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This project is developing broad and near-population data on accelerators and their cohort companies. The objective is to identify which cohorts of which accelerators a cohort company was trained in, obtain details of the accelerators, and obtain details of the cohort companies, including information about any venture capital investment that the cohort company might have received and any IPO or acquisition the company may have experienced.
The primary use of this data is for an academic paper detailed on the [[Matching Entrepreneurs to Accelerators and VCs (Academic Paper)]] page.
However, this project can also provide useful data to other academic papers ([[Urban Start-up Agglomeration]], [[Hubs (Academic Paper)]], and [[Hubs Scorecard (Academic Paper)]]), projects ([[Houston Entrepreneurship]]) and blog posts (under the [[Emerging Ecosystems]] umbrella project).
(OUTDATED) The most recent update provided on [[Accelerator Seed List (Data)]] was on 05/21/2018. This update included the most recent '''master file''' of accelerator data, found at
E://McNair/Projects/Accelerators/Summer 2018/Connor Accelerator Work/Accelerator Master Variable List - Revised by Ed V2.xlsx
(OUTDATED) The Google Sheets Master Sheet is found here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ikuxYwp9JIRrjz4qQcbdwTpbHOne-q2PterYTjzofjw/edit?ts=5aa2f1f9#gid=0
TODO: McNair/Projects/Accelerators/Fall 2017/unfound_founders.txtA 0 means we don't have founder data for that accelerator.Specs: A tab delimited text file with the following fields: Accelerator First Name Last Name LinkedInURL(if possible)Getting the LinkedInURL will ensure accuracy, but will work without it. *Shrey: Find "demo day" keywords, so that we can search AcceleratorName Year Keyword and get back potential demo day pages It is unclear if any of these tasks have been done since the update on 05/21. I will begin by seeing which of these things have been carried out. ==Other Listed To Dos== *We have compiled a very long list of accelerators from many different databases. For the past couple of weeks, everyone in the center has been going through this list, 20 at a time, classifying each one as an accelerator or not an accelerator, and then proceeding to gather data on the accelerator using the process outlined below. This process went very smoothly. We have successfully gone through about 80% of the list. We are still missing information on the last hundred or so names. All of the collected data is located on the RDP, within the "Accelerators" folder under "Data" or on the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ikuxYwp9JIRrjz4qQcbdwTpbHOne-q2PterYTjzofjw/edit?ts=5aa2f1f9#gid=1132417337 "Accelerator Master Variable List" Google sheet].*We have listed all of the startups from the accelerators that have break out cohorts on their website on the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ikuxYwp9JIRrjz4qQcbdwTpbHOne-q2PterYTjzofjw/edit?ts=5aa2f1f9#gid=1132417337 "Accelerator Master Variable List" Google sheet]. This contains the following information in the "Cohort List (new)" sheet: accelerator name, year, cohort name, company name, description, founders, category/sector, and location. *Next steps include going through the demo day pages that have been downloaded and writing notes on the different types if possible (see [[Demo Day Page Google Classifier]]Outdated). ==Moving ForwardNecessary Steps==
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Helpful Links: http://seedrankings.com/
==Remaining To Dos==
**What stage do they look for?
'''Acquiring the necessary data to complete the Accelerator Master Variable List and the Cohort List will require the following (not necessarily in this order):'''
===Step Zero: Connect to Crunchbase and Link Data - COMPLETE===
Complete - more info: [[Crunchbase Data]]
===Step One: LinkedIn Founders Data===
