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**Description: This is the very first master list we compiled of potential accelerators. Look to [[Accelerator Seed List (Data)]] for process.

**Variables: Names of potential accelerators

*'''accelerator_data_noflag'''

**Original Location: Bulk(E:)\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Spring 2017\Code+Final_Data

**Description: This text file contains the data on all accelerators that we found from our first round of research that were not flagged. It consolidates the data collected by all McNair Center interns, filtering out the organizations which are not accelerators.

**Variables: Name, Score, Flag, CohortURL, Address, Duration, Vintage, Industry, Description, Equity, Nonprofit, Notes

*'''New Crunchbase Accelerators'''

**Original Location: Bulk(E:)\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Spring 2017

**Variables: Names of Missing Accelerators

**Potential Crunchbase Variables

*'''Accelerator_Data'''

**Original Location: Bulk(E:)\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Summer 2017\Veeral

**Description: This text file contains cleaned data on all of our current accelerators. This file was compiled by Veeral over Summer 2017. Some of these accelerators are not based in the United States.

**Variables: Accelerator, homepage_url, city, region, country_code, Creation date

*'''Cleaned Cohort Data'''

**Original Location: Bulk(E:)\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Fall 2017

**Description: This Excel file contains all data on all cohort companies for our entire list of current accelerators. All missing accelerators were updated by Veeral and we have used this as our final list of cohort companies for all accelerators.

**Variables: Accelerator Name, Company Name, Description, Website, Industry, Location, Acquisition, Notes, Inverstors, Perks, Status, Funding Stage, Founder, Executive, Program, Cohort, Year

*'''ListofAccs'''

**Original Location: Bulk(E:)\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Fall 2017

**Description: This text file contains a master list of all current accelerators we have been working with.

**Variables: Accelerator name, Whois parser code

*'''Accelerator_Cohort_Companies'''

**Original Location: Bulk(E:)\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Fall 2017

**Description: This text file contains a master list of all cohort companies of all accelerators.

**Variables: Cohort Companies, Accelerator name

*'''Current Matched Data'''

**Original Location: Bulk(E:)\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Fall 2017

**Description: Sheet 1 contains our matched data from matching our SDC pull with our cohort companies list found in '''Accelerator_Cohort_Companies'''. Sheet 2 removes the duplicates from the previous match. Sheet 3 contains the list of VCCompanies, which accelerator they went through, the date of their first investment. Sheet 4 contains our cohort list matched with the crunchbase organizations, but it contains too many duplicates to use.

**Variables: VCCompanies, Accelerator, Earliest Round Date

*'''founders_linkedin'''

**Original Location: Bulk(E:)\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Fall 2017

**Description: This text file contains founder data for each accelerator found by Peter when crawling LinkedIn.

**Variables: Accelerator name, Founder name, LinkedIn URL