Sat May 28, 2016 7:40 pm
According to the "About" page, the founder says he built the site to showcase the work he did during his PhD. Since he writes "during my PhD", a construction which makes no grammatical sense, we must guess at the meaning. One interpretation would be that he held a PhD for a while, and later had it revoked.
In any case, I think it's very brave of you to go ahead when people with impressive academic credentials say you have a 25% chance of not getting $3000 pledged when you have $3025 pledged. Of course, it would seem to me that you have a 0% chance of failure now, but I have never been awarded a doctorate, even temporarily.
Bob
New and vigorous impulses seem to me to be at work in it,[the cinema] and doubtless before long it will drop all slavish copying of the stage and strike out along fresh paths. -- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree