84 - 7 Findings from the New Data on Self-Funded Searches

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by a searcher from Brown University
in Arlington, VA, USA

4yrs ago

84 - 7 Findings from the New Data on Self-Funded Searches

You've probably heard of Stanford's Search Fund Study. This is a report on key data from traditional search funds in North America going back to 1984. Lots of the data about search you'll see referenced is sourced from this study. There's only one issue. The Stanford study covers traditional search funds only. It does not cover the market of self-funded search. So there's precious little data out there on trends and characteristics across self-funded searches. The very type of search that most Acquiring Minds guests did and that you are probably doing too. Well, Live Oak Bank is trying to remedy this. They've just completed a survey of self-funded searchers that they made loans to. And in this interview I talked to Live Oak's Lisa Forrest about some of the findings from this first-of-its-kind dataset. I think you'll find these interesting. Enjoy this mini episode with Lisa Forrest of Live Oak Bank.

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