===Fall 2017===
<onlyinclude>

[[Ben Baldazo]] [[Work Logs]] [[Ben Baldazo (Work Log) | (Work Log)]]

=contributing Projects=
[[Crunchbase Data]] : I used this database and coded in "Z:\bulk\crunchbase\AccFunding.psql" to create a table connecting accelerators (just names) from [[Accelerator Seed List (Data)]] to companies that include the acclerator as an investor. Table was joined using uuids and contains names, domains, some dates (founding), and funding amounts & each column has a suffix that labels what the data regards to (a.k.a. what table it came from)

[[Houston Innovation District]]

[[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]]

[[Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project]]

[[Houston Entrepreneurship]]

[[Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)]]

[[Houston Accelerators and Incubators (Report)]]

[[Cofounding in Exchange for Equity]]

[[Start-Ups of Houston (Map)]]

=worklog=

'''2017-11-21:''' Worked with Ed to set up all of the ground work to begin joining tables for the purpose stated in yesterday's work log. Should be able to finish it upon returning next week, but until then, notes are all held within "Z:\bulk\crunchbase\AccFunding.psql" with the important parts under the header of "From Ed on 21st of Nov. To finish on Nov 27"
'''2017-11-20:''' Attempting to link 3 tables from psql crunchbasebulk to find accelerators that have invested in companies. Likely found success with the table "Acc_Funded_Cos" but the investor column is dirty, thus trying to do it cleaner with the aforementioned 3 table link
*This is all noted in "Z:\bulk\crunchbase\AccFunding.psql" and the code for "Acc_Funded_Cos" is emphasized
'''2017-09-25:''' Followed [[Talk:Ben Baldazo (Work Log)]] to create documentation infrastructure for [[Augusta Startup Ecosystem]]
</onlyinclude>

===Spring 2017===

*4/24/2017 9:30am-11:30am

*4/19/2017 2:00 - 4:00pm

*4/17/2017 2:00pm - 4:00pm

*4/12/2017 3:00pm - 5:30pm

*4/10/2017 2:00pm - 5:30pm
**Created some of the missing cohort files for the accelerator project
**Created PotentialAccelerators.txt in 'E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Crunchbase Snapshot'
***Used Organizations.csv from crunchbase and matched on "accel" "startup" and "mentor" asking that "accel" and at least one of the other two be included in the description of the organization

*4/05/2017 2:00pm - 6:00pm
**Finished code to create a percentage of VC backed marker per accelerators
**Looked over duplicates from VC data matched to Cohort Data

*4/03/2017 2:00pm - 4:00pm
**Worked with duplicates in Matches between Accelerator Cohorts and All VC data for Accelerators project. Notated what the duplicates mean
**helped teach SQL

*3/29/2017 2:00pm-5:15pm
**Filtered websites for Accelerator project using regex code

*3/22/2017 2:00pm - 5:30pm
**Began Join tables in "accelerator" database in order to find "PercentVC" amount per accelerator

*3/20/2017 2:00pm - 5:40pm
**Taught PSQL and went over future expectations for [[Houston Entrepreneurship]] page

*3/8/2017 2:00pm-5:30pm
**Ran matches between VC Data and PortCos for the Accelerator Project

*3/6/2017 2:00pm-3:00pm
**Cleaned data from VC Data and PortCos

*3/3/2017 1:00pm-4:00pm
**Refined data in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\VC_Data_Repeated_Down.txt

*3/1/2017 2:00pm-5:00pm
**Worked with the Accelerators project

*2/27/2017 3:30-5:30
**Cleaned and reuploaded data to [[Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)]]
**Worked on editing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?ts=58867bd0 Houston Issue Brief]

*2/22/2017 2:00pm-5:00pm
**Taught SDC and normalizer. Updated [[Normalizer Documentation]]

*2/20/2017 2:00pm-5:30pm
**Report on [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?ts=58867bd0 Houston Issue Brief]
**Cleaning [[Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)]]

