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Dan Burstein (editor) launched Squibnocket Partners as an innovative creative content development company in 2003 with his business partner, Arne J. de Keijzer. In 2004, they created the Secrets series, which, in addition to Secrets of the Code (first published in 2004), now includes Secrets of Angels & Demons (2004), Secrets of the Widow's Son (2005), and Secrets of Mary Magdalene (fall of 2006). Secrets books have found a place as the leading secular multiperspective guidebooks, appearing on the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, as well as other bestseller lists around the world. Taken together, the Secrets books now have more than two million copies in print in twenty-eight countries. A documentary film based on Secrets of the Code is currently in the works.
Maintaining an active full-time career as a venture capitalist (his "day job") in addition to his involvement with the Secrets series, Burstein is founder and managing partner of Millennium Technology Ventures, a New York–based venture capital firm that invests in innovative technology companies. He has served on the boards of more than a dozen early-stage companies and is currently a director of Applied Minds, a leading-edge research lab, and the Global Options Group, a publicly traded international risk management company. From 1988 to 2000, he was senior advisor at The Blackstone Group, one of Wall Street's leading private merchant banks. He is also a prominent corporate strategy consultant and has served as an advisor to CEOs, senior management teams, and global corporations including Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, Boardroom Inc., and Sun Microsystems.
Burstein is also an award-winning journalist and author of numerous books on global economics and technology. His most recent technology-related book is BLOG! How the Newest Media Revolution Is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture, co-written with David Kline. Burstein's 1988 book Yen!, about the rise of Japanese financial power, was an international bestseller in more than twenty countries. In 1995, his book Road Warriors was one of the first to analyze the impact of the Internet and digital technology on business and society. His 1998 book Big Dragon, written with Arne J. de Keijzer, outlined a long-term view of China's role in the twenty-first century that has, so far, turned out to be prescient.
Working as a freelance journalist in the 1980s, Mr. Burstein published more than a thousand articles in over two hundred publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Paris Match, Le Nouvel Observateur, L'Expansion, and many others in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He also served as a consultant to ABC News, CBS News, Time magazine, and other leading media organizations. Burstein has appeared on numerous TV documentaries and news specials, ranging from the History Channel to Charlie Rose, CNN, and Oprah.
Arne de Keijzer (managing editor) is a writer, former China business consultant, and Dan Burstein’s partner in Squibnocket Partners LLC. He is author of three books under his name, including two books on doing business with China and a bestselling travel guide to China. Additionally, he has written four books with Dan Burstein, most recently as co-editor of Secrets of Angels & Demons. He was also a contributing editor to BLOG! How the Newest Media Revolution Is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture, The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Internet Economy (one of the Best Things Ever Said titles from Squibnocket Press), and Big Dragon: China’s Future—What It Means for Business, the Economy, and the Global Order. His work has also appeared in a wide range of publications, from Powerboat Reports tothe New York Times.