Ben Baldazo (Work Log)

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Ben Baldazo Work Logs (Work Log)

  • 07/25/2016
    • Began working with acquisitions data in SDC
    • ran into a lot of bugs
    • Planned out the next unbiased ranking
  • 07/22/2016
    • Presented unbiased VC funding table to Ed (Sheet 4 from [Accelerators Google Sheet])
    • Added some benchmarks
    • Began adding IPOs and Acquisitions data
    • Began looking at relationships between Acc and VC's
    • Tomorrow need to look into: difference between Total Invested and IPO/Aquired amount
    • Tomorrow need to look into: In which accelerators do mentors have skin in the game
  • 07/21/2016
    • Matched VC to portfolios of accelerators
    • Used VC info to look at accelerator performance
    • Realized that in the books HTC doesn't look as bad as we thought
    • Tried to come up with better industry averages (in the process)
    • [Accelerators Google Sheet]
  • 07/20/2016
    • Filled more information into [Accelerators Google Sheet]
    • Narrowed the companies down with the criteria on the Houston Accelerators (issue brief) page
    • discussed how to judge the organizations more
    • Finished updated PortCo lists for companies 'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Accelerators\Updated Portfolios'
    • left early to grade Organic Chem exams
  • 07/19/2016
    • Filled more information into [Accelerators Google Sheet]
    • Created chart with Dylan attempting to qualify Houston Accelerators (with 11 data points it was underwhelming)
    • Perhaps we need to talk to Yael on how to judge accelerators (objectively?)
    • Deciding on a better way to document accelerators
      • Perhaps we need to look at VC earning companies (giving them an industry bias) then compare Market and Non
      • Perhaps there's another way to measure cohorts
    • Began updating cohort lists for each accelerator 'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Accelerators\Updated Portfolios'
  • 07/15/2016
    • Added Latitude and Longitude to the Startups of Houston
    • Created a map of Houston startups
    • met with Ankita about wikipages
    • learned about wiki templates
    • created work log and research plan
    • organized my wikipages under Houston Entrepreneurship
    • Started planning Houston Accelerators (issue brief)
    • Next Time: Create a page on how to use Geocode.py