Proprietary Deal Flow

by a searcher from Stanford University

4 weeks ago

Hello,

Anyone have data (numbers or anecdotal) comparing the average timeline to complete a search via proprietary deal sourcing (e.g. cold outreach by yourself) vs sourcing through brokers?

Thank you,
Ahmed

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searcher from University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

I haven't seen anything on this. I would guess the average for proprietary is ~18 months and for brokered it's ~12 (but I also think both of these averages are rising because of increased competition)

1 day ago | like reply | 0 likes

searcher from Columbia University - Columbia Business School

This would be a great research project! Thanks fellow Wisconsinite

4 weeks ago | like reply | 1 like

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