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===Spring 2018=== <onlyinclude> 2018-03-06:Troubleshot Key Terms program with Christy, continued to read articles.  2018-03-05: Tested the Key Terms program, found it not to be working. Troubleshot and alerted Christy. 2018-03-01: Started to read articles for key-terms testing.  2018-02-28: Adjusted some wiki pages, started testing the revamped tools.  2018-02-27: Drafted email with concerns to Ed, met with Ed to resolve concerns. Created action plan of testing the revamped tools and codifying a subset of known papers.  2018-02-26: Reviewed Christy's new documentation, prepared to meet with Ed.  2018-02-22: Tested RegEx-Excel Filter process, flagged some additional questions that need guidance from Ed. Met with Christy and worked to resolve coding issues.  2018-02-21: Finished RegEx-Excel Filter process, spoke with Ed about long-term goals of project. 2018-02-20: Continued working on the RegEx-Excel filter. 2018-02-19: Continued working on the RegEx-Excel filter. 2018-02-15: Started developing a RegEx and Excel filter for processing and cross-referencing sources.  2018-02-14: Identified the status of all codes. Drafted an email to Christy about retunring temporarily to help with the codes. 2018-02-13: Ran the KeyTerms and PDF Converter Python Codes. 2018-02-12: Finished troubleshooting crawler, reached out to Ed for guidance. Was redirected to testing Key Terms code. 2018-02-07: Troubleshot the crawler with Christy. 2018-02-06: Troubleshot the crawler with Christy. 2018-02-05: Reached out to Ed for guidance, was redirected to testing the scholar crawler.  2018-02-01: Continued PDF - BibTex filtering 2018-01-31: Started PDF - BibTex filtering process as per meetings with Christy and Lauren. 2018-01-30: Met with both Christy and Lauren.  2018-01-29: Reviewed the current state of PTLR project in order to prepare for meetings on Tuesday. 2018-01-26: Assisted with the McNair Center Event.  2018-01-25: Reached out to previous project owners to gather information for next steps. Was on standby to assist with the [[Lyceum Research Page]]  2018-01-24: Searched for tools to accomplish the strategies outlined in [[Patent Thicket Strategic Planning]]. Had a hard time locating anything, or getting a good grasp on where exactly the project is and what it needs. Gathered contact information for previous owners to make communications later this week. Also continued to prep the [[CategoryLyceum Research Page]] for Ed.  2018-01-23:Work LogFinished [[Patent Thicket Strategic Planning]]and sent to Ed. Ed approved.  2018-01-22: Read Patent Thicket literature. Met with Ed to discuss broad strategy, began planning for next steps. [[Patent Thicket Strategic Planning]] 2018-01-18: Met with Ed to discuss Patent Thicket Project. Helped complete his research for the Amazon HQ2 Report. 2018-01-11: Finalized sourcing for Venture Capital Gap for Women 2018-01-10: Sourced all of Venture Capital Gap for Women, downloaded PDF's for about 3/4 of sources 2018-01-09: Found additional sources on the Venture Capital Gap for Women, as well as Fondren availability for a portion of the sources. </onlyinclude> ===Fall 2017=== 2017-12-1: Matched additional files for the [[Estimating Unobserved Complementarities between Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists]] project 2017-11-30: Matched files for Ed, documented work on [[Estimating Unobserved Complementarities between Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists]] 2017-11-29:Compiled the [[Lyceum Research Page]], hunted for Ben's Accelerator data 2017-11-14: Created and started filling the [[Lyceum Research Page]]. 2017-11-13: Update work logs, worked to produce VC Firm table for Ed and Diane. Saved in \Projects\Houston\2017 VC Project\VC Data 2017-11-08: Generated the [[Dylan Dickens's Filter Method]] page.  2017-11-07: Conducted second lesson also demonstrating proper graph construction.  2017-11-06: Cleaned data in preparation for Pivot Table lesson with Anne. Conducted first lesson.  2017-1-01: Finalized work on artifacts for Ed. Sent in the requested graphs. ===Spring 2017=== 01/09/2017 - Drafted tweets that were on backlog from over break 01/11/2017 - Broke down and disposed of boxes, drafted tweets, worked on accelerator sheets 01/18/2017 - Drafted backlog tweets, worked on accelerator sheets 1/23/2017 - Started Report on Houston 1/30/2017 - Continued Report on Houston 2/01/2017 - Continued Report on Houston 2/06/2017 - Worked on Accenture Project 2/08/2017 - Worked on Accenture Project 2/13/2017 - Worked on Accenture Project, Worked on Houston report, fixed some Wiki security issues 2/15/2017 - Worked on Accenture Project 2/20/2017 - Googled M&A data for Accenture, finished up draft for Report on Houston, started SDC pulls for potential Market v non-market 2/22/2017 - Ran pulls for Market v NonMarket, helped develop methodology 2/27/2017 - Pulled for Market v NonMarket, cleaned data 3/1/2017 - Built potential artifacts for [[VC Report Houston 2017]] 3/6/2017 - Cleaned up and built a new artifacts for [[VC Report Houston 2017]] 3/8/2017 - Cleaned up and built a new artifacts for [[VC Report Houston 2017]] 3/20/2017 - Finalized