Resources

Search Fund Resources

A curated collection of guides, articles, podcasts, and templates to support your entrepreneurial journey.

A. J. Wasserstein Cases

Yale School of Management·Guide

Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Resources

University of Chicago Polsky Center·Guide

Executive Coaching: Transforming Private Equity Leadership

Alpine Investors·Article

Exploring and Understanding the Various Legal Documents in a Search Fund

Holland & Knight·2024·Article

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business

Richard Ruback & Royce Yudkoff·Book

How CEOs-In-Waiting Buy the Companies They Want to Run

Stanford GSB·2018·Article

IESE – Search Fund Resources

IESE Business School·Guide

In The Trenches Podcast

Steve Divitkos·Podcast

Invest Like the Best Podcast

Patrick O'Shaughnessy·Podcast

On the Nature of Due Diligence in a Search Fund Acquisition

Yale School of Management·Article

Search Fund Primer

Stanford GSB CES·Guide

Search Fund Resources

Harvard Business School·2024·Guide

Stanford GSB – Search Fund Resources

Stanford Graduate School of Business·Guide

Structuring Search Fund Investments as Qualified Small Business Stock

Choate·Article

The Messy Marketplace: Essays on Small Business

Permanent Equity·Article

Think Like an Owner Podcast

Alex Bridgeman·Podcast

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Gino Wickman·Book

Who: The A Method for Hiring

Geoff Smart & Randy Street·Book