Joe Reilly (Work Log)

Joe Reilly Work Logs (log page)

2017-06-20: Joined the center! Wrote my page. Started on Collecting SBIR Data. Finished collecting SBIR Data; saved in bulk(D:)--> McNair-->Projects-->SBIR. Began researching VC funds in the file Venture Funds in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData

2017-06-21: Continued researching VC funds in the file Venture Funds in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData.

2017-06-22: Finished researching VC funds in the file Venture Funds in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData. Began grouping.

2017-06-23: Finished grouping VC funds in the file Venture Funds in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData. Researched whether based in Houston, and whether they should be considered alive.

2017-06-27: Sorted VC funds in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData; deleted non-operating ones; finalized groups. Began researching the relative size of different sectors in Houston's economy. Work saved in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Industries.

2017-06-28: Began adding cohorts to each new accelerator in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators, saving each accelerator's cohort in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Data as (acceleratorname).cohort, as a text file.

2017-06-29: Continued adding cohorts to each new accelerator in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators, saving each accelerator's cohort in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Data as (acceleratorname).cohort, as a text file. Searched through documents in E:\McNair\Projects\SimplerPatentData\data\extracts\applications, in the modern and vintage folders, for examples of patents of the following type: utility, plant, reissue, and design, in versions 1.5, 1.6, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5. Placed examples in the folder E:\McNair\Projects\SimplerPatentData\data\examples. As mentioned in the wiki page (and all but confirmed with regex searches of hundreds of the patent documents), we appear only to have data on utility patents, except for a few plant patents.

2017-06-30: Continued adding cohorts to each new accelerator in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators, saving each accelerator's cohort in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Data as (acceleratorname).cohort, either as an excel file or a text file. Added addresses to companies in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData,

2017-07-11: Continued adding addresses to companies in Venture Funds in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData. Note: The file "VC Data" is now called "Venture Funds".

2017-07-12: Added addresses/PO box locations to Venture Funds in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData to remaining VC firms. Organized list. Began organizing cohort data collected on 6/30 w/ regex to streamline searching and gathering of cohort names themselves. Compiled addresses, along with other categorized info, in an excel file called "VC firms with address, basic sector info", saved in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData. For each cohort in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Accelerator Match, added headers to the tabbed name, founder, description, etc. Continued searching for addresses of the firms with no addresses listed in "VC firms with address, basic sector info". Double-checked addresses.

Note: The Houston VC data write up is on Houston_Entrepreneurship_Ecosystem_Project#VC_Funds_in_Houston

2017-07-13: Helped Diana with researching proportion of Houston's city budget allocated towards startup funding/entrepreneurship (apparently none...). Gathered info on IT and Procurement sections of Budget. Researched proportion of Houston budget allocated towards IT and Procurement. Excel and text files saved in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Budget. Continued researching relative sizes of industries in Houston, gathered relevant info and links in "Industry breakdown..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Industries.

2017-07-14: used data from links in "Industry breakdown by GDP..." in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Industries to create Excel charts of Houston employment & Gross Area Product broken down by industry. Saved charts in the same folder. Energy, health, and (for employment data) IT sectors were emphasized, in line with the goal of communicating the idea that, as substantial parts of the Houston economy, those industries will benefit from supporting local startups. Looked up example charts in the file 2017ReportV1 in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Houston Ecosystem Recommendations, both for ideas for future charts, and to get a idea of quantitative VC data in Houston. Fixed typos, improved incomplete keys. Cleaned the file Venture Funds in E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData: added research on funds declared dead to make sure they actually are. Double checked that all firms in the master list were accounted for in the grouped list of VC firms.

2017-07-18: For the file "hubs list" in Z:\Hubs\2017\hubs_data, researched whether organizations not listed as hubs (aka shaded red) in "Hubs Data v2_16" (located in the same folder) should be considered hubs, under the definition that a hub has 1) has a coworking space, 2) provides mentorship, 3) offers coding classes/tech events for cohort companies. Whether the hub had an accelerator or was tech focused was also noted.

2017-07-19: Continued editing "hubs list" in Z:\Hubs\2017\hubs_data, researching organizations marked as questionably hubs. Used websites like Alexa and similarsites.com to find hubs with websites similar to hubs in the "hubs list" file. Only found 1 new hub. Began searching possible hubs in the file "Raw Program list" in E:\McNair\Projects\Hubs\summer 2016.

2017-07-20: Searched through the firms in "Raw Program list" in E:\McNair\Projects\Hubs\summer 2016 to determine if they could be considered hubs based on the definition listed above. If they were, they were added to the list of new hubs in "hubs list" in Z:\Hubs\2017\hubs_data.

2017-07-21: Researched whether organizations declared hubs last year (in the file "Hubs Data v2_16" Z:\Hubs\2017\hubs_data), noted in "hubs list" in the same folder the ones not confirmed as operating hubs.