Artifacts for [[VC Report Houston 2017]] 3/23/2017 - Attempted to find Count of Live Companies per Year 1986-2016 3/27/2017 - Edited Report on Houston 3/29/2017 - Edited Report on Houston 4/3/2017 - Built artifacts for Report on Houston Entrepreneurship Institutions and Report on VC in Houston 4/5/2017 - Set up "adobe" account 4/10/2017 - Finished Timeline Artifact, Started descriptive paragraphs 4/12/2017 - Continued Descriptive paragraphs 4/17/2017 - Finished Descriptive paragraphs 4/19/2017 - Tweaked artifacts for Issue Brief 5/2/2017 - Cleared backlogged tweets. Updated portfolios for Houston Institutions 5/3/2017 - Confirmed data for Houston Institutions 5/4/2017 - Started updating artifacts for Houston Institutions 5/5/2017 - Finished updating artifacts for Houston Institutions 5/8/2017 -Finalized artifacts for Houston Institutions. Began standardizing Houston Investment artifacts. Started updating services provided.  5/9/2017 - Produced artifacts for reports. 5/10/2017 - Last day, cranked out artifacts for all three reports.  ===Fall 2016=== 09/26/2016 - Tested various links on blog, readjusted layout, finalized and pushed out the 2/3 election series posts 09/27/2016 - Remotely sourced the 2016 blog post, made minor tweaks to the other two 10/03/2016 - Worked to fix semantics and usability for the SBDE project, as well as planning out some aspects of the overall concept. 10/04/2016 - Worked to finalize the Trump|Pence blog post with Ed 10/06/2016 - Worked to finalize the Clinton|Kaine blog post with Ed 10/07/2016 - Worked remotely to sign off on the three blog posts. 10/13/2016 - Continued to work on the [[Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project]] by finding and sourcing updated cohort lists. 10/17/2016 -Calculated new VC % for the [[Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project]] and updated the Immigration and Entrepreneurship Blog Post 10/20/2016 -Produced updated SBDE map on CARTO, edited CSV/HTML for map list. Continued to find updated Acquisition lists for the [[Work LogsHouston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project]]  10/24/2016 -Edited and sent in first draft of a [[Dylan Dickens Entrepreneurship as Foreign Policy (Work LogBlog Post)|]] to Anne, and started writing an outline for the [[Start-Up Guide (log Issue Brief)]] with Ben. 10/31/2016 -Happy Halloween! Fixed up the Semantic wiki pageand adjusted so all of my Blog Drafts are saved. Updated drafts for both [[Swedish Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]]and [[Entrepreneurship as Foreign Policy (Blog Post)]]. Continued to write policy outline for [[Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)]] with Ben. 1/1/2016 -Continued to craft the Institution template. Could not get headers of IPO % functionality perfect, but got an image and general format. Continued to Flush out [[HHV's NextHIT]] subpage. Updated all wiki pages of blog posts to have functional google doc links. 11/3/2016 -Finished [[HHV's NextHIT]] subpage. Started SURGE. 11/7/2016 -Focused on Preparing blog posts, got What is Venture Capital, Innovation and the U.S. Military, and Business Dynamism out to peer editors 11/8/2016 - Edited Innovation and the U.S. Military, and Business Dynamism after peer, sent to Anne 11/10/2016 - Edited What is Venture Capital after peer, sent to Anne 11/14/2016 - Focused on [[Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)]], created subpages for [[SURGE]], [[Redhouse Associates]], [[OwlSpark]], [[TMCx]], [[RED Labs]] and [[HTC]]. 11/15/2016 - Was rerouted to Council of Economic Advisers project 11/17/2016 - Started [[Fannin Innovation Studio]] subpage, helped Ed with finding small business GDP data. 11/21/2016 - Searched for Small Business Data for Ed, located FDIC data. 11/22/2016 - Converted FDIC pulls into normalized Excel files for Ed 11/28/2016 - Finished producing "qualitative" text for the [[Start-Up Guide (Issue Brief)]], flushing out all subpages. Learned RegEx to start accelerator .txt files 11/29/2016 - Built accelerator .txt headers w/ Ed, made sheets for accelerators #381-#385 12/01/2016 - Made sheets for accelerators #385-#393 12/05/2016 - Continued to build accelerator sheets 12/08/2016 - Continued to build accelerator sheets 12/14/2016 - Edited blog posts, worked on ecosystem project 12/15/2016 - Input interview slots, drafted tweets, designed graphs 12/16/2016 - Drafted Tweets, cleaned wiki pages, on-call for graph design 12/19/2016 - Half-day, helped Anne adjust hiring procedures, printed CV's and Abstracts, helped find graphics for blog posts

