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Darren Herman
Personal blog · darrenherman.combusinessstartups
Darren Herman's personal blog at darrenherman.com covers business and startups. Since 2007, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “Y Combinator Ad Innovation Conference - PG's Keynote Breakdown”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Herman's posts on startup hub rankings, Y Combinator, and startup ad spending, mostly as sources for their own points or to say they had already read them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Darren Herman explores the white space between marketing, advertising, content and technology. He is an angel investor and senior executive within Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley.
Most-linked posts?
- Y Combinator Ad Innovation Conference - PG's Keynote Breakdown2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-15
- Are You an Ad Supported Startup? - Analysis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-11-25
- Where Are the Tech Startups?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-04-07
What Hacker News says?
Absolutely. "Creativity as a service". I envision a lot of startups in the near future revolving around this model. Maybe we'll plug into a facebook-like universal AI-api (by apple?), and build 'creativity generator' apps that use chunks of hyper-personal data. PG recently spoke about how, in the future, creativity would have to be 'generated'.( http://www.darrenherman.com/2011/09/14/ycombinator-ad-innova... ) Once…
Comment linking /2011/09/14/ycombinator-ad-innovation-conference-keynote-breakdown/
on “iPhone 5 Keynote Predictions: Mainstreaming AI?”Submitted Y Combinator Ad Innovation Conference - PG's Keynote Breakdown as a story · 12 points
HN discussionYou're in luck -- the last version of YC news on archive.org had it! http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/04/04/where-are-the-tech-st... The O'Reilly Radar post is here: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/startup_centers.ht... The numbers are a year old but Seattle was #3 and NYC was #4. Although Tacoma is grouped in with Seattle, I'm not sure how meaningful that is -- it's kind of like grouping Oakland with Moun…
Comment linking /2007/04/04/where-are-the-tech-startups/
on “Number 3 Startup Hub? ”Submitted The New Scene in NYC for Entrepreneurs as a story · 12 points
HN discussionLinking to a social news site from a social news site makes the internet cry. Direct link: http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/10/26/what-to-buy-an-entrep...
Comment linking /2007/10/26/what-to-buy-an-entrepreneur-for-the-holidays/
on “What To Buy an Entrepreneur for the Upcoming Holidays”Submitted An Early Stage Entrepreneur's Guide to New York City as a story · 12 points
HN discussionHa, I knew I read that post already over at http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/11/25/i-want-my-slice-of-th...
Comment linking /2007/11/25/i-want-my-slice-of-the-pie-a-look-at-startups-and-ad-spending/
on “I Want My Slice of the Pie: A Look at Startups and Ad Spending”Submitted A must read for all entrepreneurs. Let's get past the "no" as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are You an Ad Supported Startup? - Analysis as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entrepreneurs Burn Out.... It's Going to Happen To You as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Are the Tech Startups? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2008 Trends & Forecasts for Digital Media - the UBER list as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups: Financial Markets Impact? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Penny Gap - In-Depth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook Friends vs. Second Life Islands - they are similar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analytics & Marketing - A look into Britney Spears as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ari Gold of Video Games: Entrepreneurship Opportunity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Venture Capital Bubble Looming? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cookies Will Become Brownies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Search is bought, not sold as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 64% of Digital Ad Spend Controlled by 5 Companies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fantasy Sports Business Opportunity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overheard at CES 2008 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Kid's Human - entrepreneurial mistakes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyperdistribution for Media Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conversion Attribution - Which Ad Is Converting for You? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advertising Everywhere the way of the future? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dot Com Deadpool Fund as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sponsored Startup: A Look at Path101 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ideas are a Commodity - Entrepreneurship is about Execution as a story · 1 points
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