Pith Number

pith:7KMKOWV4

pith:2018:7KMKOWV4O7G2R6TZEJM72WUES3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From MVPs to pivots: a hypothesis-driven journey of two software startups

Anh Nguyen-Duc, Dron Khanna, Xiaofeng Wang

arxiv:1808.05630 v1 · 2018-08-16 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7KMKOWV4O7G2R6TZEJM72WUES3}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:07:56.130442Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa98a75abc77cda8fa792259fd5a8496ce34416b3eb7a16d2486849f52725554

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.05630 · arxiv_version: 1808.05630v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.05630 · pith_short_12: 7KMKOWV4O7G2 · pith_short_16: 7KMKOWV4O7G2R6TZ · pith_short_8: 7KMKOWV4

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7KMKOWV4O7G2R6TZEJM72WUES3 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: fa98a75abc77cda8fa792259fd5a8496ce34416b3eb7a16d2486849f52725554

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba455789a0975857ebaed8c14a8ace9a48b34a1c85053df5115ab94ea09bcc4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-16T18:16:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c426b574168df6959a5d6fd662d0b1b188942f419fd18a2a9417e9d4558945d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.05630",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}