Dan Kieran

Dan is the author and editor of fourteen books, including the Sunday Times bestseller Crap Towns (the first viral internet phenomenon to turn into a bestselling book), The Idle Traveller (the bestselling Slow Travel: Die Kunst des Reisens in Germany), Three Men in a Float (the story of his journey across England in a 1957 electric milk float also recorded for BBC Radio 4) and Do Start: How to create and run a business (that doesn't run you). A travel writer for the Guardian, The Times and the Telegraph, he has given talks on a range of subjects including publishing, creative writing, fundraising, entrepreneurship and how to have ideas for places like The Idler, The Do Lectures and The European Parliament. He is also the co-founder of Unbound.com, the award-winning crowdfunding publishing platform that brings authors and readers together, and was its CEO for the first eleven years taking it from an idea to profitability. As well as writing books, he now teaches entrepreneurship at University College London (UCL) as part of their Publishing MA.

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