Sharing my system for finding and analyzing great deals, at scale

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by a searcher from Stevens Institute of Technology
in Orlando, FL, USA

2yrs ago

Sharing my system for finding and analyzing great deals, at scale

If anyone is looking for a way to systemize their deal sourcing and due diligence analysis, then you'll probably appreciate this quick walkthrough of a tool I created and shared 3+ years ago with another alternative finance group I'm in which helped me successfully find and acquire a $2.2M coupons & discount internet business (earning $1.2M in EBITDA).

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At the time, I did not know that searchfunder.com existed as a resource so I'm thrilled to be apart of this community. Let me know in the comments what you think and offer feedback so that we can make it better for your searches.

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reply by a searcher 2yrs ago
from Stevens Institute of Technology in Orlando, FL, USA

of course. do you have something like this for your process? ^redacted‌

reply by a searcher 2yrs ago
from Texas A&M University in Denver, CO, USA

Super helpful resource to take in mass amounts of data and easily build LOIs. Thanks for sharing Rich!

Have you made any adjustments in the last 3 years? Similar thoughts to ^redacted‌ on this vs. a CRM of sorts.