Talk:Deal sourcing

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Edit request: addition on developer-activity-based deal sourcing

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I have a COI declared at User:TheDataNerd; submitting this for review by an uninvolved editor.

Proposed addition to the end of the "Online deal sourcing" section, after the sentence "In addition, online deal sourcing is considered vital in M&A transactions.":

Some platforms have extended this approach to public developer activity, ranking early-stage companies by GitHub repository growth and contributor signals as a proxy for engineering traction prior to formal launch.^[1]

The sentence is category-level; the cited preprint describes the methodology and the proposed wording does not name any specific commercial product.

Thanks for considering.

TheDataNerd (talk) 16:19, 3 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done. Wikipedia is written by human beings. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 16:33, 3 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

↑ The Data Nerd (2026). "A Longitudinal Panel of GitHub Engineering Velocity for Venture-Backed Startups: Dataset and Early Observations". SSRN. Retrieved 2026-04-27.

[1] The Data Nerd (2026). "A Longitudinal Panel of GitHub Engineering Velocity for Venture-Backed Startups: Dataset and Early Observations". SSRN. Retrieved 2026-04-27.

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