Quick List Making Tip

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Frequent asked questions:

What is Searchfunder.com?

Searchfunder.com is an online community of searchers, investors, lenders, brokers and other professionals. Over 80% of those involved in searchfunds maintain a Searchfunder account to help them network, hire, and mentor others.

What are the benefits of membership?

In addition to accessing the most active online network of business buyers, Searchfunder licenses research that is simply not cost effective for individuals. Access over 15,000 industry reports and 50,000 transaction financials. You also get monthly credits for contact information for your company sourcing campaign with the option to purchase more at drastically discounted rates. Searchfunder has pre-purchased access from these data providers in order to empower individual buyers and to help searchers level the playing field versus private equity.

Do you have deals?

While we are primarily a buy-side network, we do have hundreds of brokers that regularly post deals to the community.

Can I find an internship on Searchfunder?

Absolutely! We have the industry's largest intern job board. If you are considering a search, the first step is to help another business buyer so you can hit the ground running.

What does it cost?

Searchfunder is a subscription service. We offer flexible monthly, annual and lifetime memberships.

Monthly

$79 / month

Annual

$19 / month

Lifetime

$432 / once

Those who maintain an account with us for over 4 continuous years are permanently added to the community without the need for a membership.

Do I need an MBA to join?

While a large number of our members come from dedicated programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, Chicago Booth, and other top programs, searching is no longer reserved for the elite. With the current abundance of dry powder in private equity, and an increasing number of business owners reaching retirement age, good deals rarely go unfunded.

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by a searcher from Emory University - Goizueta Business School
in Atlanta, GA, USA

8yrs ago

Quick List Making Tip

I noticed a lot of comments and questions on here related to list making.

Whether you're curating a list of target businesses or broker intermediaries, I highly recommend Google Alerts. You just enter in the keywords that would be mentioned on a webpage or news article of interest and Google will email you a notification with a link and description based on your desired preferences.

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At any given time at our search fund, redacted, we have anywhere from 3 to dozens of Google Alerts set up in order to capture company names and websites which we later put into LinkedIn/ZoomInfo/Contactually for contact info and programatic outreach.

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reply by an investor 8yrs ago
from University of Virginia in Tampa, FL, USA

So does this work best when searching within an industry? Trying to understand exactly how this works to source new targets. Thanks for the post!

reply by a searcher 8yrs ago
from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA

Yes. Try to figure out what keywords would be mentioned on websites, press releases, etc. based on the industry sector you are targeting.