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\title{Authorea: accelerating discovery through online collaboration}


\author[ ]{Alberto Pepe}

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\section*{Authorea: our pitch.}\label{authorea-our-pitch.}

It has been said that in order to cure cancer, we must first cure cancer
\emph{research}. At Authorea we're improving how researchers work and
make breakthrough discoveries by tackling one of the most important
parts of the research cycle, which is as important as research itself:
scientific communication. Our mission is to reinvent the scientific
article - the main vehicle of scientific dissemination - that hasn't
changed in format and scope since the birth of the scientific method.
We're bringing the power of the modern web to a process that has not
changed in 400 years in order to make research more open, collaborative,
accessible, transparent and data-driven. In scientific terms, we're a
paradigm shift. Join us as we write the future of research, literally.

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New York City's top 100 startups by the Hundert magazine. Photo: ©
Saskia Uppenkamp. In the picture: Josh Nicholson (Chief
Research~Officer) and Alberto Pepe (CEO and Co-founder). Location: Shake
Shack, Madison Square Park, New York.
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