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*Market vs Non-Market
**Philanthropic funding?
***If Non-Profit: Propublica will document contributions
***If for profit: call?
**Founded Bottom up? or Top down?
***See if it was founded by a group or individual with actual industry connections (online or phone)
*Location
**Proximity to resources
***We may have to update the startups in Houston map for this*Available Resources(we should generally be able to call or find this on website, these should be things they brag about)
**Flex Space
**Events
**Connections/Mentorship
***This can also have a judged value based on Mentor/Connection perceived experiece
**Funding(This may be hard but if they offer their own VC we can check through SDC)
**Userbase
*Leadership/Experience qualifications(Linkedin, profiles on their own websites, other bios)
**Have they driven a startup before or been in backseat
**What other qualifications do they have
*Criteria from the Acc Rankings(as long as we have portfolios then we can use SDC for this)
**VC funding history
**IPO
**Acquired
*Any other reviews possible
**Other articles(Xconomy, Houston Chronicle, etc.)**Info from actually calling the accelerators(Putting a list of questions up on the discussion for [[Houston Accelerators (Issue Brief)]]**perhaps reviews from startups themselves***Could look specifically into startups that have gone through multiple acceleratorshopefully we have phone numbers on [[File:HSM10.xlsx]]
