, I’ll buy it; even if I’m half way thru a current book and still have 5 new ones sitting on the table. 99.9% of my books are paperback/hardcover (non-digital) and 90% of those [...]

It’s that time of year again; time to devote your late morning weekends to setting and locking your fantasy football rosters in order to win the weekend’s matchups.  I write this post each year at the beginning of the season and it’s fun to go back to see previous posts and see how things have [...]

I have really enjoyed watching all of the innovation over the past few years and wanted to highlight a few areas that I think are really interesting for 2010/2011.  In some cases, I may use company names as examples;  unless otherwise noted, I am not an investor in any of these companies and this is [...]

One of the most amazing things about starting a business is being able to provide career opportunities for people at all stages of their life.  I’ve listed a few opportunities below and if  you or someone you know is interested in one of these, please do not hesitate to reach out.  The company is Varick [...]

These guys get it and are for real.  I’ve known Mike Duda (@mikeduda) for a few years now and he’s onto something.  Let me explain why I think they have an opportunity to help create a new type of investor class that adds real strategic value. The Front Man Who doesn’t want to take a [...]