ETA Books

by a searcher from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

1 month ago

I was wondering if anyone else has pre-ordered or plans to read Main Street Millionaire How to Make Extraordinary Wealth Buying Ordinary Businesses Book by Codie Sanchez?

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searcher from Babson College - F.W. Olin Graduate School

I think you will be better reading other books instead. The comments above share a lot of books that I would recommend. Specially the Buy Then Build and HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. Podcasts such as Acquiring Minds, Think Like an Owner and Think Big Buy Small are great resources.
There's a podcast called Cracks by Oso Trava (It's in Spanish), but he did an interview with German Canale who did a Traditional Search in Mexico and bought an Ice Manufacturing and Distribution Company. Great listen.
Would also recommend the book The Outsiders by William Thorndike. Great read on capital allocation.

With all that said, I'm looking into reading Codie's book, just to broaden my perspective. Although I find her a little too mainstream.

2 weeks ago | like reply | 0 likes

investor from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

There are some good recommendations on PE and buyouts above, and to add to that Jan Simon literally wrote THE book on ETA. Jan is founder/GP at Vonzeo (a search fund of funds) and professor at IESE for ETA, so he knows exactly what he is talking about.

3 weeks ago | like reply | 0 likes

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