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How Glasp helps users visualize their knowledge – ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 share it with the world

Imagine if you could organize all your ideas, the things you find online, ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 your notes from different platforms, in one place. Now, what if you could share that information easily with colleagues, family members, or friends at any time?

That is the vision ofGlasp, a startup founded in 2021 byKazuki Nakayashikiブラック ジャック 賭け 方Kei Watanabein San Francisco, California. Glasp is a social-first tool that people can use to highlight ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 organize quotes ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 ideas from across the web without switching back ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 forth between screens. It also allows users to share ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 access other like-minded people’s learning.

“We believe that everyone in the world has unique experiences ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 knowledge that they collect throughout their lives. But people usually don't take notes or share their knowledge with others, ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 so it's a loss for human society,” said Watanabe. “We'd like to see people using Glasp to share their knowledge with other people ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 for future generations.”

Glasp, which stブラック ジャック 賭け 方s for “Greatest Legacy Accumulated as Shared Proof," is a web-based tool. Unlike simple note-taking or web-collecting apps like Obsidian, Evernote or Google Keep, its extension-based platform allows users to quickly capture online content to their Glasp page, which can easily be shared with anyone. Highlights can be tagged, searched for, linked to, ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 shared on various other platforms, including Twitter, Microsoft Teams, ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 Slack.

Both Nakayashiki ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 Watanabe are Japanese but have experience studying ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 working in California, including at the same large tech giant where they met. That is why they made the choice to launch Glasp as an international startup focused on the American market ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 based near Silicon Valley, offering their product in English.

“We thought starting a company ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 doing business here made sense, to get more users ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 to spread our mission ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 vision,” said Nakayashiki.

JETRO played a role in helping Glasp, including connecting Nakayashiki ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 Watanabe to a mentor who provided useful advice ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 pushed both founders to stay focused on the fundamentals, ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 not get distracted by hacks or shortcuts. JETRO has also helped introduce Glasp to potential accelerators ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 startup events.

As a new tool in a crowded space, it can be hard to stブラック ジャック 賭け 方 out or get users to try something different. Glasp has so far relied on direct outreach ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 word-of-mouth to reach users, not spending anything on marketing over the last year. It’s worked well, as they’ve grown to 500,000 users since launching in 2021 ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 have gotten positive feedback from those who have tried the platform.

“One of the advantages of Glasp is that your highlights are public by default,” said Nakayashiki. “It means we have a social aspect built into our product, ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 we could use that to tap into product-led growth.”

Currently, there are two tiers, a free version ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 a paid tier, which gives users additional features ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 the ability to make their highlights private. Already, they’re looking to add new features, such as the ability to write blog posts directly from Glasp or integrating AI to better connect various pieces of knowledge.

For example, Glasp allows users to make anAI Clone, called a Digital Me. The tool works like a chatbot based on their learning ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 knowledge, ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 users can even share it with others. Digital Me can answer requests related to a user’s knowledge ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 interests ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 even make suggestions.

“With AI clones, users can ask, in natural language, what they know through what they’ve collected,” said Nakayashiki.

One area that Nakayashiki sees significant potential in is in the business-to-business sector. Glasp could help businesses ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 large organizations maintain collective knowledge despite employee turnover.

“Companies are losing billions of dollars every year because, especially in Silicon Valley, people leave their jobs after just two to three years,” said Nakayashiki. “If a company uses our product, then after employees leave, new employees can access their knowledge ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 notes, ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 that could be beneficial.”

In order to reach enterprise customers, Glasp needs to expブラック ジャック 賭け 方 its offerings ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 provide B2B-specific offerings. That will require investment. So far, Glasp has raised money from Goodwater Capital ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 CyberAgent Capital ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 is actively looking for more investment in order to scale ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 attract new users. They’re also looking to expブラック ジャック 賭け 方 their network ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 experiment with new outreach plans ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 targets.

“Maybe we can add more tiers, like professional or enterprise,” said Watanabe. “We can also have an advertising system in our product as well, since it’s social.”

It’s clear that Glasp has potential ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 offers users something novel ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 unique compared to existing platforms, but stブラック ジャック 賭け 方ing out in a market with so many similar tools will be challenging. Another issue is balancing the founder's desire to provide a useful tool to as many users as possible for free while also making the paid tier attractive, or finding other revenue models, in order to achieve profitability.

“We want to keep as much as possible for free, to stick with our mission ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 vision,” said Nakayashiki. “I think sharing is caring, so sharing knowledge is empowering others.”

One reason that Nakayashiki is so focused on this is that, for him, Glasp’s vision is deeply personal. After a serious health crisis when he was 20, which left his body partly paralyzed for some time, he wanted to work on something that he believed in ブラック ジャック 賭け 方 that would outlast him.

“I wanted to leave something for other people, so that I could feel a sense of contribution,” said Nakayashiki. “That is why it’s our mission to democratize access to people's learning as a digital legacy.”