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{{Project|Has project output=Content|Has sponsor=McNair ProjectsCenter
|Has title=Entrepreneurship Weekly Roundup
|Has owner=Meghana Gaur,
|Has start date=Fall 2016
|Has keywords=Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, Small Business,
|Has project status=ActiveTabled
}}
==Project Overview==
The Weekly Roundup is an ongoing project for the McNair Center. Weekly Roundup posts are published Friday afternoons and cover news relating to entrepreneurship from the week (and sometimes the previous weekend). Posts cover news stories and blog posts published by credible sources, including the McNair Center. The Weekly Roundup began in the Fall 2016 term and originally focused on both Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Currently, the McNair Center is only publishing a Weekly Roundup on Entrepreneurship.
See [[Weekly Round-up Resources]] for information from fall 2016.
=Current Project Write-Up=
Refer to additional online sources, including:
*[https://www.bloomberg.com/topics/startups Bloomberg - tech - startups]
*[https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/entrepreneur-stories The Gaurdian - Entrepeneur stories]
*[http://www.thedeal.com/ The Deal] - [https://twitter.com/TheDealNewsroom The Deal's Twitter Feed]
*[http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/smallbusiness/index.html?src=busfn New York Times, Entrepreneurship/Small Business, Technology] - not free (x free articles a month)
=To-do/Recommendations recommendations for Improvementimprovement=In future terms, the content search process for articles should be made more efficient through further automation. Increased automation could be achieved by expanding the RSS feed base, as well as implementing a web crawler, especially for sources such as PitchBook and CrunchBase. Currently the primary issue with using RSS feeds is that there isn't a standard plug-in or RSS reader for all of the relevant RSS feedsbroader subscription base.
*Increased automation could be achieved by expanding the RSS feed base, as well as implementing a web crawler, especially for sources such as PitchBook and CrunchBase. Currently the primary issue with using RSS feeds is that there isn't a standard plug-in or RSS reader for all of the relevant RSS feeds. *Additionally, to make the content searching process more clear, research assistants who are publishing a post during the week should share their post with the research assistant in charge of the weekly roundup.*For future weekly roundup creators, the McNair Center should also consider setting up an e-mail account solely for the purpose of gathering weekly roundup content from VC and entrepreneurship newsletters.
=Second Semester Notesnotes=
For additional sources that have not been automated (not available via RSS feed), subscribe to electronic newsletters. Newsletters currently subscribed to include:
*[http://siliconprairienews.com/ Silicon Prairie News] (Subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[https://www.crunchbase.com/ Crunchbase, Daily] (Subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[http://pitchbook.com/news PitchBook, Daily Pitch] (subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[http://venturebeat.com/ Venture Beat Daily Roundup] (subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[https://techcrunch.com/ TechCrunch, The Daily Crunch] (subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[https://www.pehub.com/ PE Hub Wire] (subscribe to daily newsletter for free)*[https://mattermark.com/blog/ Mattermark] - can be useful for editorials/blogs
The above newsletters are free and can be rerouted directly to a weekly roundup mailbox. For future weekly roundup creators, McNair Center should consider setting up an e-mail account that can be utilized solely for the purpose of gathering weekly roundup content from VC and entrepreneurship newsletters.
For internet sources, such as [https://pitchbook.com/news PitchBook (News & Analysis)], [https://hbr.org/the-latest Harvard Business Review], [https://mattermark.com/blog/ Mattermark] and [http://venturebeat.com/ Venture Beat], recommended search words include but are not limited to:
*venture capital
==Standardized process and format for blog posts==
Weekly Roundup roundup posts begin with summary coverage on blog posts/reports that will be published by McNair Center faculty during the same week. After McNair Center posts, the roundup should focus on summarizing news reports, articles, and posts from the various sources listed above.
*Latest news in entrepreneurship
**follows reports, op-eds, and blogs from the various aforementioned sources that cover a broad variety of topics in entrepreneurship (diversity, policy, demographic trends, etc.).
*1-2 paragraphs per story
If applicable, news stories should be linked to previous and relevant posts by McNair faculty. Share links to news stories with the social media admin (weekly roundup stories make for informative/interesting tweets). Always include links to the original source when referencing studies, reports, and surveys and including statistics/data in a write-up for a specific story. When drafting weekly roundup posts, adhere to the McNair Center's general writing guidelines and create . Create a blog form on the wiki page with a shareable link to the google doc that contains the roundup draft. Get another McNair Center staff member who is familiar with the blog-writing procedures at McNair to peer-edit the post before entering it into Wordpress for final review by Anne and publishing.
