Houston Entrepreneurship

Houston has vast opportunities and resources for an entrepreneurial mindset to take advantage of: extensive networks of philanthropists, the medical center, and oil money, just to name a few. This page is dedicated to diagraming what Houston has to show for this.

Projects

The current write up of the Houston Accelerator issue brief is here: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?usp=sharing_eip&ts=58a4c002

Guide to Small Business in Houston

Houston Accelerators (issue brief)

Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project

Entrepreneurship Ecosystems of Houston (Issue Brief)

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem of Houston (Blog Post)

Start-Ups of Houston (Map)

Houston Accelerators and Incubators (Report)

Preliminary Artifacts Location

'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Acc Rank (IB)\Charts.xlsx'

Startups

http://www.mcnaircenter.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Startups&action=edit&redlink=1

File:HSM10.xlsx

File:HSM11.xlsx

HSM11

E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\HSM11.xlsx

Z:\Bulk\Houston\HSM11.txt

• Either above will work.
• Sources are listed in file E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\HSMPriority.xlsx
  • This sheet explains in which order I pulled the information into the spreadsheet (and consequently the sources I pulled from)
  • I've also added a subjective measure from 1 to 3 of how valuable I think the data is.
  • In case you're lazy here are the names:
• Side Note: there are notes in the database drive under Z:\Bulk\Houston\HoustonSQLNotes.txt
  • Or there's also the code in Z:\Bulk\Houston\Houston.sql

Startup Lists
List	Entries	Location	Notes
AngelList	500	https://angel.co/	Under Houston and Startups Filters
HoustonStartupsList	283	http://houston.startups-list.com/
StartupBlinkMap	379	http://www.startupblink.com/	Within Houston Area
Startups-Accelerators	292	From Accelerators Websites
SDC VC Houston Port Cos	493	Pulled from Thomson Reuters SDC Venture Data	Pull was from Venture Data in Houston MSA
CrunchBase	116	https://www.crunchbase.com	Under Houston. Not much data could be pulled in mass
StartHouston	27	http://www.starthouston.com/people/startups/	This should possibly have been included in Startups-Accelerators but it was a late addition
VeeralURL	Updated 27	E:\McNair\Software\Scripts\Gscript2.py	Used a program that looked for additional websites on google
HSMWhoIsParser	Updated anything with a website	E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\WhoIsParser\WhoIsParser.pl	Program that mines website registration
PortCoToVC	Updated all entries from the VC pull	E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\PortCoToVC.txt	SDC Pull that shows which VC firms invested in a Company

Accelerators

File:HouAccList.xlsx

Accelerator Rankings

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit#gid=0

Venture Capital

Firms in Houston: File:SDCVentureHoustonList.txt

'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Venture'

Most of these (if not all) are from SDC pulls.

File Locations

E:\McNair\Projects\Houston

Database

Z:\Bulk\Houston

Code Held in:

Z:\Bulk\Houston\Houston.sql

Notation of all tables and a few other documentations held:

Z:\Bulk\Houston\HoustonSQLNotes.txt

• Look here to see if a table has already been made or if there's a newer version of a certain table