ResearchGATE

In the world of commerce, the last few months have underscored the fact that every retailer, brand and entity that sells or distributes something needs to have a digital strategy. Today, one of the st

Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGate – the so-called Facebook for scientists – shot down an accusation about a questionable way it may have acquired users in the past. The ques

Disrupt Berlin 2017 is coming up in December, and even though that is a ways off, we are already building out our content. We’re also here to remind you to sign up for our next 2-for-1 ticket re

As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals

It took three years for Richard Price, a PhD in philosophy, to get a paper published. The slow speed of that inspired him to start what is essentially a social network called Academia, where academi

We’re told never to forget the ultimate laziness of humans, but when it comes to research in the internet age, sometimes that laziness can shock even the most prepared of minds. Students in grade sc

ResearchGate’s Ijad Madisch’s lifelong ambition of winning a Nobel Prize for changing the way scientific research is undertaken piqued the interest of Valley investors several years ago. N

It's not often you come across a founder that measures startup success by winning the Nobel Peace Prize one day. When <a target="_blank" href="http://www.researchgate.net/">ResearchGate</a> founder <a

<b>Editor's note: </b><em>Matt Cohler is a General Partner at Benchmark and was the lead investor in Asana, Instagram and Quora among others.</em> Throw a dart at a map. There’s a pretty good

Ijad Madisch started ResearchGate in 2008 to change the scientific method, and depending on where you sit, that either is or isn't as ambitious as it sounds. Madisch isn't on a crusade to overturn the

At the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Benchmark Capital Partner <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/silicon-valley-versailles/">Matt Cohler took to the stage to talk about</a> the state