*2/17/2017 3:00pm-5:00pm

*2/15/2017 2:00pm-3:30pm
**Report on [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?ts=58867bd0 Houston Issue Brief]
**Graphics for this in "E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\AccRank (IB)\AccRankGraphics.xlsx"

*2/13/2017 2:00pm-5:30pm
**Report on [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?ts=58867bd0 Houston Issue Brief]

*2/08/2017 2:00pm-4:00pm
**Report on [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?ts=58867bd0 Houston Issue Brief]

*2/06/2017 2:00pm-4:00pm
**Report on [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?ts=58867bd0 Houston Issue Brief]

*2/03/2017 1:00pm-5:00pm
**[[1st and Future]]

*2/01/2017 2:00pm-5:30pm
**Report on [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?ts=58867bd0 Houston Issue Brief]

===Fall 2016===

*12/02/2016 2:00pm-4:00pm
**[[Accelerator Seed List (Data)]]

*11/29/2016 1:00pm-5:00pm
**[[Accelerator Seed List (Data)]]

*11/28/2016 2:00pm-5:00pm
**[[Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)]]

*11/22/2016 2:00pm-5:30pm
**[[VC Policy Report]]

*11/21/2016 3:00pm-5:45pm
**[[VC Policy Report]]

*11/18/2016 2:00pm-5:00pm
**[[VC Policy Report]]
**Began matching tables against VC funding

*11/15/2016 1:00pm-5:20pm
**[[VC Policy Report]]
**Began putting portfolio information tables onto specific accelerator pages ex: [[TechStars]]

*11/14/2016 2:00pm-5:20pm
**[[Money In, Money Out]]

*11/11/2016 2:00pm-5:00pm
**Created tables in PSQL for Accelerator Issue Brief

*11/8/2016 1:00pm-5:00pm
**Filtered tables of multiples

*11/7/2016 3:30pm-5:30pm
**Began matching tables within PSQL to generate complete VC Data-sheets for portfolios

*11/4/2016 1pm-5pm
**Began importing and refining matcher data in PSQL for Accelerator Issue Brief

*11/1/2016 1pm-5pm
**Imported and worked tables in Houston Database for Accelerator Issue Brief

*10/31/2016 2pm-3:30pm
**Structured steps for PSQL tables
**PSQL notes in Z:\Houston\HoustonSQLNotes.txt

*10/28/2016 2pm-3:30pm
**Redid IPO Pull for more information
**Began psql to match tables and complete info for accelerator data

*10/25/2016 1pm-5:00pm
**Finished Acquisition information
**Created short term plan for future of [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]]
**Guided people to not go into wrong door for an event

*10/24/2016 2pm-4:50pm
**Finished IPO information
**Ran into difficulty with M&A pull from SDC

*10/21/2016 2pm-4:30pm
**Pulled IPO information
**Began running IPO numbers for [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]]
**Power went out at 4:30 so I left

*10/18/2016 1pm-3:30pm and 5:30pm-7pm
**Finished VC% per accelerator for [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]]
**Came back in the evening for McNair wide meeting

*10/17/2016 2pm-5pm
**Repulled portfolio lists and began updating VC % per accelerator for [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]]

[[Time Sheet]]

Late start filling out work logs during school year

===Summer 2016===

*08/01/2016
**Called in to grade Organic Chem Tests (-1 hour on time sheet)
**Created A timeline of first, last investments and founding date for companies in Houston
**Left documentation for either future self or future owner of the [[Houston Entrepreneurship]] page

*07/29/2016
**Created timelines representing the Houston area in terms of entrepreneurial growth
***Base files in 'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Venture'
***Charts in separate sheets in 'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Acc Rank IB\Charts.xlsx'
**Put more detail into documentation

*07/28/2016
**Went back and documented sql tables in Z:\Bulk\Houston\HoustonSQLNotes.txt
**Put more detail into documenting the research process
**Created tables for Accelerator Issue Brief in 'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Acc Rank IB\Charts.xlsx'

