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{{Project|Has project output=Content|Has sponsor=McNair ProjectsCenter
|Has title=Entrepreneurship Weekly Roundup
|Has owner=Meghana Gaur,
|Has start date=Fall 2016
|Has keywords=Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Small Business,
|Has project status=ActiveTabled
}}
==Project Overview==
 
The Weekly Roundup is an ongoing project for the McNair Center. Weekly Roundup posts are published Friday afternoons and cover news relating to entrepreneurship from the week (and sometimes the previous weekend). Posts cover news stories and blog posts published by credible sources, including the McNair Center. The Weekly Roundup began in the Fall 2016 term and originally focused on both Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Currently, the McNair Center is only publishing a Weekly Roundup on Entrepreneurship.
 
See [[Weekly Round-up Resources]] for information from fall 2016.
 
=Current Project Write-Up=
===RSS Feed Sources (current RSS feed uses a Google Chrome plug-in)=== Refer to RSS feeds for content selection. Current To DoRSS feeds in use utilize the Google Chrome plug-in RSS reader and cover the below sources: *[http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/venture-capital New York Times, Venture Capital]*[https://techcrunch.com/startups/ TechCrunch Startups]*[https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/venture-capital Entrepreneur: Latest Venture Capital News]*[http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/#4783d3f36ce7 Forbes - Entrepreneurs]*[https://www.theguardian.com/business/entrepreneurs The Guardian - Entrepreneurs]*[http://venturebeat.com/ VentureBeat]*[https://www.entrepreneur.com/latest Entrepreneur: Latest Articles] ===Additional Web Sources==Refer to additional online sources, including:
*[https://www.bloomberg.com/topics/startups Bloomberg - tech - startups]*[https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/entrepreneur-stories The Gaurdian - Entrepeneur stories]*[http://www.thedeal.com/ The Deal] - [https://twitter.com/TheDealNewsroom The Deal's Twitter Feed]*[https://hbr.org/ Harvard Business Review] *[https://www.wsj.com/news/business/small-business-marketing Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneurship] *[http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/smallbusiness/index.html?src=Second Semester Notes=busfn New York Times, Entrepreneurship/Small Business, Technology] - not free (x free articles a month)
For sources that have not been automated using RSS feeds=To-do/recommendations for improvement=In future terms, I recommend subscribing to electronic newsletters:the content search process for articles should be made more efficient through automation and a broader subscription base.
*[http://siliconprairienews.com/ Silicon Prairie News] (Subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[https://www.crunchbase.com/ CrunchbaseIncreased automation could be achieved by expanding the RSS feed base, as well as implementing a web crawler, Daily] (Subscribe to daily newsletter especially for free)*[http://pitchbooksources such as PitchBook and CrunchBase.com/news PitchBook, Daily Pitch] (subscribe to daily newsletter Currently the primary issue with using RSS feeds is that there isn't a standard plug-in or RSS reader for free)*[http://venturebeatall of the relevant RSS feeds.com/ Venture Beat Daily Roundup] (subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[https://techcrunch.com/ TechCrunchAdditionally, The Daily Crunch] (subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[https://www.pehubmake the content searching process more clear, research assistants who are publishing a post during the week should share their post with the research assistant in charge of the weekly roundup.com/ PE Hub Wire] (subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[https://mattermark.com/blog/ Mattermark] For future weekly roundup creators, the McNair Center should also consider setting up an e- can be useful mail account solely for editorials/blogsthe purpose of gathering weekly roundup content from VC and entrepreneurship newsletters.
These =Second Semester notes= For additional sources that have not been automated (not available via RSS feed), subscribe to electronic newsletters. Newsletters currently subscribed to include: *[http://siliconprairienews.com/ Silicon Prairie News] *[https://www.crunchbase.com/ Crunchbase, Daily] *[http://pitchbook.com/news PitchBook, Daily Pitch] *[http://venturebeat.com/ Venture Beat Daily Roundup] *[https://techcrunch.com/ TechCrunch, The Daily Crunch]*[https://www.pehub.com/ PE Hub Wire] *[https://mattermark.com/blog/ Mattermark] - useful for editorials/blogs The above newsletters are free and can be rerouted directly to a weekly roundup mailbox. For future weekly roundup creators, McNair Center could consider creating an e-mail address that can be utilized solely for the purpose of VC and entrepreneurship newsletters.
For internet sources, such as [https://pitchbook.com/news PitchBook (News & Analysis)], [https://hbr.org/the-latest Harvard Business Review], [https://mattermark.com/blog/ Mattermark] and [http://venturebeat.com/ Venture Beat], recommended search words include but are not limited to:
*venture capital
==Standardized process and format == Weekly roundup posts begin with summary coverage on blog posts that will be published by McNair Center faculty during the week. After McNair Center posts, the roundup should focus on summarizing news reports, articles, and posts from the various sources listed above.  Roundup posts are split up into two segments: *Latest news in entrepreneurship **follows reports, op-eds, and blogs from the various aforementioned sources that cover a broad variety of topics in entrepreneurship (diversity, policy, demographic trends, etc.). *Startup news**mainly focuses on updates in VC funding rounds for successful startups (often stories are found from [https://www.crunchbase.com/#/home/index CrunchBase]). Weekly roundup posts should include:* around 7-10 stories*1-2 paragraphs per story  If applicable, news stories should be linked to previous and relevant posts by McNair faculty. Share links to news stories with the social media admin (weekly roundup stories make for informative/interesting tweets). Always include links to the original source when referencing studies, reports, and surveys and including statistics/data in a write-up for a specific story.  When drafting weekly roundup posts, adhere to the McNair Center's general writing guidelines. Create a blog posts==form on the wiki page with a shareable link to the google doc that contains the roundup draft. Get another McNair Center staff member who is familiar with the blog-writing procedures at McNair to peer-edit the post before entering it into Wordpress for final review by Anne and publishing.

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