By Natalie Samson. Defending one’s PhD is a daunting, time-consuming endeavour. Now imagine doing it while running a multimillion-dollar tech start-up and you’ll begin to get a picture of life right now for Sam Molyneux. In 2010, Mr. Molyneux co-founded Sciencescape, a web-based platform to keep track of scientific discoveries, with his web-developer sister Amy. This was shortly after the 34-year-old University of Toronto doctoral student found himself in a situation that every academic dreads. More...
