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The current write up of the Houston Accelerator issue brief is here: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?usp=sharing_eip&ts=58a4c002
  
 
[[Guide to Small Business in Houston]]
 
[[Guide to Small Business in Houston]]

Revision as of 18:13, 13 March 2017

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

The current write up of the Houston Accelerator issue brief is here: https://docs.google.com/a/rice.edu/document/d/1RwXuZmB6gKxgOlyoco0dTigIZ0xf185dwDgLZnVTvgY/edit?usp=sharing_eip&ts=58a4c002

Guide to Small Business in Houston

Houston Accelerators (issue brief)

Houston Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project

Entrepreneurship Ecosystems of Houston (Issue Brief)

Entrepreneurship Ecosystem of Houston (Blog Post)

Start-Ups of Houston (Map)

Houston Accelerators and Incubators (Report)

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)
    • I've also added a subjective measure from 1 to 3 of how valuable I think the data is.
    • In case you're lazy here are the names:
  • Side Note: there are notes in the database drive under Z:\Bulk\Houston\HoustonSQLNotes.txt
    • Or there's also the code in Z:\Bulk\Houston\Houston.sql
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

File:HouAccList.xlsx

Accelerator Rankings

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PLWEyBypWldls997BzWWhF9RwCo1JRPxNJPjwPNOhk4/edit#gid=0

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