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<!-- --><HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Adrian Scott</TITLE> <script language="javascript"> notover = new Image; notover.src = "adrianarrow.gif"; over = new Image; over.src = "adrianarrowy.gif"; </script> <META name=description content="Adrian Scott"> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="napster"> </HEAD> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" topmargin="0" background="adrianback.gif" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" alink="#fdc009" link="#1f4ee6" vlink="#29219c"> <table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0> <tr> <td colspan=2 HEIGHT="140"><img SRC="adriantopback.gif" width=423 height=140></td> </tr> <tr> <td WIDTH="140" valign=top background="adriansideback.gif"><img src="adrianphotoback.gif" height=80 width=120> <font face=arial,helvetica size=-1> <a href="/">Adrian Scott . com</a><br><br> <font size=-1> <a href="/bio.php" onmouseover="button1.src=over.src" onmouseout="button1.src=notover.src" ><img name=button1 src="adrianarrow.gif" height=11 width=11 border=0>Bio</a><br> <a href="/press.php" onmouseover="button2.src=over.src" onmouseout="button2.src=notover.src"><img name=button2 src="adrianarrow.gif" height=11 width=11 border=0>Press Coverage</a><br> <a href="/clients.php" onmouseover="button3.src=over.src" onmouseout="button3.src=notover.src"><img name=button3 src="adrianarrow.gif" height=11 width=11 border=0>Past Clients</a><br> <a href="/writings.php" onmouseover="button4.src=over.src" onmouseout="button4.src=notover.src"><img name=button4 src="adrianarrow.gif" height=11 width=11 border=0>Writings</a><br> <a href="/contact.php" onmouseover="button5.src=over.src" onmouseout="button5.src=notover.src"><img name=button5 src="adrianarrow.gif" height=11 width=11 border=0>Contact</a><br> <a href="/links.php" onmouseover="button7.src=over.src" onmouseout="button7.src=notover.src"><img name=button7 src="adrianarrow.gif" height=11 width=11 border=0>Links</a><br> <br> </font> <a href="http://www.coderbuddy.com/">Coderbuddy</a><br> <a href="/finance/">Web of Finance</a><br> </TD> <TD valign=top> <center> <!-- napster --> <table><tr><td valign=top> </TD> <TD WIDTH=450> <? include("gwostart.php"); ?> <P> <font face=arial,helvetica size=+2>Hello, I'm Adrian Scott. <br/><br/> New links: <P> <a href=https://www.adrianscott.com/ target=_blank>My new blog at www.adrianscott.com</a> <p> <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scott_(entrepreneur) target=_blank>Wikipedia bio</a> <p> <a href=http://www.freedomstack.com/ target=_blank>Freedom Stack</a> <p> <a href=https://www.twitter.com/adrianscottcom target=_blank>Twitter profile</a> <P> <a href=https://www.instagram.com/adrianscottcom target=_blank>Instagram profile</a> <p> <a href=https://gab.com/adrianscottcom target=_blank>Gab.com profile</a> <p> <a href=https://www.liberland.org/en/ target=_blank>Liberland a new country</a> <P> </font> <b>Old stuff:</b> <p> I help build and deploy technology and social media/networking products for companies and startups. I am also a board member of Legitmix and an advisor to MyDream. I have a history of helping companies architect, build and ship software and Internet services. I am particularly interested in metrics-driven feedback loops, especially around behavior design and habit creation. <p> I most recently founded and built <a href=http://www.coderbuddy.com/>Coderbuddy</a>. Coderbuddy started out as a PAAS (platform as a service) enabling web-based development, testing and deployment of software applications to the cloud. We now work directly on helping startups and major technology companies build out technology and grow their metrics. We have a small team of developers and work with a limited number of companies at one time. <p> I have a business blog at <a href=http://www.testinggetsreal.com/ target=_blank>Testing Gets Real</a>. <p><!-- <a href=http://www.adrianscott.org/>Adrian Scott . org</a> is my personal blog. I'm in the process of launching a group blog, Code is Future, around tech industry and programming-related topics, both serious and fun.--> <P> I founded <a href="http://www.ryze.com/">Ryze</a>, a leading business networking service which pioneered the decade's social networking boom starting in 2001, heavily influencing Friendster, which in turn influenced MySpace and Facebook. <p> In the past, I built Internet technology for companies including Charles Schwab & Co., Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec and several startups. I later co-founded a startup called Flycode, which was formerly known as AppleSoup. I recruited most of the team and helped raise the nearly $4 million in funding. <p> I was a founding investor in Napster, angel investor in Giganet and BuyDirect.com (both successfully sold to publicly-traded companies), and advisor to Starmine, which was sold to Thomson Reuters. Prior to that I was a Cadet Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, at age 17, and earned a Math Ph.D. in nonlinear optimization from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at age 20. <p> Best wishes, <br> Adrian <br> <p> P.S. My Ryze page is <a href=http://www.ryze.com/go/adrian>here</a> <p> <br> <font face=arial size=+1>Interesting Things</font> <p> Some things I'm particularly interested in these days: <P> <b>Health Sciences</b>: Longevity, Ending Aging, Preventative Medicine, Nutrition, Exercise, Evolutionary Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Protein Folding <p> <b>Finance</b>: Behavioral Finance, Structure of Markets, Manias/Booms/Busts, Private Equity Transactions, History, Trading Systems, Investment Strategies <p> <b>Technology</b>: FPGA's, Dynamic Silicon, Storage, Caching, Microprocessors, Optics, Quantum Theory, MEMS, Databases, Software Development Standards <p> <br> <P> <br> <font face=arial size=+1>Liquidity</font> <p> Some of the companies I've invested in or advised that have had liquidity events: <p> <font face=arial><a href="return.php?from=http://www.adrianscott.com/&to=http://www.starmine.com/"><b>Starmine</b></a></font>, Measuring Analyst Performance, acquired by Thomson Reuters <p> <font face=arial><b>Plaxo</b></font>, acquired by ComCast <p> <font face=arial><a href="return.php?from=http://www.adrianscott.com/&to=http://www.giganet.com/"><b>Giganet</b></a></font>, acquired by publicly-traded Emulex <P> <font face=arial><b>BuyDirect.com</b></font>, acquired by a publicly-traded company <P> <br> <font face=arial size=+1>Affiliations</font> <p> <b><font face=arial>Webby Awards</font></b>, Nominating Judge, Finance Category and Member, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences <p> <b><font face=arial>George W. Bush Information Technology Advisory Council</font></b>, served on campaign advisory council <p> <br> <P> <h3> <font face=arial,helvetica> Back in the day... </font> </h3> <p> <center> <img src="carveradriangeorge.jpg"> <P> <blockquote><font face=arial size=-1>I enjoyed discussing bandwidth and caching at a dinner with Carver Mead and George Gilder back in the day</font></blockquote> </center> <? include("gwostartsection.php") ?> <!-- test --> <? include("gwoendsection.php") ?> </TD></TR></TABLE> </TD></TR></TABLE> <p><center> <i> adrian adrianscott.com </i> <p><br> </BODY></HTML> <? include("gwoend.php") ?>