Darren Herman

Every so often, I like to write posts on this blog that list potential new business opportunities.  Some of these opportunities in the the past have included mobile phone wipes, virtual world real-estate agents, virtual good trading platforms, amongst others.
I was first exposed to fantasy sports back in the 90s with the online Small World [...]

Lots of exciting events in the next few weeks including Web2.0, @ShakeShack and the following week, Advertising Week.  I try to be extremely selective about which events I chose to attend as I learned early in my career that it’s extremely costly and most of the time, extremely redundant to attend two of similar events [...]

Varick Media Management, New York, was formed by MDC Partners, Toronto, whose holdings include Crispin Porter & Bogusky and Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners. Varick is being formed to provide digital media management services for online exchanges. Varick opens with the Media Kitchen media agency, part of Kirshenbaum Bond, and its client roster. Darren Herman was [...]

Hindsight is 20/20.  Right?
There are times that when we look back, we think we would have made a different decision.  In today’s Mercury News, Scott Harris wrote about deals that got away.  If you’ve not seen Bessemer’s Anti-Deals page, certainly check that out as well.

David Cowan is a successful Silicon Valley venture capitalist whose credits [...]

I was digging around Path101’s website this evening to see what Charlie and the team were up to and dug deep into the Resume Genome Project.
What is this?
We’ve been crawling the web gathering up resumes and industry information. What you see here is our first take at analyzing and visualizing it.
We hope you’ll explore industries, [...]

The economic climate that we are in is having an effect on Silicon Alley/Valley. Many of the companies (dot com or others) are generating revenue through subscriptions, advertising, affiliate and such, which is being affected by the cut-back in spending both from consumers and corporations (ad spend or otherwise).
Om Malik posted on Why [...]

I’m a big fan of Springwise, Iconoculture, and other trend watching/forecasters. While each of these sites are the opinion of the person writing, they recognize interesting things happening in the world that at a minimum, are interesting.
In my inbox on Monday Morning, Trendwatching sent it’s Special Edition: “Innovation Avalanche” 41 global business [...]

Something really fascinating happened today.
We brought together Madison Avenue and Silicon Alley/Valley at our first annual The Media Kitchen Digital Media Venture Capital Conference (say that 4 times fast). Having spent the better part of my life building digital media startups, I noticed that there was a huge divide between what is happening in [...]

One of my colleagues in the office told me about a website statistics service named Woopra (he knows I love quantitative data). I had not heard about it prior, so I went a did a little research around the Internet about it. Apparently, it launched on/around May 30 2008, as it’s relatively new, [...]

PaidContent has released their second installment of their Social Media Deals Report.  The team has analyzed a 15 month period starting January 2007 and reports on estimated value, categories, and trends.  You can order the report here.
Below is a chart and some statistics from the report:
VC Investments:
– Total number of investments: 400
– Total number of [...]