Accelerator Industry Classification (Data)

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Accelerator Industry Classification (Data)
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Accelerators classified by the industry of which the accelerators' cohorts typically reside in.

Introduction and steps

The purpose of this project is to be able to give a NAICS code to each startup in our sample of startups that have attended accelerators. This will allow us to determine the specialization (if any) of each of the startup accelerators in our sample. The first few steps of the process are meant to get you up to speed.

Step 1: Retrieve URLs for each of the companies

For the first task, we will get the URLs for the company websites of every company that entered an accelerator. To do so, we will use “Porfolio Firms” Tab of the Google Sheet called “Accelerator-Portfolio-NAICS”.

The link to the google sheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Bw3qX7xLs5lSv577pS9YUtURDofYdqOza2MuP4dbthw/edit?usp=sharing

Here are the steps, each refers step refers to this sheet explicitely:

1. Look for a row that does not have the URL column filled out

2. Check to make sure that no one else is working on that row by seeing if someone has placed their cursor on that row

3. Now put your cursor on that row by clicking on the row’s Name column (this will make sure no one duplicates your work)

4. Now copy the Accelerator and Name columns of that row

5. Paste them into the google search box and search

6. Find a website that references both the accelerator name and the startup name

7. Click on that website’s link in google

8. See if the webpage includes a URL for the startup

9. Copy the company’s URL to the URL column in the row of the startup in the “Accelerator-Portfolio-NAICS” sheet

10. Put your initials (first, middle and last) in the “URL-ENTERER” column of the spreadsheet

11. If you have time, go back to step 1 and repeat

Step 2: Measure your productivity at Step 1

1. Repeat Step 1 for 1.5 - 2 hours while keeping track of how many rows you have completed (I do it by noting start and end row throughout this period). For this period of work, really try to focus and see how well you can do. We are trying to establish a top end of the productivity possible when running this task in this way.

2. Make note of your production for that time period both overall and in terms of per minute completion rate in the lab notes section below.

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