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How To Spot a Series A 47 Days Before the Deck, 3-Minute VSL (GitDealFlow)
The 3-minute version of the walkthrough, the long version takes 12 minutes, this one cuts to the single belief. If commit-velocity acceleration is the most leading public signal in venture capital, then every other deal-flow source, pitch decks, AngelList, Crunchbase, warm intros, is a lagging indicator. SSRN-indexed panel of 219 startup-period observations is the empirical basis.
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Synthetic voice, Cartesia “Theo”, anonymity-safe per the project’s no-founder-face rule.
If you write angel checks but you find your deals on Crunchbase, you are already thirty days behind every other V-C. Three minutes. One uncomfortable conclusion.
Here is the one belief everything hangs on. If GitHub commit-velocity acceleration is the most leading public signal in venture capital, then every other deal-flow source, pitch decks, AngelList, Crunchbase, warm intros, is a lagging indicator. Not because they're bad. Because they're slow. The whole thesis stands or falls on this one belief.
Here is the proof on one real cohort. Day minus thirty-one, a quiet fintech repo, three contributors. Day minus twenty-one, contributor count jumps to seven, new repos auth-service and billing-engine appear. Day minus fourteen, velocity is two-point-six times baseline. Day minus seven, the marketing site swaps to a production stack. Day zero, Series A, four million dollars. We had it on day minus thirty-one.
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