Tag archives for search fund
Learning About Search
Learning about EtA (Entrepreneurship through Acquisition) is challenging, just like searching for a business to buy! It takes persistence, perseverance, hard work and chasing down a lot of dead ends. For entrepreneurial start-ups there is…
Why Search? Is it right for you?
Searching for a business to buy almost sounds too good to be true! You want to be an entrepreneur, but have no "great idea" to launch a start-up. Perhaps you have just completed an MBA…
Searching Internationally
An increasing number of searchers return to their "home country" to launch a search. This post is based on input from over 20 international searchers who have launched within the last 5 years and share…
Funding the Search
Determining how to fund your search process can have a significant impact while searching and afterward as a CEO and business owner. Over the past few decades, search has evolved in many ways, and in…
Searching Mid-Career
When to start an EtA (Entrepreneurship through Acquisition) search in your career can be a vexing and very personal question. Should you do it now, or wait? And if you wait, will "life" get in…
Searching as a Veteran
Military veterans have recognized that search is one of the ways they can utilize their leadership skills and fulfill their dreams to be an entrepreneur. The Post-911 GI Bill, plus the Yellow Ribbon Program, significantly…
Searching as a Woman
In the past couple of years, the number of searchers who are women has grown rapidly. Many are finding search as an attractive alternative to attaining independence and autonomy either right after getting their MBA,…
Searching as a Couple
Husband-and-wife teams searching for, purchasing and then running a business, is a special variation on selecting a partner for a search. Searching with a partner (See Blog Post: Searching with a Partner, or not!) is…
Compensation
During your search, and once you are operating the business you have purchased, you should be "reasonably" compensated for your efforts. Certainly, not at the highest level of your friends in other careers, but enough…
Cost of searching
Latest Revision: February 7, 2022 One of the key decisions in buying a business is how to pay your bills while you are searching for it. You will have search expenses, living expenses and perhaps…