Companies And People
This page documents various bits and pieces about Companies and People, which are the primary data objects in SHC.
This is both a scratchpad for talking about new features as well as documenting what is in the codebase. If you'd like to suggest a feature, please look at the existing issues »
Name
Closed (instead of "active", only tag if closed)
Links: website, Careers page, Social media, Links
Hiring: (yes/no), Number of employees -> put in number -> public show range
People Links: Founders, Employees
Co/people links: Service Providers, Contracts
Text: High concept one phrase summary of company “Like X for Y”, Description of company (paragraph)
Classification/Category, Type
Biography
[prompts]
What do you specialize in?
What would help your company?
Also called filters on SG. This is a managed taxonomy. Companies can be part of more than one category.
Startups: businesses slated for high growth, with venture capital or not. Must be solving a new problem?
Investors: people and firms who invest in tech startups at any level. Specify level if possible.
Accelerators/Incubators: businesses (not for profit or not) who trade services, connections, and guidance for money and/or equity in startup companies.
Community Enablers: Agencies and organizations who consider their business to be affiliated with startup culture in Vancouver. Including Media/Press, Non-Profits, Coworking Spaces, Other Community Enablers, Government, Associations, Clubs, Online Communities, Foundations, Hackerspaces, Event Venues, Makerspaces.
Academic: Schools and universities who are linked through student programs, funding of programs, or otherwise to the startup economy.
Government: 100% publicly-funded agencies and government departments.
Media: Vancouver-based news sources and popular blogs
Service Providers: Paid services for startups in the form of legal services, accounting, design, SRED reimbursement, immigration consulting, and other services.
Web Consulting: a tech company or consulting agency not focused on high growth, but heavily engaged in the startup sector (like Chloi, Invoke, Brewhouse).
Established Companies: a.k.a successful startups. These are startups companies who were once considered startups, who grew very quickly, and who are now considered established tech companies by a qualitative measure of opinion.
Events: self-explanatory. We don't sync events.
These are Startup Genome's categories, and where they would fall under for WeAreYVR's: This is changing - categories will be the same for SG and for SHC
- startup (Startups)
- investor (Investors)
- venture_capital (Investors)
- angel_group (Investors)
- seed_fund (Investors)
- corporate_fund (Investors)
- accelerator (Accelerator/Incubator)
- incubator (Accelerator/Incubator)
- community_enabler (Community Enabler)
- coworking_space (Community Enabler)
- hackerspace (Community Enabler)
- media_press (Media)
- non_profit (Community Enabler)
- association (Community Enabler)
- foundation (Community Enabler)
- academic (Academic)
- government (Government)
- club (Community Enabler)
- online_community (Community Enabler)
- other (Community Enabler)
- event (Events) *we don't sync this
- service_provider (Service Providers)
Photo
Name
Contact
Age
Current Location
Past Locations
Links: social media, website
Bio
Get to know [name]_*only shows up if user fills it out. This can also be filled by a volunteer.
[prompts]
What do you need to succeed at what you’re working on?
What topics are of interest to you? What topics are on your radar?
Associated companies
Position per company Alumni (check box) Position What do you do? *drop down bars
People can add themselves to a company and indicate their role.
The roles are:
- Founder
- Employee
- Would be nice to also capture title, but don't think we can tackle that quite yet
- Freelancer / Contractor
- Board Member
- Investor
- Service Provider
- Consultant
- Advisor
- Client
- A person can add themselves as a client of something. This might overlap with user?
- User (but so overlap, copy reads: "[Name] uses X, Y, Z."
- This helps build the graph of what people use what local software / services
- Is there a better word than user?
For now, we're thinking of using these things as "tags". People can tag themselves.
- Developer - programmer, architect, team lead, etc.
- Designer - UX, graphic design, etc.
- Executive - C-level, etc.
- Investor - e.g. VC, angel, government program administrator, etc.
- Business - eg. HR, biz development, etc.
- Marketing - eg. technical marketing, product marketing, etc.
- Professional - lawyer, accountant, doctor, professor
Actively seeking a position: yes/no (only show if yes)
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