BenchPrep is a small group of driven, ambitious individuals committed to changing the landscape of education. We work hard, eat well, and have lots of fun. Our clients include ACT®, HRCI, Hobsons and many other educational companies. Our current situation is very thrilling. You will join a small team in a profitable start-up, that is building both green-field projects as well as improving existing top-of-the-line products.
I wrote about horrors of scientific publishing not just from the viewership side, but also from publishing side a few years ago. tl;dr - Publishers have just too much control on publishing process and distribution process when they bring almost nothing to the table in the digital world we are living today. The very fact that as a scientist you can only submit a paper to one journal at a time and wait for months and sometimes a year to get a response is insane and completely unacceptable. Imagine if you have to do it when you are applying for a job.
I love what they are trying to do. The entire scientific publishing industry is messed up and can use any help it can get. I wrote a blog about how terrible the scientific publishing system is sometime back.
The entire academic publishing industry is messed up. There's just as much of a cost issue with arts and humanities journals.
After health care, journal publishing fees are one of the biggest and most regressive 'free market' choke-point costs ever levied on human civilisation.
I would put a focus group around improving add-ons for gmail, one at a time. Though I use multiple project management tools, I still use email the most. Having a direct project/todo management tool in gmail would make the life so much easier and no one will have to go and get different accounts for different clients. They can just add a project within gmail. But it has to be at least at par with the current best. This will completely disrupt the project management tool provider industry.
The interesting thing here is that the abstract which is the text he has is free for all. It is just the abstract of a nature journal article, nothing more, nothing less, which is available to everyone, anyways.
BenchPrep is a small group of driven, ambitious individuals committed to changing the landscape of education. We work hard, eat well, and have lots of fun. Our clients include ACT®, HRCI, Hobsons and many other educational companies. Our current situation is very thrilling. You will join a small team in a profitable start-up, that is building both green-field projects as well as improving existing top-of-the-line products.
Roles we're hiring for: Senior Engineer & Automation Engineer email: u@benchprep.com