Hubs: Hubs Data

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List of Variables

As of Week of 7/25

Group 1

Variables Difficult to Obtain

  1. Founding Date
    • Difficulty: Finding date based on our strategies
    • New Approach: 1) Whois.net Date, 2) Factavia/other press release searches
  2. 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
  3. 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

  1. Onsite Mentors
  2. Office hours investors
  3. Office hours mentor/advisors
  4. Sponsors/Partners
    • University
    • Corporate
  5. Community membership?
  6. Onsite temporary workshops and Networking Meetups (Count)
    • Levels:
  7. Curriculum
  8. Onsite code school
  9. Alumni Network
  10. Size (sqft)
  11. Size (# companies)
  12. Onsite accelerator

Group 3

Variables Easy to Obtain

  1. 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
  2. Site URL
    • Level: URL
    • Approach: Google using Veeral's code that allows us to search
  3. Address
    • Level: Will include all addresses
    • Approach: Google key terms (e.g. Contact Us) and URL using Veeral's code
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Specific Industry
    • Level: Industry included in statement (no aggregation)
    • Approach: *Based on Mission Statement, not aggregated
  7. Price for a space/office
    • Level: Two prices one for shared, other for private
    • Approach: Uses google methodology with key terms and URL