Connor Rothschild (Work Log)

Summer 2018

06/29/2018 -

• Finished manually coding an equity variable in Master Variable List sheet (with the help of Maxine Tao).
• Finished editing terms of joining accelerator:
• Given the above two tasks, there are five new columns in our Master Variable List sheet:
  • Terms of joining - terms of joining accelerator and important details about program
  • equity (1/0) - cells contain a 1 if the accelerator take equity, a 0 if an accelerator definitively does not, and is blank if we could not find that information
  • equity amount - the % of equity the accelerator will take (can sometimes be a range (eg. 5-7%))
  • investment - the $ the accelerator invests in a company to begin, if relevant (also could be a range or a "up to $######")
  • notes - anything to comment on previous 4 columns
• Taught Maxine Tao how to VLookup :D

06/28/2018 -

• Began manually coding an equity variable in Master Variable List sheet.
• Edited terms of joining accelerator.
• Helped Grace with LinkedIn crawler.

06/27/2018 -

• Finished coding duplicates. Final file can be found at:

/bulk/McNair/Projects/Accelerators/Summer 2018/Duplicate Companies.xlsx

• Dylan taught interns Excel skills

06/26/2018 -

• Began coding duplicates in CohortMainBaseWCounts.txt file that Ed sent. Sorted by company name alphabetically, then used conditional formatting to highlight when an accelerator had the same name as the accelerator above. This narrowed down the results to instances in which a company would go through the same accelerator twice. Most of the time, this was due to an error with the normalizer, so I moved those un-normalized company names to their own sheet and deleted them from the file.

06/25/2018 -

• Went through and manually fixed discrepancies between our accelerator data and the Crunchbase data, found at

/bulk/McNair/Projects/Accelerators/Summer 2018/Accelerators Matched by Name and Homepage URL.xlsx

• Finalized a sheet with a list of accelerator names as we code them, as Crunchbase codes them, and the appropriate UUID for each accelerator. I recommend updating the names in our spreadsheet of accelerators to the Crunchbase list so that we will be able to look up that name without having an in-between. The list can be found in the rightmost columns here:

/bulk/McNair/Projects/Accelerators/Summer 2018/Accelerator Master Variable List - Revised by Ed V2.xlsx

and here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n1sX5DqZrm_0vbUXG9ZaZIagF9sa0Kva9PAno-6H854/edit?usp=sharing

• Worked with Minh Le to better understand and begin documenting the Demo Day Page Parser project.

06/22/2018 -

• Finished going through Accelerator Master Variable List to refine industry classification and update addresses/accelerator statuses.

06/21/2018 -

• Began manually editing entries in Accelerator Master Variable List.
• Reached out to Grace and Maxine and sent them the necessary sheets/txt files so they could begin on their Crunchbase project.
• I also made these graphics to better represent what our collaborative work would look like, and what the final project would include:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Mb7lOLydm9r-ENYxSlZJVGgY9wxClATR6Hy8F9YK1Y/edit?usp=sharing

06/20/2018 -

• Talked with Ed about project details.
• Began looking through the Accelerator Master List to better understand project description.
• Sent Grace and Maxine the relevant company names listed in the Accelerator Master Spreadsheet so they could begin using their relevant parsers and tools to sort through data.

06/19/2018 -

• Set up work stations on balcony, trained

06/18/2018 -

• Trained, met other interns