Crunchbase 2013 Snapshot

Username: mcnair@rice.edu

password: amount

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Basic Membership

• Can not seem to filter results past the first 50 companies
• Very basic information such as company name, location, industry classification, website, and "Crunchbase ranking".

Retrieval

The data was retrieved by Shrey and Matthew through an application from the Crunchbase Website for the API service. The data took about a month to come in due to a lack of response from Crunchbase itself. Eventually, they gave us basic access.

Content

The snapshot contained 2 .tar.qz files, which were extracted into 181/crunchbase using the command

tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

The csv files (organizations.csv and people.csv) were copied for access to:

E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Crunchbase Snapshot

The files (size in bytes) and their contents are

crunchbase_2013_snapshot_mysql.tar.gz

• license.txt 526
• cb_objects.sql 338955612
• cb_offices.sql 14850092
• cb_people.sql 13253952
• cb_ipos.sql 178397
• cb_milestones.sql 10498840
• cb_funds.sql 385010
• cb_relationships.sql 48655529
• cb_degrees.sql 13829471
• cb_investments.sql 6185134
• cb_acquisitions.sql 2309393
• cb_funding_rounds.sql 14681705

odm.csv.tar.gz

• organizations.csv 212013301
  • 459916 records with the following fields:
    • crunchbase_uuid
    • type
    • primary_role
    • name
    • crunchbase_url
    • homepage_domain
    • homepage_url
    • profile_image_url
    • facebook_url
    • twitter_url
    • linkedin_url
    • stock_symbol
    • location_city
    • location_region
    • location_country_code
    • short_description
• people.csv 188924229
  • 521634 records with the following fields:
    • crunchbase_uuid
    • type
    • first_name
    • last_name
    • crunchbase_url
    • profile_image_url
    • facebook_url
    • twitter_url
    • linkedin_url
    • location_city
    • location_region
    • location_country_code
    • title
    • organization
    • organization_crunchbase_url
• crunchbase_license.txt 487

Changing MYSQL to PostgreSQL

The SQL files were generated in MySQL. We need to convert them to PostgreSQL. See: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Converting_MySQL_to_PostgreSQL and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1942586/comparison-of-database-column-types-in-mysql-postgresql-and-sqlite-cross-map

The key changes are:

MYSQL          POSTGRESQL
-----          ----------
LOCK           --comment out as no need but LOCK [ TABLE ] [ ONLY ] name [ * ] [, ...] [ IN lockmode MODE ] [ NOWAIT ]
UNLOCK         --comment out
decimal(x,y)   real (might work as is)
datetime       timestamp
KEY            --comment out as no need but FOREIGN KEY ( column_name [, ... ] ) REFERENCES reftable [ ( refcolumn [, ... ] ) ]

Documentation and File Locations

The Crunchbase information were broken down into two different files:

• The "organizations" Excel file contains: crunchbase_uuid type primary_role name crunchbase_url homepage_domain homepage_url profile_image_url facebook_url twitter_url linkedin_url stock_symbol location_city location_region location_country_code short_description

• Located in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Crunchbase Snapshot

• The "people" Excel file contains: crunchbase_uuid type first_name last_name crunchbase_url profile_image_url facebook_url twitter_url linkedin_url location_city location_region location_country_code title organization organization_crunchbase_url

• Located in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Crunchbase Snapshot

Obtaining Accelerators from the "Organizations" file

1. Created new columns in the data labeled "match: blah", where blah is the word we're searching for in the descriptions
2. Added: "=if(isnumber(search("blah",B2))=TRUE,1,0)", where blah is the substring (what you're searching for), B2 is the string (what your searching in) and 1 represents that it's present and 0 means it isn't.
3. Added: "=sum(A1:C1) This just sums the cells from A1 to C1"
4. Compiled a list of potential accelerators depending on the number of matches (the sum)

1. File is labeled "PotentialAccelerators" which just has the list of accelerators we were considering based on their match number; located in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Crunchbase Snapshot

Appending Crunchbase Accelerators Information to Old Accelerator Data

Matthew created a file called "Crunchbase Potential Accelerators", which repeats the names of all the accelerators in the Crunchbase folder, but includes a note as to whether the accelerator is already included in our data, or whether we need to add the file to our data before the semester ends.

• Adding the accelerator consists of adding the accelerator text file with basic information, the cohort html file, and most importantly, the cohort text file so we can calculate the VC raise rate