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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International — the most permissive of the standard CC licenses, requiring only attribution. CC BY 4.0 permits commercial use, modification, and redistribution. VC Deal Flow Signal licenses every public surface (the dataset, the SSRN paper, the methodology, the answers corpus, the OpenAPI spec) under CC BY 4.0, with the citation string requested in /citation-guide.
SSRN, Zenodo, OpenAlex, DOIs, licenses.
A 0–100 score computed from a GitHub user's public starring history, measuring how many validated unicorn outcomes the user starred before the funding, acquisition, or $1B-valuation event.
A working-paper deposit on SSRN (Social Science Research Network), the standard preprint server for finance and business research.
A persistent Digital Object Identifier minted by Zenodo (a CERN-operated open-access repository) for a dataset or software release.
An open scholarly knowledge graph from OurResearch that mirrors Microsoft Academic Graph's structure but with no institutional gating.
A non-profit registration agency for DOIs assigned to research data, software, and grey literature.
An ORCID iD is a persistent digital identifier for individual researchers, used to disambiguate authorship across publishers and preprint servers.
A Digital Object Identifier — a persistent identifier for an electronic document or dataset, resolved through doi.
A Schema.
This definition is published under CC BY 4.0. Cite as:
The Data Nerd. "CC BY 4.0 License." VC Deal Flow Signal Glossary, https://signals.gitdealflow.com/define/cc-by-4-0.
The free Acceleration Watch turns terms like CC BY 4.0 License into five named, accelerating startups every Sunday — translated into plain English, 21 to 47 days before the deck circulates. No code-reading, no card.