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Scott Duffy (born c. 1970) is an American Entrepreneur, Public speaker, Marketer and author known for his highly praised book LAUNCH! a guide on how to launch a successful business. He is also the founder of Smart Charter an online tool for private aviation, which was later acquired by Richard Branson's Virgin Group and was later renamed as Virgin Charter. He was a member of Entrepreneurs' Organization in Los Angeles from 2010 to 2012.

Early Life and Education
Born in Santa Monica, California, Scott earned his high school graduation from Loyola High School in 1988. He then attended the University of San Diego 1 year short of his graduation from 1988 to 1991. He met an accident when he was on a trip to Mexico with his 3 friends, he had some fatal injuries after which he was dropped out of school.

Early Years
Scott began his career working for best-selling author and speaker, Tony Robbins throughout North America when he was only 21. He conducted over 200 workshops in the areas of Sales training and Business development with small businesses to Fortune 500 companies by the age of only 21. He also worked for several other trainers that include Jim Rohn, Les Brown (speaker), Lou Holtz, Walter Sanford and others.

Internet Sales and Online Distribution
Scott left the training industry and entered into internet access business in 1994 with his college roommate. Initially he failed but he set some valuable goals for his future by getting exposure to some developing online sites of the time. While living in LA he took frequent trips to Bay Area for online business oportunities, which lead to his bankcruptcy. He then left LA and moved to the Bay Area and worked for the local domino's. Even in hard times Scott worked hard for opportunities in online business and then he eventually got a call.

Scott got his early breakthrough in 1996 with Quote.com. His job included building distributions, his strategy was partnering with other sites having users interested in there services, this way Scott partnered with over 100 sites which resulted increase in Quote.com's site traffic. Then he started ad-sales program to take benefit of site's traffic and enlisted Quote.com in top ten ad revenue generating websites of the time. Later Quote.com merged with Lycos for over $100 milion.

After the success of Quote.com Scott helped Sportsline USA merged with CBs. He operated the company's west coast and was the main point of contact of the network for cross media sales program. Following that the company merged with CBS and it was the first time a broadcast company merged with an internet company.

Following sportsline USA he helped Xoom.com increasing site traffic and generated revenue. He was a key member in the company’s merger to create NBC internet.

Business Ventures
In May 2003 Scott founded Self Storage Capital Group, a real estate development company specialized in organizing public self-storage companies. It was a $17 to $20 Billion market but controlling only 5 percent of the market with the next year controlling less than half of it. This venture led to his first book ““How to Invest and Make Money in Self Storage”.

In 2006 Scott founded Smart Charter an Online booking tool for private aviation. His company got attention of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group in 2009 and rebranded as Virgin Charter.

Entrepreneur Organization
Scott was a board member of Entrepreneurs' Organization from 2010 to 2012.

LAUNCH!
He is the author of a highly anticipated book, LAUNCH!published by Penguin Publishers. The book is regarded as a blue print for business man to launch and grow a successful business.

Personal Life
Scott currently lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.