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'''Variables Easy Difficult to Obtain'''#Twitter activity#*'''Levels:Founding Date''' ''(date_founded)'' Twitter Handle, # Tweets in a Month, # Followers, # Retweets#Site URL#*'''Level''Difficulty:''' URL#Address'' Finding date based on our strategies#*'''Level''New Approach:''' Will include all addresses'' #Nonprofit status*#Whois.net Date#*#Factavia/other press release searches #'''Multiple locations within city + Franchise'''Level:(as of now just addresses) ''(multi_address)'' Binary#*'''Approach''Difficulty:''' http://www.guidestar.org/#Mission statement'' Company or establishment level will impact measurements#*'''Level''New Approach:''' Statement'' Will record all addresses at company level#*'''Approach:Onsite Venture Capital v. Angel Investors''' If not explicitly stated mission statement, will include "About" or statements on main page(e.g. #Specific Industry#*and Assets Under Management) ''(onsite_Vc_bin)/(onsite_vc_list)'Level:''' Industry included in statement (no aggregationonsite_angel_bin)/etc.''#*'''Approach''Levels:''' *Based on Mission Statement'' Binary, not aggregated#Price for a space/officelist of investors#*'''Level''Difficulty:''' Two prices'' Hub website usually does not include investors#*'''''New Approach:''' Uses '' #*#Google key terms with address of Hub#*#Start with partners and use google methodology and not just membership, must be desk space/crunchbase

'''Variables Comfortable, Not Complete'''(rough order of most difficult to least difficult)#'''Onsite Mentorsaccelerator''' ''(onsite_accel_bin)/(onsite_accel_cnt)/(onsite_accel_list)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary, count, list#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Usually not a list, which requires more scrubbing as many other variables just require us to find one page on a website. #*''' ''Approach:'' '''#*#Google searches and procedure to use on website yields decent results#*#Similar procedure to onsite investors#'''Size (# members)''' ''(num_members)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Count for companies (currently not planning to include list of companies given that some potential hubs have 200+ members)#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Some companies don’t list all members - only selective ones-, others do not separate current members and alumni, and some just write "we have served more than 120 startups..."#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' For companies that have a list, we will count. For those with select members, we will count those they listed and try to see if there is a comment about how many they have. For those that just have a statement "with over," we will write the number and + (e.g. "120+).#'''Office hours investors#''' and '''Office hours mentor/advisors''' ''(OH_bin)/(OH_inv_bin)/(OH_inv_list)/etc.''#Sponsors*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary for OH, binary for two separate OH, list of names/Partnersdescriptions of OH#*University''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Some companies do not list who OH are with, not always obvious if investor, mentor, or advisor, sometimes not clear if mentor is investor/future investor#*Corporate#Community membership?''' ''Approach:'' ''' Google approach to get to OH pages and then lookup key words in description to separate out#'''Onsite temporary workshops and Networking Meetups ''' (Count)''(onsite_temp_events_bin)/(onsite_temp_workshop_bin)/(onsite_temp_workshop_cnt)/etc.''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary for do they exist, count for each#*Levels''' ''Difficulty: '' ''' Difficult for Turkers to differentiate between these two and also other potential events (e.g. symposiums)#Curriculum*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Uses key search terms (e.g. Java/etc.) to separate out workshops and key terms (e.g. lunch/happy hour) for networking meetings#'''Onsite code school''' and '''Curriculum''' ''(onsite_long_term_courses)/(onsite_code_school_bin)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary for do they exist, binary for each#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Difficult for Turkers to differentiate between long-term coding programs for individuals and curriculum for startups#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Uses key search terms (e.g. specific code schools) to separate out known code schools and also to look into key terms (e.g. leadership) for curriculum#'''Sponsors/Partners''' (University, Corporate) ''(sponsors_cnt)/(sponsors_list)/etc.''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Count, list of sponsors/partners (if exist), separate columns for university and corporate#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies will list sponsors, partnesrs, or either. Not always clear the difference among sponsors, partners, investors.#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Use two different levels and use of google search, then if list exists, separate by "college"/"university" and rest#'''Alumni Network''' ''(alumni_bin)/(alumni_list)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Binary, list#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies list alumni, some only list "selected"#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Include all that have lists#'''Size (sqft)''' ''(size_sqft)''#Size *''' ''Levels:'' ''' Number in sqft#*''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies list square feet online#*''' ''Approach:'' '''#*#Google search with key words#*#If results do not appear, use of press releases is possible#'''Onsite Mentors''' ''(onsite_mentors_bin)/(onsite_mentors_cnt)/(onsite_mentors_list)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Count and list of mentors (if exist)# *''' ''Difficulty:'' ''' Not all companies)list mentors - bigger issue is onsite investors#Onsite accelerator*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Use two different levels and use of google search

'''Variables Difficult Easy to Obtain'''#Founding Date'''Twitter activity''' ''(twit_handle)/(twit_prev_mon_cnt_tweets)/(twit_cnt_followers)/(twit_cnt_retweets)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Twitter Handle, # Tweets in a Month, # Followers, # Retweets#*'''Difficulty''Approach:''' Finding date based '' Easy to get twitter handle from Turk or Veeral's code that allows us to run a series of searches on our strategiesgoogle and then use Gunny's Twitter crawler to get other levels from handle#'''Site URL''' ''(url)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' URL#*'''New ''Approach:''' 1'' Google using Veeral's code that allows us to search #''' ''Whois Date'' ''' ''(date_whois) Whois.net ''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Date#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' Date, 2active website was registered#'''Address''' ''(address) Factavia/other press release searches ''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Will include all addresses#Onsite Venture Capital v. Angel Investors *''' ''Approach:'' ''' Google key terms (e.g. Contact Us) and URL using Veeral's code# and Assets Under Management'''Nonprofit status''' ''(nonprofit_binary)''#*'''''Levels:'' ''' Binary, list variable indicating if the potential Hub is a nonprofit organization#*''' ''Approach:'' ''' http://www.guidestar.org/ is a site that we can use to search if a company is nonprofit or not#'''Mission statement''' ''(missions_stmt)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Official mission statement or description of investorscompany (if mission does not exist)#*'''Difficulty''Approach:''' Hub website usually does '' If not explicitly stated mission statement, will include investors"About" or statements on main page#'''Specific Industry''' ''(spec_industry)''#*''' ''Levels:'' ''' Industry included in statement (no aggregation)#*'''New ''Approach:''' 1) google key terms with address of Hub'' *Based on Mission Statement, 2) start with partners and use google/crunchbasenot aggregated#Multiple locations within city + Franchise '''Price for a space/office''' ''(as of now just addressesprice_space)''#*'''Difficulty''Levels:''' Company or establishment level will impact measurements'' Two prices one for shared, other for private#*'''New ''Approach:''' Will record all addresses at company level'' Uses google methodology with key terms and URL[[Category: Internal]][[Internal Classification: Legacy| ]]