Darren Herman

Some of my friends over at DeSilva+Phillips a boutique investment bank (also known as MediaBankers) have just released a white paper (links to the PDF) entitled Getting Real.  I am always skeptical about investment bank led white papers (unless they are presentations by Mary Meeker which I love) but these guys pulled off a pretty [...]

For those who are unfamiliar, my wife runs the website, ResumeGal.com.  ResumeGal was created when she left the corporate HR world and decided to stay home to take care of our child and wanted to still consult with people who needed resume/HR help and coaching.
I’m trying an experiment down here in Austin to post 5 [...]

I’m writing this post about 2.5 hours before the first panel/session kicks off for SXSW 2010.  For those who are not familiar with SXSW, it’s a conference split into three areas: Interactive, Film, and Music.  I’m only down for the first few days of Interactive but in previous years, I’ve participated in the music portion [...]

I’m heading down to SXSWi on Thursday and am excited to go.  It seems as though most of the NYC entrepreneurial scene will be down there so it’ll be the same faces in a different setting (way better BBQ, sorry @lazerow re: Hill Country).
I created my initial schedule and have made it public – so [...]

For the past 72 hours, I’ve been forced offline due to the powerful storm that ripped across the Northeast.   For those who are writing this off as just another snow storm, it might have been in your neck of the woods but where my family is located, we were hit with over 30″ of [...]

If you’ve been around me long enough, you’ll hear me either say “history repeats itself” or “it’s the same cupcake with different sprinkles.”  With many of web 2.0’s kids not around during the boom and bust of web 1.0, I highly recommend reading this post and keeping it in mind while entrepreneuring.
The most important lesson [...]

I’m in the middle of doing some research for a blog posting I’d like to write this weekend and came across some articles written about my favorite zine of the 90s – Silicon Alley Reporter.  For those unfamiliar with SAR, it was the newsletter/magazine that the entire trade read and helped fuel much of the [...]

It’s a bold statement in the title, but I believe that the only traditional television programming to exist in the future are based around live events.  Unless Ticketmaster/Livenation create a live concert channel which I would assume is not out of the realm of possibilities, I think ESPN and it’s associated brothers/sister channels will lead [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about content consumption lately.  The main reason for this is because for me, it’s broken.  Sub-optimal.   There is no way I can keep up with everything that is actively passed my way and passively written that I may want to consume.
There are a few reasons for this:

Not enough time [...]

Being that I work in the digital media industry, there is rarely a day that goes by without some conversation around free vs. paid.  Some folks in the office say that they would gladly pay ~$20 for the NY Times online and others argue that they won’t pay anything because eventually they will hear the [...]