*07/26/2016 and 07/27/2016
**Finished Acquisitions, IPO and Firm name data in [[https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit?usp=sharing Accelerators Google Sheet]]
**Cleaned up and looked at stats of Benchmarkers vs. HTC and TMCx (which have the most data points of Houston companies)
**Began looking for more ways to condemn the HTC (though this one may be promising)
***Just kidding, but the HTC is seeming to do better than expected until now

*07/25/2016
**Began working with acquisitions data in SDC
**ran into a lot of bugs
**Planned out the next unbiased ranking

*07/22/2016
**Presented unbiased VC funding table to Ed (Sheet 4 from [[https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit?usp=sharing Accelerators Google Sheet]])
**Added some benchmarks
**Began adding IPOs and Acquisitions data
**Began looking at relationships between Acc and VC's
**Tomorrow need to look into: difference between Total Invested and IPO/Aquired amount
**Tomorrow need to look into: In which accelerators do mentors have skin in the game

*07/21/2016
**Matched VC to portfolios of accelerators
**Used VC info to look at accelerator performance
**Realized that in the books HTC doesn't look as bad as we thought
**Tried to come up with better industry averages (in the process)
**[[https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit?usp=sharing Accelerators Google Sheet]]

*07/20/2016
**Filled more information into [[https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit?usp=sharing Accelerators Google Sheet]]
**Narrowed the companies down with the criteria on the [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]] page
**discussed how to judge the organizations more
**Finished updated PortCo lists for companies 'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Accelerators\Updated Portfolios'
**left early to grade Organic Chem exams

*07/19/2016
**Filled more information into [[https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit?usp=sharing Accelerators Google Sheet]]
**Created chart with Dylan attempting to qualify Houston Accelerators (with 11 data points it was underwhelming)
**Perhaps we need to talk to Yael on how to judge accelerators (objectively?)
***[http://seedrankings.com/ Yael's seed rankings]
**Deciding on a better way to document accelerators
***Perhaps we need to look at VC earning companies (giving them an industry bias) then compare Market and Non
***Perhaps there's another way to measure cohorts
**Began updating cohort lists for each accelerator 'E:\McNair\Projects\Houston\Startup Source Files\Accelerators\Updated Portfolios'

*07/18/2016
**Finished documentation on how to use [[Geocode.py]]
**Began initial work and planning on how to continue with [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]]
***How to objectively judge Accelerators
***How to find this information
***How to coordinate with Dylan
**Began filling out [[https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit?usp=sharing Accelerators Google Sheet]]
**Began populating info into [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]]
**To Work on: pick objective standards to judge accelerators on
**To Work on: finish filling out [[https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit?usp=sharing Accelerators Google Sheet]]

*07/15/2016
**Added Latitude and Longitude to the Startups of Houston
**Created a map of Houston startups
**met with Ankita about wikipages
**learned about wiki templates
**created work log and research plan
**organized my wikipages under [[Houston Entrepreneurship]]
**Started planning [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]]
**Next Time: Create a page on how to use [[Geocode.py]]

[[Category:Work Log]]

2017-10-03T21:48:12Z

BenBaldazo:

[[File:BBaldazo.jpg]]

Egg Egan

2017-10-03T21:45:41Z

BenBaldazo:

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2017-10-02T20:27:26Z

BenBaldazo: Created page with "Oct. 2: 2-4pm Updated Silicon Valley stats in the powerpoint using numbers from Accelerator project, Relevant VC Data (Tay's VC file), and mining from AngelList *Couldn't find..."

