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'''Variables Difficult to Obtain'''
#'''Founding Date'''
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Finding date based on our strategies#*'''''New Approach:'' '''
#*#Whois.net Date
#*#Factavia/other press release searches
#'''Multiple locations within city + Franchise''' (as of now just addresses)
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Company or establishment level will impact measurements#*'''''New Approach:'' ''' Will record all addresses at company level
#'''Onsite Venture Capital v. Angel Investors''' (e.g. # and Assets Under Management)
#*'' '''Levels:''' '' Binary, list of investors
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Hub website usually does not include investors#*'''''New Approach:'' '''
#*#Google key terms with address of Hub
#*#Start with partners and use google/crunchbase
#'''Onsite accelerator'''
#*'''Levels:''' Binary, count, list
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Usually not a list, which requires more scrubbing as many other variables just require us to find one page on a website. #*'''''Approach:'' '''
#*#Google searches and procedure to use on website yields decent results
#*#Similar procedure to onsite investors
#'''Size (# members)'''
#*'''Levels:''' Count for companies (currently not planning to include list of companies given that some potential hubs have 200+ members)
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Some companies don’t list all members - only selective ones-, others do not separate current members and alumni, and some just write "we have served more than 120 startups..."#*'''''Approach:'' ''' For companies that have a list, we will count. For those with select members, we will count those they listed and try to see if there is a comment about how many they have. For those that just have a statement "with over," we will write the number and + (e.g. "120+).
#'''Office hours investors''' and '''Office hours mentor/advisors'''
#*'''Levels:''' Binary for OH, binary for two separate OH, list of names/descriptions of OH
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Some companies do not list who OH are with, not always obvious if investor, mentor, or advisor, sometimes not clear if mentor is investor/future investor#*'''''Approach:'' ''' Google approach to get to OH pages and then lookup key words in description to separate out
#'''Sponsors/Partners''' (University, Corporate)
#*'''Levels:''' Count, list of sponsors/partners (if exist), separate columns for university and corporate
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies will list sponsors, partnesrs, or either#*'''''Approach:'' ''' Use two different levels and use of google search, then if list exists, separate by "college"/"university" and rest
#'''Size (sqft)'''
#*'''Levels:''' Number in sqft
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies list square feet online#*'''''Approach:'' '''
#*#Google search with key words
#*#If results do not appear, use of press releases is possible
#'''Onsite Mentors'''
#*'''Levels:''' Count and list of mentors (if exist)
#*'''''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies list mentors #*'''''Approach:'' ''' Use two different levels and use of google search
#'''Onsite temporary workshops and Networking Meetups''' (Count)
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#'''Onsite code school''' and '''Curriculum'''
#*'''Levels:'''
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#'''Alumni Network'''
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===Group 3===
#'''Twitter activity'''
#*'''Levels:''' Twitter Handle, # Tweets in a Month, # Followers, # Retweets
#*'''''Approach:'' ''' Easy to get twitter handle from Turk or Veeral's code that allows us to run a series of searches on google and then use Gunny's Twitter crawler to get other levels from handle
#'''Site URL'''
#*'''Level''Levels:'' ''' URL#*'''''Approach:'' ''' Google using Veeral's code that allows us to search
#'''Address'''
#*'''Level''Levels:'' ''' Will include all addresses#*'''''Approach:'' ''' Google key terms (e.g. Contact Us) and URL using Veeral's code
#'''Nonprofit status'''
#*'''Level''Levels:'' ''' Binary variable indicating if the potential Hub is a nonprofit organization#*'''''Approach:'' ''' http://www.guidestar.org/ is a site that we can use to search if a company is nonprofit or not
#'''Mission statement'''
#*'''Level''Levels:'' ''' Official mission statement or description of company (if mission does not exist)#*'''''Approach:'' ''' If not explicitly stated mission statement, will include "About" or statements on main page
#'''Specific Industry'''
#*'''Level''Levels:'' ''' Industry included in statement (no aggregation)#*'''''Approach:'' ''' *Based on Mission Statement, not aggregated
#'''Price for a space/office'''
#*'''Level''Levels:'' ''' Two prices one for shared, other for private#*'''''Approach:'' ''' Uses google methodology with key terms and URL
