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'''As of Week of 7/25''' | '''As of Week of 7/25''' | ||
===Group 1=== | ===Group 1=== | ||
| + | '''Variables Difficult to Obtain''' | ||
| + | #Founding Date | ||
| + | #*'''Difficulty:''' Finding date based on our strategies | ||
| + | #*'''New Approach:''' 1) Whois.net Date, 2) Factavia/other press release searches | ||
| + | #Multiple locations within city + Franchise (as of now just addresses) | ||
| + | #*'''Difficulty:''' Company or establishment level will impact measurements | ||
| + | #*'''New Approach:''' Will record all addresses at company level | ||
| + | #Onsite Venture Capital v. Angel Investors (e.g. # and Assets Under Management) | ||
| + | #*'''Levels:''' Binary, list of investors | ||
| + | #*'''Difficulty:''' Hub website usually does not include investors | ||
| + | #*'''New Approach:''' 1) google key terms with address of Hub, 2) start with partners and use google/crunchbase | ||
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| + | ===Group 2=== | ||
| + | '''Variables Comfortable, Not Complete''' | ||
| + | #Onsite Mentors | ||
| + | #Office hours investors | ||
| + | #Office hours mentor/advisors | ||
| + | #Sponsors/Partners | ||
| + | #*University | ||
| + | #*Corporate | ||
| + | #Community membership? | ||
| + | #Onsite temporary workshops and Networking Meetups (Count) | ||
| + | #* | ||
| + | #*Levels: | ||
| + | #Curriculum | ||
| + | #Onsite code school | ||
| + | #Alumni Network | ||
| + | #Size (sqft) | ||
| + | #Size (# companies) | ||
| + | #Onsite accelerator | ||
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| + | ===Group 3=== | ||
'''Variables Easy to Obtain''' | '''Variables Easy to Obtain''' | ||
#Twitter activity | #Twitter activity | ||
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#*'''Level:''' Two prices one for shared, other for private | #*'''Level:''' Two prices one for shared, other for private | ||
#*'''Approach:''' Uses google methodology with key terms and URL | #*'''Approach:''' Uses google methodology with key terms and URL | ||
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Revision as of 18:04, 25 July 2016
List of Variables
As of Week of 7/25
Group 1
Variables Difficult to Obtain
- Founding Date
- Difficulty: Finding date based on our strategies
- New Approach: 1) Whois.net Date, 2) Factavia/other press release searches
- Multiple locations within city + Franchise (as of now just addresses)
- Difficulty: Company or establishment level will impact measurements
- New Approach: Will record all addresses at company level
- Onsite Venture Capital v. Angel Investors (e.g. # and Assets Under Management)
- Levels: Binary, list of investors
- Difficulty: Hub website usually does not include investors
- New Approach: 1) google key terms with address of Hub, 2) start with partners and use google/crunchbase
Group 2
Variables Comfortable, Not Complete
- Onsite Mentors
- Office hours investors
- Office hours mentor/advisors
- Sponsors/Partners
- University
- Corporate
- Community membership?
- Onsite temporary workshops and Networking Meetups (Count)
- Levels:
- Curriculum
- Onsite code school
- Alumni Network
- Size (sqft)
- Size (# companies)
- Onsite accelerator
Group 3
Variables Easy to Obtain
- Twitter activity
- Levels: Twitter Handle, # Tweets in a Month, # Followers, # Retweets
- Approach: Easy to get twitter handle from Turk or Veeral's code that allows us to run a series of searches on google and then use Gunny's Twitter crawler to get other levels from handle
- Site URL
- Level: URL
- Approach: Google using Veeral's code that allows us to search
- Address
- Level: Will include all addresses
- Approach: Google key terms (e.g. Contact Us) and URL using Veeral's code
- Nonprofit status
- Level: Binary 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
- Level: Official mission statement or description of company (if mission does not exist)
- Approach: If not explicitly stated mission statement, will include "About" or statements on main page
- Specific Industry
- Level: Industry included in statement (no aggregation)
- Approach: *Based on Mission Statement, not aggregated
- Price for a space/office
- Level: Two prices one for shared, other for private
- Approach: Uses google methodology with key terms and URL
