10-12: Acquisition Readiness
Running advanced clean room technical diligence and mitigating open-source license contamination.
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Audit Open-Source licenses (GPL)
- ✓ Organize architecture diagrams for buyers
- ✓ Ensure key-person security
Surviving Technical Due Diligence (M&A)
When a buyer models an acquisition, their CTO runs a black-box scan on your codebase. If they find copy-pasted GPL (General Public License) "viral" code inside your proprietary billing engine, it legally contaminates the asset. The deal is dead or delayed for 6 months.
A startup optimizing for a clean exit must run automated license scanning (e.g. FOSSA, Snyk) from Day 1 to ensure viral copy-left licenses never enter the core repos.
Additionally, all key architecture must be heavily documented to prove to the buyer that the product will not spontaneously implode if the founding team vests and leaves.
Deploy an automated license compliance scanner on your primary monorepo to explicitly blackhole any code requesting GPL or AGPL.
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Lesson 1: Surviving Technical Due Diligence (M&A)
When a buyer models an acquisition, their CTO runs a black-box scan on your codebase. If they find copy-pasted GPL (General Public License) "viral" code inside your proprietary billing engine, it legally contaminates the asset. The deal is dead or delayed for 6 months.A startup optimizing for a clean exit must run automated license scanning (e.g. FOSSA, Snyk) from Day 1 to ensure viral copy-left licenses never enter the core repos.Additionally, all key architecture must be heavily documented to prove to the buyer that the product will not spontaneously implode if the founding team vests and leaves.
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