06/10/2016 505:00 - Finished first draft of [[Social Media Usage in Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] and [[Houston SBA Loans (Blog Post)]] 06/13/2016 05:00 - Finished first draft of [[Business Dynamism in High Tech (Blog Post)]] and [[Navigating the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (Vlog)]] 06/14/2016 05:00 - Finished first draft of [[Patent Trolls (Blog Post)]] and [[Small Business' Best Import (Blog Post)]] 06/15/2016 04:48 - Finished first draft of [[Economic Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs on America (Blog Post)]] 06/16/2016 05:00 - Finished first draft of [[En Bra Uppfattning (Blog Post)]] 06/17/2016 05:00 - Finished first draft of [[Poaching and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] 06/20/2016 05:00 - Finished first draft of [[Tackling Stagnation of Texas Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] 06/21/2016 05:00 - Researched for potential info on Muslim entrepreneurs, was diverted to Wiki Maintenance. 06/22/2016 05:00 -Continued with Wiki Maintenance and Muslim entrepreneur research  06/23/2026 05:00 -Did the privacy policy and stuff for wiki. Finished first draft of[[Muslim Entrepreneurs (Issue Brief)]] 06/24/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[The Brexit and Entrepreneurship (Report)]] 06/29/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[Theories of Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]]

06/1328/2016 505:00 - Finished first draft of [[Business Dynamism in High Tech Measuring Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]] and [[Navigating the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (Vlog)]]

06/1429/2016 12:30 -Finished reviewing NHL Paper 06/29/2016 05:00 -Calculated firm birth rate for U.S. per dollar of VC 06/30/2016 05:00 -Continued to try and find firm birth rate statistics for various nations, found some for Israel, Canada and France but decided not worth time at the moment. Started first draft of [[5 Myths about Venture Capital (Blog Post)]] 07/01/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[Predicting Venture Capital (Blog Post)]] 07/05/2016 05:00 -Cleaned up wiki, finished first draft of [[Defining Venture Capital (Blog Post)]] by re-purposing the start of [[5 Myths about Venture Capital (Blog Post)]], and conducted research on GIS sources and data. 07/06/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[Innovation and the U.S. Military (Blog Post)]] Though I think I may develop into a more long format tomorrow, could be a good policy proposal. 07/07/2016 05:00 -Started first draft of [[Strategic Innovation Investment and the U.S. Military (Policy Report)]] plan to finish tomorrow. 07/08/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[Strategic Innovation Investment and the U.S. Military (Policy Report)]]. 07/11/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[Clinton and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]]. 07/12/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[The ACA and Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]]. 07/13/2016 12:30 -Organized the [[Blog Series Planning]] page, started [[Importance of Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]]. 07/13/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[Importance of Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]]. 07/15/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]]. 07/18/2016 5:00 - Finished first draft of [[Patent Trolls Trump and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]]. 07/19/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of [[Economic Regulation and Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]]. 07/20/2016 05:00 - Finished final drafts of [[Importance of Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]], [[The ACA and Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]], [[Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]], [[Economic Regulation and Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]] , [[Clinton and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], and [[Small BusinessTrump and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]]. Also finished a rough draft of Bob McNair' Best Import s biography. 07/21/2016 05:00 -Investigated feasibility of a blog post on Gary Johnson, William Weld, and the Libertarian party, found none. Assembled and began to analyze VC data against industry averages with Ben for the [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]] 07/22/2016 05:00 -Continued to calculate benchmark statistics for Ycombinator and Tech Stars 07/25/2016 05:00 -Reworked edits on [[Importance of Entrepreneurship in the 2016 Election (Blog Post)]], created record pages on Clinton, Pence, and Kaine. 07/26/2016 05:00 -Reworked edits on [[Clinton and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], and [[Trump and Entrepreneurship (Blog Post)]], sent Anne editable copies of all written posts 07/27/2016 05:00 -Finished first draft of Entrepreneurship as Foreign Policy (Blog Post) and helped compile data for the [[Houston Accelerators (issue brief)]]. 07/28/2016-08/04/2016 - In Doha 08/05/2016 05:00 -Worked on Houston Ecosystem spreadsheet w/ Ben, learned all I needed to take it on individually 08/08/2016 05:00 -Worked on Houston Ecosystem spreadsheet 08/09/2016 05:00 -Worked on Houston Ecosystem spreadsheet, helped design blog 08/10/2016 05:00 -Worked on Houston Ecosystem spreadsheet, edited McNair Bio Added from main work log page: 9/23/2016 2:00-4:30 Introductory explanation/exploration, helped Catherine find source for Ed  9/26/2016 2:00-4:00 Began research for blog post about largely unknown entrepreneurial hubs, checked links on McNair Center blog  9/27/2016 4:00-6:00 Set up personal and work log pages, researched for blog post [[Category:Work Log]]