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Glassboard
An Abstract
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What is Glassboard?
• Collaboration network for research and
development
• Fusion of two core elements:
+ Identification
+ Collaboration
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Identification
+ Expertise Network + Search Engine
+ Researchers to discover best collaborator for project
+ Labs to identify experts to solve problems
+ Biotech companies to find most compelling research
to track
+ Principal Investigators to recruit the most relevant
scientists to their lab
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IdentifyCollaborators
+ Experts
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Figure 2: Detailed Information
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Figure 3: The Graph of R+D
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Collaboration
• Projects Web App
• Organizes all research into individual projects
• Each Project interactive with all members
• Share:
– Data
– Documents
– Dialogue
• Collaborate in real-time, across labs, institutions, or even countries
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CollaborateConduct your
Research
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Figures 4a-4d: Creating New Project
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Motivation• R+D Spending Growth Accelerating
– U.S.: $369 billion
– World: $1.2 trillion
– Why?
• R+D Accounts for >50% of economic growth
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Global R+D Spending in 2000: $729 billion
North America
Asia
Europe
Other
Global R+D Spending in 2010: $1.2 trillion
United States
Japan
China
India
Europe
Other
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Motivation II: Rise of Interdisciplinary Research
• Pressure of costs, benefits of trade
• Ricardo, anyone?
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Problem/Opportunity
• PI’s at Yale and Tri-Institutional network agree:
• Collaboration essential, yet...
• Technology = brake != accelerator for research
• Email + Office = Inefficient for Collaboration
• Capitalizing on International Partnerships
• No high-resolution information to find and make the best
connections
• No easy way to share high resolution information once
partnerships are formed
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The Pains of Collaboration I
• Lack of High Resolution Information on R+D
– Papers
– Protocols
– Probability
– Conferences
• A PI’s knowledge of other labs, best talent, and research
constrained by:
– Limited radius of their peer network
– Limited information available from papers and the web
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The Pains of Collaboration II
• Communication challenging
– Single field, single lab to interdisciplinary, multi-
institutional projects
• PI’s exchange >100 emails/day
• PI’s eschew currently available project
management utilities since they are not tailored
to their needs
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Glassboard: Global Graph of R+D
PI 1Yale
Paper 1
Paper 1I
PI 2MIT
PI 3Harvard
PfizerLicenses From
PI 4 Harvard
Collaborates With
Cites
Paper 1II
Cites
Eli Lilly
PI 5 Sloan-Kettering
Collaborates With
Funds
Funds
Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation
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“Unfair Advantages”
• BraneRank
• Proprietary, High Resolution Information
• Coherent Platform
• Refine algorithm with feedback
• Add field-specific features
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The Market
• United States
– Over 5 million scientists + engineers (NSF)
– Thousands of universities
– Government institutions
– Corporate R+D (esp. biotechnology)
• OECD
– 4 million active researchers
– NSF estimates ~7 million global researchers in 2013
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Business Model• Institutional Subscriptions
• Freemium
• Activation Energy
– Target Yale, Sloan-
Kettering, Harvard-
MIT, Columbia, select biotech
companies
– Initial contracts will lead to
logistic growth
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Business Model II
• Institutional Subscriptions
– Projects Web App
• First project = free
• Project management industry standard: $100/usr/year
– Researcher Performance Analytics
• Industry standard: ~$50/usr/year
– Automatically enact network effect within each institution
– Institutional clients drawn by aforementioned trends of
collaborative research; individual labs drawn by pain
points
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Team• Evan N. Feinberg
– Founder + CEO
– Applied Physics, YC ‘13
• Kirill Miniaev
– Lead Designer
– Art and Design, YC ’12
• Jazear Brooks
– PM and WebDev
– Computer Science, YC ’13
• Julien Clancy
– Algorithm development + graph theory
– Mathematics, YC ’15
• Mason Liang
– Backend infrastructure
– Mathematics + CS, YC ’15
• Will Grathwohl
– Machine Learning
– Mathematics + CS, MIT ‘14
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Game Plan
• Now
– Expand prototype
– Raise ~$100K in private capital + $100K in matching grants
• Summer 2013
– Complete beta product
– Attract Yale, Sloan-Kettering, etc. as incubatory clients
• Fall 2013
– Complete development, obtain institutional contracts
– Raise Round A venture capital
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GlassboardWhen one views the world with a lens of convergence, the human mind holds boundless power to solve problems relevant to our world.
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