2018 Stanford Search Fund Study

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September 26, 2018

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

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.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/2018-search-fund-study-selected-observations

Thanks!

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from Harvard University in 1970 Walton Dr, Burlington, WA 98233, USA
Awesome - love this study and this year's was a marked improvement from previous years. Regarding Figure P, the location of the search funds versus the location of the companies they acquire. Do you have a sense as to how the ultimate geography of target acquisition lined up with the stated geographic preferences of the searchers?

I'm curious because it seems that the majority of search funds don't conduct an explicitly geographic search, and yet the majority of search funds that successfully close do so on a target that is geographically proximate to the search funder(s). This would have implications for the conventional wisdom of whether or not to focus the search on a narrow geography. Thanks!.
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from Harvard University in San Francisco, CA, USA
Great work, ^redacted‌ and ^redacted‌! Such a helpful document to so many people (actually, everyone) in this community.
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