Oct. 2: 2-4pm Updated Silicon Valley stats in the powerpoint using numbers from Accelerator project, Relevant VC Data (Tay's VC file), and mining from AngelList
*Couldn't find the number of Hubs but I know McNair has the info somewhere

Augusta Startup Ecosystem

2017-10-02T20:22:33Z

BenBaldazo: /* VC Data Summary */

{{McNair Projects
|Has owner=Ben Baldazo, Dylan Dickens, Joe Reilly, Taylor Jacobe,
|Has start date=9/20/2017
|Has deadline=10/6/2017
|Has notes=End product is slide deck
|Has project status=Active
}}
Link to DOC: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/15EtmjxWLLta4SZEW4PlsqxXgA-yEuuZ3OE1Ciin2yHA/edit?usp=sharing

Augusta, Georgia- Want to build a startup ecosystem around the headquarters
*University of Augusta is in the local area
*US CyberCommand is going to locate their headquarters there, and in response, they want to ensure an ecosystem exists there to pull from
**Needs recruits, programmers
*Want to build a startup ecosystem around the headquarters
*Find all of the important inno people in Georgia
**How can we piece an ecosystem together?

=VC Data Summary=

Find Data here:
There is a company level VC data file, with exits, deal type flags, dead/alive years, and round summary info in
E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem

This file is '''PortCoMaster.txt'''.

Excel File with data filtered by Tay is '''Relevant VC Data'''

Augusta, Georgia: 7 Results-
*NRF Distributors Inc, Keymarket Partners, Lexicor Medical Technology Inc, Keymarket III, Solo Cup Operating Corp, Joseph Kirschner Company Inc, and Sagamore Hill Broadcasting LLC. Only Sagamore Hill Broadcasting has received funding in the last 20 years, all the rest were earlier. '''Conclusion: Augusta's VC scene is not good at all. If only one company has been VC backed in the last 20 years, this is worrisome'''
**Sagamore Hill Broadcasting owns and operates television-broadcasting stations in the Great Lakes and Southern US. It is a joint venture of the investment firm Duff Ackerman & Goodrich of San Francisco, California and former Benedek Broadcasting and Spartan Communications executive Louis Wall (who is also CEO of the group).
*None are in the categories listed below

Atlanta, Georgia: ~550 results-
*200 of these are in the last decade; Atlanta is clearly attracting VC funding. How can we expand that success to Augusta?
*Of those in the last decade, small proportion could be cybersecurity-related:
**3 Internet Security and Transaction Services
**10 Security/Firewalls/Encryption software
**None of the other categories listed below

Charleston, South Carolina- ~30 results-
*In general, these investments are far more recent than those in Augusta, with half of these results taking place within the last decade.
*Only one Security/Firewalls/Encryption- PhishLabs
*None of the other categories listed below

Other local areas
*Athens, Georgia: 15 VC funded, 7 within last decade
*Savannah, Georgia: 5 VC funded, 1 within last decade

Silicon Valley:
Accelerators
*Included these filters on '''Relevant VC Data''': CA for state and these cities: Campbell; Cupertino; Los Altos; Los Altos Hills; Los Gatos; Milpitas; Monte Sereno; Morgan Hill; Mountain View; Palo Alto; San Fransisco; San Jose; San Mateo; Santa Clara; Saratoga; Sunnyvale
**this is the list of cities Wikipedia's page on Silicon Valley includes plus San Mateo and San Francisco
*7520 VC funded, 4220 over last decade
Incubators:
*Searched for incubators on AngelList (saved to "AngelList Silicon Valley Incubators (unfiltered).txt") but the results were definitely more than just incubators so filtered to everything that had "incub" in its name or description and added back ycombinator (Saved to "AngelList Silicon Valley Incubators (filtered).txt")

Relevant industries (at the indsubgroup level) for cyber security might be:
indsubgroup
-------------------------------------------------
Internet Security and Transaction Services
Other Electronics Related (incl. alarm systems)
Military Electronics (excluding communications)
Security/Alarm/Sensors
Security/FirewallsEncryption software
Computer Security Services
Defense Communications

Note that the original source data is in '''vcdb2''' and the script to make this data is '''augustavcdata.sql'''

==Recent Business News for Augusta==

*Building a new arena in Augusta, but unknown where the location will be: http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-09-26/regency-supporters-unmoved-arena-site-selection-presentation, http://www.wrdw.com/content/news/Coliseum-Authority-Meeting-a-Full-House-448078573.html
* New Internship program to promote sticking in Augusta to work: "The Students2Work initiative aims to place 250 Richmond County high school students in internships throughout the Augusta area – to both improve the skills they have, and to develop new skills to better prepare them for the working world." http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2017-09-06/business-education-leaders-announce-job-internship-initiative-richmond

The demand for skilled workers takes on added gravity as the region braces for an expected economic spike spurred by cyber-related businesses.

