Research Reports and Essentials on Search Funds

The Latest News, Podcasts and Events!

The Next Step Podcast with Pete Seligman: All things Search in Australia, including our first institutional fund (Lui Pangiarella)

The second edition of the Pitcher Partner Business Radar 2021

Grant Thornton Family Business Survey 2021

Look what else we’ve found…

Acquisition vs. Ideation: Is Acquisition Entrepreneurship Your Best Bet? 2019 – Article www.entrepreneur.com

The 2018 KPMG Enterprise and Family Business Australia survey report – Family business – the balance for success

Are We Entering The Age Of The Search Fund?

Why More Entrepreneurs are Choosing To Build Search Funds over Startups

Business Set-up, Transfer and Closure (Australian Government Productivity Commission)

11 Steps in Search Fund Due Diligence

The MGI Australian Family and Private Business Survey 2013

Why You Should Buy a Business (and How to Do It)

Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship

Search Funds To The Rescue

Why More MBAs Should Buy Small Businesses

Just What You Are Looking For? – Family Office Direct Investing in Search Funds

Retiring Boomers Should Consider Selling Their Companies to Millennials

Succession Reset – Family Business Succession in the 21st Century (Pitcher Partners and Swinburne University)

Search funds are the quiet, dependable, risk-averse sibling to the startup.

An unexpected career in ETA

A look at why millennials are flocking to ETA

Coley Andrews: What it Takes to be a Search Fund Entrepreneur

2019 Jim Stein Sharpe – Is Search Right for You?

Podcasts

The Next Step Podcast with Pete Seligman

The Next Step Podcast with Pete Seligman: The Searcher Experience (Nick Bamford)

The Next Step Podcast with Pete Seligman: All things Search in Australia, including our first institutional fund (Lui Pangiarella)

Stanford Graduate School

2013 Search Fund Study: Selected Observations (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

2016 Search Fund Study: Selected Observations (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

2018 Search Fund Study: Selected Observations (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

2020 Search Fund Study: Selected Observations (Stanford Graduate School of Business).

2018 – Stanford Business How CEOs-In-Waiting Buy the Companies They Want to Run

2015 Stanford Business – What it Takes to be a Search Fund Entrepreneur

Stanford’s Search Fund Primer.  Essential reading for anyone contemplating a search fund or investing in one. You will need to enter your details to access the report.

Access the Stanford Library and read the Search Funds Death and the Afterlife 2012 and Search Fund: Best Practices for the Search Phase

IESE Business School – University of Navarra

International Search Funds – 2013: Selected Observations (IESE Business School-University of Navarra)

International Search Funds – 2016: Selected Observations (IESE Business School-University of Navarra)

International Search Funds – 2018: Selected Observations (IESE Business School-University of Navarra)

International Search Funds – 2020: Selected Observations (IESE Business School – University of Navarra)

IESE Search Fund Site

Yale University

2015 Yale – How to Prepare for a Search Fund During Your MBA

2020 Yale – The Evolution of Search Fund CEO and Company: The Arc of a 10x Outcome

Curtin University Australia

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Australia: Current Status and Recommendations. February 2021.

Useful Websites

Searchfunder.com

Jim Stein Sharpe’s Blog

Conferences

Stanford Search Fund Conf 2019 Summary and Key Learnings

Videos

Australian Investment Council – What is Private Capital?

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