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| [https://www.whartoneclub.com/resources/entrepreneurship/incubators/ Whartoneclub Incubators]
 
| [https://www.whartoneclub.com/resources/entrepreneurship/incubators/ Whartoneclub Incubators]
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* Name, City, State
 
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* Url to home page of incubator
 
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| May not be able to get specific information from home page. Limited list of incubators. Some organizations listed may not fall under our definition of an incubator (eg. Y Combinator)
 
 
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| [http://exchange.inbia.org/network/findacompany/ InterNational Business Incubation Association] or see our [[INBIA]] page
 
| [http://exchange.inbia.org/network/findacompany/ InterNational Business Incubation Association] or see our [[INBIA]] page
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* Company Name and address
 
* Company Name and address
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* Link to another page within inbia on that page there is a link to the incubator's homepage
 
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| The database contains information on a lot of economic development institutions and would provide a mass quantity of data
 
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| Challenging for web crawler as link connects to another page within inbia and then link on that page connects to company's homepage. Not all of institutions listed are incubators. 
 
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Out of the first ten links there were: 4 incubators, 2 educational programs, 1 broken link, 3 other economic development programs
 
 
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| [https://www.clustermapping.us/organization-type/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-support-organizations Clustermapping]
 
| [https://www.clustermapping.us/organization-type/innovation-and-entrepreneurship-support-organizations Clustermapping]
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* Company name with link to a separate page within cluster mapping
 
* Company name with link to a separate page within cluster mapping
 
* on that page there is a link to the incubator's website
 
* on that page there is a link to the incubator's website
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| Provides a long list of entrepreneurship organizations
 
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| Often data is missing off of the separate page for the company, including the URL to the company's website. The description is often not detailed enough to determine the category for the economic organization without going to the company's website.  Different types of entrepreneurship organizations are mixed together. 
 
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Using the first 10 links, three were accelerators, six were missing links (two were self-proclaimed incubators in description), and one was another type of support organization.
 
 
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| [https://thembaisdead.com/list-of-startup-accelerators-and-incubators/ The MBA Is Dead ]
 
| [https://thembaisdead.com/list-of-startup-accelerators-and-incubators/ The MBA Is Dead ]
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* low equity, high offer, high value
 
* low equity, high offer, high value
 
* high equity, low offer, low value
 
* high equity, low offer, low value
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* link to company homepage
 
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* categories of companies it accelerates/incubates
 
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| Seems to be a lot of data on accelerators and fewer incubators included
 
 
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Revision as of 12:21, 18 April 2019


Project
US Incubators
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Project Information
Has title US Incubators
Has owner Yi Ma
Has start date
Has deadline date
Has project status Active
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Objective

The objective of this project is to assemble a near-population dataset on U.S. incubators! This project uses the Incubator Seed Data.

Progress

Extract incubator data from the following sources using regular expression

Source Directions How many? Data
Whartoneclub Incubators
  • Opened source link.
  • Copied results from "U.S. Based Incubators" into excel spreadsheet.
 21
  • Name, City, State
InterNational Business Incubation Association or see our INBIA page
  • Opened source link
  • Entered "United States" for country and clicked "Find Companies"
 415
  • Company Name and address
Clustermapping Opened Source Link 292
  • Company name with link to a separate page within cluster mapping
  • on that page there is a link to the incubator's website
The MBA Is Dead
  • Opened source link.
  • Selected "Region" >> "US & Canada"
 186 Results
  • Click on each accelerator/incubator to get data
  • City and Country
  • low equity, high offer, high value
  • high equity, low offer, low value
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