Free cheat sheet — for angels, scouts & seed funds
The 14-day pattern that has preceded 219 fundraises.
TL;DR: Free one-page cheat sheet: the three-signal pattern (velocity surge, contributor spike, infrastructure buildout) that preceded 219 fundraises, with a scannable table and the 14-day window to watch. Based on the SSRN-published methodology.
Three engineering signals fire together in a two-week window. When they do, history says a round follows — 21 to 47 days before the press notices. This is the one-page version of the method, free.
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What’s on the page
Everything you need to read the signal — nothing you don’t.
No 40-page e-book, no video funnel. One printable page you can pin above your desk: the three signals, the window, the lead time, and the one question that tells you whether a startup is about to raise.
The Velocity Surge
How to read a commit-output deviation from a startup’s own baseline — the 2x–4x over 14 days that is the earliest indicator. What it looks like, and what it doesn’t.
The Contributor Spike
Why new developers joining the public repo in a concentrated window means the team is scaling before the hire announcement — and how to spot it without reading code.
The Infrastructure Buildout
New repos, new services, new architecture: the groundwork a company lays for the product that justifies the round. The signal investors almost never look for.
The 14-day window & the one question
When all three fire inside two weeks, the pattern has historically preceded a raise 82% of the time in the 219-fundraise panel. The cheat sheet ends with the one question to ask before you reach out.
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The full method lives at signals.gitdealflow.com/methodology. The cheat sheet is the plain-English version for investors who never want to read code.
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