=Tasks for Ben Baldazo, Joe Reilly and Dylan Dickens on September 26=
#MOVE THIS ZIP CODE INFO TO NEW SECTION ON WIKI PAGE Determine which zip codes are associated with Augusta, Augusta University & Cyber command facility.
#*Augusta: http://zipcode.org/city/GA/AUGUSTA
#*Augusta U (zip: 30912) website: http://www.augusta.edu/
#*Fort Gordon (houses the cyber command) Zip: 30905 | Website: http://www.gordon.army.mil/
#Use Compustat to pull data on publicly traded firms in Augusta, Atlanta and Georgia.
#*See E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\Compustat (publicly traded firms)
#**"Firms on NYSE NASDAQ AMEX yr 2016" restricted pull to those exchanges of publicly traded companies over the past year
#**"Public Firms" pull from all of compustat that goes from Jan 2010 to Sept 2017
#**Excel for both of these is likely filtered to Georgia or even Augusta
#Data on Accelerators for Augusta, Atlanta, Georgia, and Silicon Valley:
#*"E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\Accelerators & Cohorts"
##*Data includes list of accelerators in Georgia & the available information on cohort companies from Georgia
##*Pulled from Accelerator_Data in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Fall 2017 : ATDC, Atlanta Ventures, CyberLaunch, NeuroLaunch, Points of Light Accelerator.
##*From http://www.acceleratorinfo.com/georgia.html: Startup Runway, TechStars Atlanta, Village Capital - HUB Grant Park, Georgia Tech - Flashpoint, Georgia Tech - VentureLab (Tech Transfer). This second list was not checked thoroughly yet.
#*To find number in Silicon valley included provinces: Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale
#**Didn’t have data on number of incubators in SV but found angellist search: https://angel.co/companies?company_types[]=Incubator&locations[]=1681-Silicon+Valley,+CA
#***The problem is that most of these aren’t incubators

#Grants Data:
#*"E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem\NIH NSF Clinical Trials for Georgia by Zip"
#*Some notes in the CKnotes.txt file
#*Notes on sourcing of this data in
#**http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/NSF_Data
#**http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/NIH_Data
#**http://mcnair.bakerinstitute.org/wiki/FDA_Trials_Data
#Get data on all VC-backed firms in Augusta, Atlanta, and Georgia.
#What data on cybersecurity startups is available from VenturExpert.
# See Anne for further assignments.

=List of publicly traded firms in Georgia=

*Firms on NYSE NASDAQ AMEX yr 2016
**An excel file list of publicly traded firms (on NYSE, NASDAQ, or American Stock Exchange), with their data for Jan 1 2016-Jan 1 2017, pulled from compustat (https://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds/ds/compm/funda/index.cfm?navId=84), can be found in E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem. It's filtered to show only Georgia companies. It's called "Firms on...". The list files also appear in E:\McNair\Projects\Publicly Traded Firms Data.

*PublicFirms
**excel and txt file of public traded firms with records since Jan 2010 across the entire compustat database. The excel file is filtered to augusta companies

* The files show (in order on the excel sheet)
**at (total assets)
**intan (intangible assets)
**intano (other intangibles)
**revt (total revenue in millions)
**xrd (research and development expense)
**exchg (stock exchange code)
**address1
**address2
**city
**zipcode
**location (country)
**naics (North American industry classification code)
**state

