"In The Studio" continues this week by welcoming a former Oxford PhD student who, upon completing his long education, ended up in San Francisco, toyed with a few web ideas, eventually was so inspired by an idea, based in part to his experience in a PhD program, that he found his passion and founded his first real startup. Richard Price had an interesting path to be on this show. After launching his startup, Academia.edu, in 2008, and raising over $5m in venture capital from savvy investors, it was Price who reached out to me to be on the show. I was very skeptical, I must admit. I didn't understand how the site had been around for so long but I couldn't get a feel of the activity on the site. To his credit, Price answered a long battery of emails quite nobly, and while we are all looking use the web to test ideas far and wide, we too are enamored by growth and evidence of usage or impact, the validation that many seek. While Academia.edu certainly isn't there yet, it's clear from interacting with Price -- and as you can see on this video -- he is a founder who has identified a key problem and is obsessed with trying to solve it.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ygIHStRMuxE/
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