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Re: Web3: Wallets Needed

Darren Herman — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:04:14 -0000

Love this post Albert. I smiled while reading the AOL discs and Microsoft comment. I completely agree that we need this moment... feels like mobile platforms will bring it forward. Or, social platforms (e.g. TikTok). Feels like large reach platforms have easiest path to distribution.

Re: Grinding

Darren Herman — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 19:35:29 -0000

Completely agree. Time + execution. The only downside is when you are short on time or lack executional skills.

Re: Getting Out Of Town

Darren Herman — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 09:42:09 -0000

Safe travels! Enjoy some much deserved R&R

Re: Fifteen Years

Darren Herman — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:22:52 -0000

Fred, congratulations and thank you. You've been an inspiration to my career and the way you treat this blog has had a profound impact on how I go-to-market. I love how you test your hypothesis naked and in the open, something that I've adopted , and inspired by you. You are a true stand up gentleman and are an inspiration to many of us. Keep doing what you do. You have a loyal following much larger than you know.

Re: Paris

Darren Herman — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:51:26 -0000

Paris is a beautiful and rich city in many ways. I've experienced those Labor Laws before in a previous life and they do make it hard to quickly scale up or down but the protection for the citizens is incredible. Talk about a "people first" culture.

Re: Sign All Things

Darren Herman — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 21:57:17 -0000

so when you fund a company in this space, let me know and I'll certainly be on their alpha list to use them :)

Re: Sign All Things

Darren Herman — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 21:08:30 -0000

Yes. One of the issues I'm having lately is around email and phone call trust. Spoofing and phishing are done at such a high quality these days that I am loosing trust with my incoming emails from my banks and other institutions of similar importance. I received a phone call from my bank recently and refused to have the conversation because I couldn't verify that they were my actual bank. This is an issue.

Re: Why Tesla can leapfrog rivals without spending big on advertising - Digiday

Darren Herman — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 07:44:39 -0000

The amazing part of Tesla too is it's community. You should check out the dozens of websites that the community have put together to help each other, answer questions, and share insight into electric cars and specifically, the Roadster, Model S, Model 3, and the Power Wall.

Re: The newest rainmaker at publishers: E-commerce editors - Digiday

Darren Herman — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 07:42:39 -0000

What I'm curious to see is how publishers can write these posts without losing the trust of it's readers. As a reader, I consistently question why products are mentioned in posts and makes me skeptical as a reader.

Re: Work Life Balance

Darren Herman — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:17:12 -0000

Love the post. I bring my wife when I can. Makes the trips much more enjoyable. Welcome home!

Re: My Business Insider Story… and The Death of TV of Course

Darren Herman — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:23:18 -0000

Congrats Howard!

Re: Debating the Gig Economy: Going Past Industrial Thinking

Darren Herman — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:54:49 -0000

This is an area that I'm starting to pay more attention to. You are certainly leading some of the thinking here. One of USV's portfolio companies, @assembly is doing some really interesting things as a means of participation into the gig economy.

Re: Ads that fit in

Darren Herman — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:33:18 -0000

That's our huge challenge - but we feel that if you give the user the control, provide it transparently... you'll ultimately gain their trust.

Re: Ads that fit in

Darren Herman — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:32:36 -0000

That's what we're focused on and it's a fine line. Especially doing it with all of the privacy principles of Mozilla. But we're onto something...

Re: Manchester Vermont – Our Winter Kingdom

Darren Herman — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:12:17 -0000

I'm sure it would go far. do it!

Re: Manchester Vermont – Our Winter Kingdom

Darren Herman — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:12:08 -0000

We might have been up there then too. We love the town.

Re: How VRM works

Darren Herman — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:56:25 -0000

Right on Dave. Doc's book, The Intention Economy is a good read too. Priceline.com is a good-ish example of a public company in this space.

Re: Organizing Knowledge Around Basic Concepts

Darren Herman — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:20:20 -0000

Been enjoying Wayfinder - easy to eplain concepts and ideas using a route. Example is Internet of Things: http://wayfinder.co/pathway...

I am open to talking to companies in this space as well - as we @Mozilla/@firefox look to add new content driven features to our products.

Re: Feature Friday: Voice Posting

Darren Herman — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:22:33 -0000

I remember going to CompUSA to purchase the voice recognition software packages that were always big (size) and pricey ($$$$). They came with headphones and all sorts of dictation restrictions/needs. Isn't it amazing at how much simpler it's become? Instead of $499 software packages, it's now native to your device. I'd imagine it still can improve, but at least it's huge leaps over yesteryears.

Re: Celebrities in Connected Networks - The Gong Show

Darren Herman — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:34:23 -0000

Good post Andrew. I'm going to come at this from the vector of influencer/celebrity from an advertising or marketing POV. At my previous agency, we were working on the launch of a certain electric vehicle about 2-3 years ago. In order to do this, we wanted to do a campaign that didn't use "paid advertising" but rather influence and celebrity to raise awareness for the new line of car launch (from a very well established auto brand).

When we did all of our social media runs to see who was most influential across electric vehicles or the future of mobility, it wasn't the "mass celebrities" that most people would recognize or assume.... but it was academics, niche bloggers, and other "network" driven celebrities that certainly had a name within their community.

.... and we worked with those leaders and launched the car... and did phenomenal. If we had relied on pure big-name celebs, I don't know definitively, but I have to assume that it would not have worked as well - or even good at all.

I think there is something truly valuable in "network" based celebrities. Federated Media started out this way, repping blogs + bloggers and getting them involved with brands for their audiences. There has to be much more opportunity here.

Re: Are You a Mozillian?

Darren Herman — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:19:12 -0000

Noted. We're working on that!

Re: Are You a Mozillian?

Darren Herman — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:56:58 -0000

thanks Kevin!

Re: What an interesting angle Linkedin is pursuing… | The Slow Hunch

Darren Herman — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:21:52 -0000

Nick, we'd welcome you over here.

Re: Ways of thinking about Google

Darren Herman — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:26:05 -0000

Nest plays into Google nicely.

It knows whether you are home or away.

it knows whether it's cold or hot.

Those are triggers that can provide context for advertising targeting. Spooky very.

Re: The New AVC

Darren Herman — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:13:18 -0000

@fredwilson step back for a second and look at this from a meta-perspective. Isn't it fascinating that you can build AVC with so much input from the community? This is one special place. We all care.