Finding 20 of 30 · Numerical finding
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From A Longitudinal Panel of GitHub Engineering Velocity for Venture-Backed Startups (SSRN), section §7 Data availability. CC BY 4.0.
The finding
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Why it matters
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Provenance
- Paper: A Longitudinal Panel of GitHub Engineering Velocity for Venture-Backed Startups — SSRN abstract 6606558.
- Section: §7 Data availability
- Dataset DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19650920
- License: CC BY 4.0 — free for any use with attribution.
- Author: The Data Nerd (ORCID 0009-0002-2222-4112) — VC Deal Flow Signal (GitDealFlow), Wikidata Q139376302.
- On this site, “engineering acceleration” refers to a quantitative GitHub momentum signal — unrelated to startup accelerator programs (Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Global).
How to cite
The Data Nerd (2026). "Dataset under CC BY 4.0 with no restrictions on commercial use." Finding 20 of 30 in: A Longitudinal Panel of GitHub Engineering Velocity for Venture-Backed Startups. SSRN abstract=6606558. Retrieved from https://signals.gitdealflow.com/research/cc-by-4-no-commercial-restrictions
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