Research Reports and Essentials on Search Funds
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The second edition of the Pitcher Partner Business Radar 2021
Grant Thornton Family Business Survey 2021
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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
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
Search funds are the quiet, dependable, risk-averse sibling to the startup.
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)
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
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
Conferences
Stanford Search Fund Conf 2019 Summary and Key Learnings
Videos
Australian Investment Council – What is Private Capital?
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