Houston Entrepreneurship
Houston has vast opportunities and resources for an entrepreneurial mindset to take advantage of: extensive networks of philanthropists, the medical center, and oil money, just to name a few. This page is dedicated to diagraming what Houston has to show for this.
| Houston Entrepreneurship | |
|---|---|
| Project Information | |
| Has title | Houston Entrepreneurship |
| Has owner | Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens |
| Has start date | January 2016 |
| Has deadline date | |
| Has keywords | Hubs, Incubators, Accelerators, Houston, Venture, Capital, Angel, Investor, Startups, Crowding-out, Social-Media |
| Has project status | Subsume |
| Does subsume | Houston Accelerators (issue brief), Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project, Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief), Start-Ups of Houston (Map), Houston Accelerators and Incubators (Report), VC Report Houston 2017, Houston Economic Data |
| Subsumed by: | Houston Innovation District |
| Has sponsor | McNair Center |
| Has project output | Content |
| Copyright © 2019 edegan.com. All Rights Reserved. | |
Subsumed Projects
The current write up of the Houston Accelerator issue brief is here: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?usp=sharing_eip&ts=58a4c002
VC In Houston
- For some VC data see Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project
- www.crunchbase.com - we have a pro account mcnair@rice.edu amount
Files are in:
E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\VCData
Related Projects
For Small Business: Guide to Small Business in Houston
Preliminary Artifacts Location
'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Acc Rank (IB)\Charts.xlsx'
Startups
http://www.mcnaircenter.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Startups&action=edit&redlink=1
HSM11
E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\HSM11.xlsx
Z:\Bulk\Houston\HSM11.txt
- Either above will work.
- Sources are listed in file E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\HSMPriority.xlsx
- This sheet explains in which order I pulled the information into the spreadsheet (and consequently the sources I pulled from)
- I've also added a subjective measure from 1 to 3 of how valuable I think the data is.
- In case you're lazy here are the names:
- Side Note: there are notes in the database drive under Z:\Bulk\Houston\HoustonSQLNotes.txt
- Or there's also the code in Z:\Bulk\Houston\Houston.sql
| Startup Lists | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| List | Entries | Location | Notes |
| AngelList | 500 | https://angel.co/ | Under Houston and Startups Filters |
| HoustonStartupsList | 283 | http://houston.startups-list.com/ | |
| StartupBlinkMap | 379 | http://www.startupblink.com/ | Within Houston Area |
| Startups-Accelerators | 292 | From Accelerators Websites | |
| SDC VC Houston Port Cos | 493 | Pulled from Thomson Reuters SDC Venture Data | Pull was from Venture Data in Houston MSA |
| CrunchBase | 116 | https://www.crunchbase.com | Under Houston. Not much data could be pulled in mass |
| StartHouston | 27 | http://www.starthouston.com/people/startups/ | This should possibly have been included in Startups-Accelerators but it was a late addition |
| VeeralURL | Updated 27 | E:\McNair\Software\Scripts\Gscript2.py | Used a program that looked for additional websites on google |
| HSMWhoIsParser | Updated anything with a website | E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\WhoIsParser\WhoIsParser.pl | Program that mines website registration |
| PortCoToVC | Updated all entries from the VC pull | E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\PortCoToVC.txt | SDC Pull that shows which VC firms invested in a Company |
Accelerators
Venture Capital
Firms in Houston: File:SDCVentureHoustonList.txt
'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Venture'
Most of these (if not all) are from SDC pulls.
File Locations
E:\McNair\Projects\Houston
Database
Z:\Bulk\Houston
Code Held in:
Z:\Bulk\Houston\Houston.sql
Notation of all tables and a few other documentations held:
Z:\Bulk\Houston\HoustonSQLNotes.txt
- Look here to see if a table has already been made or if there's a newer version of a certain table
