2018 Stanford Search Fund Study

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by a searcher from Georgetown University
in 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

7yrs ago

2018 Stanford Search Fund Study

Pleased to announce that Stanford's 2018 Search Fund Study is live and online. This year, we have made a special effort to include new analyses around the compensation of entrepreneurs, as well as geographical considerations for search fund entrepreneurs.

You can find the study at the link below. We hope it is useful to the entire search fund community.

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reply by a searcher 7yrs ago
from IE Business School in Seattle, WA, USA

Very interesting - especially the part about location of searcher vs. acquired company. It'll be interesting to see if that ends up having a correlation to an increase in self-funded searchers.

reply by a searcher 7yrs ago
from Northwestern University in Bozeman, MT, USA

Interesting to see in the guide that there has not yet been an acquisition in Montana, even though there has been PE activity in the state. This is probably the start to a longer post but isn't a search fund in the same space as lower middle market PE activity?