Houston Entrepreneurship

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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

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

File:HSM10.xlsx

File:HSM11.xlsx

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