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I believe this This project will be used to determine which accelerators are the most effective at churning out successful startups, as well as what characteristics are exhibited by these accelerators. First, we need to gather as much data as we can about as many accelerators as we can in order to look at what the factors differentiate successful ones are doing differently from the vs. unsuccessful onesventures.. Next, we need to create a web crawling program which will gather information about accelerators across the world by accessing their websites and extracting information. I believe that our overall goal with this research project is to gain insight into the methods of successful accelerators, as well as to find out what exactly differentiates very successful accelerators from dead accelerators.
Accelerator Seed List (Data) (view source)
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Helpful Links: http://seedrankings.com/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2016/03/11/the-best-startup-accelerators-of-2016/#38b2114624f2
=Sources=
Summary: These are sources obtained from [[List of Accelerators]] and other Google searches. We will evaluate these sources by looking at the number of accelerators they supply (as most of them are lists) and then also taking a look at the type of information they provide about each accelerator. Key data points are cohort-related data, startup-related data, and logistics of the accelerator. Better sources supply more information that the URL alone.
(Obtained from [[List of Accelerators]])
=Source Evaluations=
Summary: These evaluations couple with each of the sources above. The evaluations provide instructions for obtaining the information listed, as well as a general review of how useful the data seems. The review serves to determine whether a crawler would be suitable for obtaining information from the source autonomously.
==Source: http://www.acceleratorinfo.com/see-all.html==
=List of Sources Obtained from Various Google Searches=
Summary: These accelerators are taken from a specific Google search rather than a list. The idea is to compile a list of Google searches that return relevant results of accelerators. This will aid in the creation of a future web crawler.
==From "Location + Accelerator"(Only individual results, not lists)==
===Houston Accelerators===
=Individual Accelerator Evaluations=
==Accelerators Chosen (Format = Name (source))==
#Blue Startups (http://www.acceleratorinfo.com/see-all.html)
#Launchpad LA (http://www.acceleratorinfo.com/see-all.html)
#Y Combinator (http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators)
#FlashPoint (http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/all)
#Prosper Accelerator (https://www.f6s.com/programs?type)
#Axel Springer Plug and Play (http://www.axelspringerplugandplay.com/)
#Bolt (https://bostonstartupsguide.com/guide/every-boston-startup-accelerator-incubator/)
#AIA Accelerator (https://github.com/florianheinemann/www-corporate-accelerators-net/blob/master/_data/Accelerators.json)
#Capital Factory (http://blog.shedd.us/321987608/)
#OwlSpark (Google search: "Houston + accelerators"
