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Ben casnocha tech entrepreneur best selling author keynote speaker
Benedict T. Casnocha is an American writer and entrepreneur, based in San Francisco, California.
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- Ben casnocha tech entrepreneur best selling author keynote speaker
- How career builders choose the right path With Ben Casnocha and Ramit Sethi
- My Start Up Life
- The Start Up of You
- The Alliance
- References

Casnocha is founder of Comcate, an e-government technology firm, and the author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller The Start-Up of You.

He is a keynote speaker at many business events and conventions. He has appeared on The Charlie Rose Show and is a commentator on NPR’s Marketplace and in Newsweek. He has also written for the American Enterprise Institute and the U.S. State Department. Casnocha is also an advisor to venture capital firm Wasabi Ventures and a mentor at startup incubator Techstars.

In 2006, BusinessWeek named Casnocha one of America's best young entrepreneurs. Politics Online named him one of the "25 most influential people in the world of internet and politics."

How career builders choose the right path: With Ben Casnocha and Ramit Sethi
My Start-Up Life
My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on his Journey Through Silicon Valley was published on May 25, 2007 by Jossey-Bass. It recounts Casnocha’s founding of an e-government technology firm, Comcate.
The Start-Up of You
The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest In Yourself and Transform Your Career is Casnocha's second book. It is co-authored with Reid Hoffman, co-founder and Executive Chairman of professional social networking website LinkedIn and was released in the United States on February 14, 2012.
The Alliance
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age is Casnocha's third book. It is co-authored with investor Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman and was released in the United States on July 8, 2014.