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#Opened source website
Accelerator Seed List (Data) (view source)
Revision as of 18:15, 29 September 2016
, 18:15, 29 September 2016no edit summary
==http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/all==
#Copied "Seed Accelerators" table to TextPad, data sorted itself into lines. Returned 235 results.
#Clicking on the accelerator name itself links to a page with all of its associated startups, up until 6/2016 cohort
*Web crawling potential is promising; startup table is located within the source for each webpage. Can also mine any category from the accelerator table
*Overall very extensive data for accelerators that are included on the list, but after cross-referencing from other sources shows that seed-db is lacking many newer accelerators; list is not all-inclusive.
*Includes regional distributions for accelerator groups as well. For example, rather than just "Techstars", the group is broken into Austin, Berlin, Boston, Boulder, etc.
==http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators==
:Very similar to "http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/all", but contains large regional accelerators as groups, rather than individual accelerators. For example, Techstars appears only once.
#Copied "Seed Accelerators" table to TextPad, data sorted itself into lines. Returned 239 results.
#Clicking on the accelerator name itself links to a page with all of its associated startups, up until 6/2016 cohort
::*Startup table includes same information as previous source, "http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/all". However, accelerators spanning across multiple regions have their startups located under one category on this webpage.
:On original seed-db webpage, each accelerator has a link to its associated home page url
::*From the table, each listed entry was an accelerator, although 24 accelerators/groups out of 239 were classified as "dead"
::*Along with the home url, each accelerator table includes the same information as the "http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/all" source
===Review===
*Reliable source for accelerators, includes list of accelerators both dead and active, as well as their associated start-ups
*Web crawling potential is promising; startup table is located within the source for each webpage. Can also mine any category from the accelerator table
*Overall very extensive data for accelerators that are included on the list, includes large groups as well as individual accelerators. It seems that some accelerators missing from "http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators/all" are located here, since there are 239 returns rather than 235.