*Directions for pulling general data from https://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds//ds/compm/funda/index.cfm?queryID=807962 with filters for Fundamentals Annual:
**Best to do this in Internet explorer or Firefox so that once the file is completed, it can be downloaded directly (as opposed to Chrome)
*Step 1: Choose a date range
*Step 2: choose GVKEY.
*Step 3: choose data items. In the search bar below, search for information you want. You can search either the abbreviation or the description itself. Once you choose a piece of information (i.e., Stock Exchange Code), a window pops up above Step 3 indicating that you can filter by these pieces of information, in addition to having them in your output file. To filter by Stock exchange, for example, click (in the Conditional Statements window) the drop down arrow, click "Stock Exchange Code". In the far right box, input the code that corresponds to each Stock Exchange (can only be found before Stock Exchange code is selected as a variable type in Step 3. If it's selected, deselect it, find it in the search box, and click on the question mark). To add more, click either "OR" or "AND" and add another code. Select all desired variables and all desired filters on those variables.
*Step 4:
**Output format: select tab-delimited text.
**Compression type: Select none
**Date format: choose either the first option or the last one.

=Documentation=
'''E Drive Folder:'''
"E:\McNair\Projects\Innovation Districts\Augusta Startup Ecosystem"
*Files located in above folder with data pull description:
**"Firms on NYSE NASDAQ AMEX yr 2016" (both Excel and Text file): Fundamentals Annual for Jan 1 2017-Jan 1 2017, for firms traded on any of the following stock exchanges: NYSE, NASDAQ, American Stock Exchange. The variables pulled are listed in the above section
'''Z Drive Folder:'''
"Z:\Innovation Districts"
*Code document: augusta.sql
*table notes: augustaSQL_notes.txt
'''Database:'''
augusta

=Tentative Schedule=

Week of 9/25: Gather, compile, and synthesize data

Week of 10/1: Make recommendations, create slides and review with Ed

==Anticipated Paper Breakdown==
#Needs/Wants for an Startup Ecosystem
##Economic Factors
##Social Factors
##Environmental Factors
##Government aid
#Diagnosis of Augusta’s Current State
##How does it fulfill and not fulfill the requirements of an innovation district?
##What resources are available in Georgia as a whole that can be used in Augusta?
#Recommendations for how to achieve a Startup Ecosystem in Augusta
##What do we need in order to make a successful startup ecosystem in Augusta? (What is missing?)
##What would it look like?
##How do we make it happen?
###Specific suggestions

=Zip Codes=
*30901
*30903
*30907
*30909
*30999
*30904
*30905
*30906
*30912
*30914
*30916
*30917
*30919

=Georgia Accelerator Programs=

##*From Accelerator Data in E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Summer 2017\Veeral : ATDC, Atlanta Ventures, CyberLaunch, NeuroLaunch, Points of Light Accelerator.
##*From http://www.acceleratorinfo.com/georgia.html: Startup Runway, TechStars Atlanta, Village Capital - HUB Grant Park, Georgia Tech - VentureLab (Tech Transfer).

=Georgia VC Firms=

=Resources Needed=
[[File: Startup Ecosystems.png]]
Elements of a Startup Ecosystem
''Technical Skills''
*'''Education rates of local population'''
*Research on University of Augusta
*How to attract human capital?
''Risk Tolerance''
*'''Local Economic Stability'''
*'''City's Risk Preparedness'''
''Availability of Capital''
*'''VC, Equity'''
''Visible Successes''
*What has already happened there? How can we market the city to best attract human capital and create a city brand?
''Collaborative Culture''
*'''Proximity between innovators'''
*'''Transportation availability'''
*'''Accessibility to travelers'''
''Regulatory Environment''
*Potential for tax credits, types of incentives local government can offer
''Experienced Mentors''
*Who is already there who can act as a mentor?
*Who can we attract there to act as a mentor?
**'''Patent and R&D data for the area'''
''Entrepreneurial Culture''
*What creates a strong entrepreneurial culture and how can we bring that to Augusta?

=Educational Attainment=

*For Richmond County, Georgia, which includes Augusta, the US Census Bureau projects that:
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3%
**Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4%

Compared to the rest of the US:
**High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 83.3% 86.7%
*Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2011-2015 20.4% 29.8%

*source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/richmondcountygeorgia,US/PST045216