9: The Cult of the Amateur - Interview with Andrew Keen My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

Authored by Andrew keen

Featured title: The Cult of the Amateur:How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values

>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.

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Listen to this interview to learn

The inside story on audiocafe.com, an early Silicon Valley Internet start-up.
The single most important key to a start-up succeeding.
How the market will tell you the brutal truth about your company or idea, and why it’s best to learn it sooner rather than later.
What’s lost through participation in Internet communitites in terms of human relationships.

Expert Bio

Andrew Keen, is an entrepreneur, writer, broadcaster and public speaker. He is the author of the international hit CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How the Internet is Killing our Culture, which was short-listed for the Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year Award. As a pioneering Silicon Valley based Internet entrepreneur, Andrew founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a popular first generation Internet music company.

He is currently the host of the “Keen On” show on TechCrunch TV, where he interviews leading opinion makers from the worlds of technology, media and policy. Andrew is also an acclaimed speaker on the international circuit, speaking regularly on the impact of new technology on 21st century business, education and society. Andrew’s new book about the social media revolution, Digital Vertigo: An Anti-Social Manifesto, is coming out in 2012.

For more information, visit Andrew’s website.