Houston Entrepreneurship
Houston has vast opportunities and resources for an entrepreneurial mindset to take advantage of: extensive networks of philanthropists, the medical center, and oil money, just to name a few. This page is dedicated to diagraming what Houston has to show for this.
Projects
Houston Accelerators (issue brief)
Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project
Entrepreneurship Ecosystems of Houston (Issue Brief)
Preliminary Artifacts Location
'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Acc Rank (IB)\Charts.xlsx'
Startups
http://www.mcnaircenter.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Startups&action=edit&redlink=1
HSM11
E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\HSM11.xlsx
Z:\Bulk\Houston\HSM11.txt
- Either above will work.
- Sources are listed in file E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\HSMPriority.xlsx
- This sheet explains in which order I pulled the information into the spreadsheet (and consequently the sources I pulled from)
- In case you're lazy here are the names:
| Startup Lists | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| List | Entries | Location | Notes |
| AngelList | 500 | https://angel.co/ | Under Houston and Startups Filters |
| HoustonStartupsList | 283 | http://houston.startups-list.com/ | |
| StartupBlinkMap | 379 | http://www.startupblink.com/ | Within Houston Area |
| Startups-Accelerators | 292 | From Accelerators Websites | |
| SDC VC Houston Port Cos | 493 | Pulled from Thomson Reuters SDC Venture Data | Pull was from Venture Data in Houston MSA |
| CrunchBase | 116 | https://www.crunchbase.com | Under Houston. Not much data could be pulled in mass |
| StartHouston | 27 | http://www.starthouston.com/people/startups/ | This should possibly have been included in Startups-Accelerators but it was a late addition |
| VeeralURL | Updated 27 | E:\McNair\Software\Scripts\Gscript2.py | Used a program that looked for additional websites on google |
| HSMWhoIsParser | Updated anything with a website | E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\WhoIsParser\WhoIsParser.pl | Program that mines website registration |
| PortCoToVC | Updated all entries from the VC pull | E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Startups\PortCoToVC.txt | SDC Pull that shows which VC firms invested in a Company |
Accelerators
Venture Capital
Firms in Houston: File:SDCVentureHoustonList.txt
'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Venture'
Most of these (if not all) are from SDC pulls.
File Locations
E:\McNair\Projects\Houston
Database
Z:\Bulk\Houston
Code Held in:
Z:\Bulk\Houston\Houston.sql
Notation of all tables and a few other documentations held:
Z:\Bulk\Houston\HoustonSQLNotes.txt
- Look here to see if a table has already been made or if there's a newer version of a certain table
