Search funds started over 30 years ago, and there is now valuable information available.
Books
Search Funds & Entrepreneurial Acquisitions: The Roadmap for Buying a Business and Leading it to the Next Level - Jan Simon
In this book, Jan Simon, Managing Partner of Vonzeo Capital and Academic Director of the International Search Fund Center at IESE Business School, presents a best-practices-based roadmap for searchers, acquisition entrepreneurs, investors and board members. Drawing on generous contributions from the search fund community as well as his own experience, he sheds light on how this community converted $1.4 billion of investments into $8.7 billion, with $1.8 billion going to the entrepreneurs…
Below are selected resources we think are useful.
Research Centres
CHICAGO BOOTH - Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL - International Search Fund Center
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL - Rock Center for Entrepreneurship
Recommended Reading
THE ECONOMIST
ENTREPRENEUR
Business-Buying Search Funds Gain Momentum
FORBES
Acquiring Companies Without Money: The Rise of Fundless Search Models
Stanford’s B-School Sensation: Plot A Takeover In Two Weeks
The Search Fund Model: How To Become A 28-Year Old CEO
FORTUNE
Offering an Exit Strategy for Aging European Business Owners
HANDELSBLATT GLOBAL
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship
Retiring Boomers Should Consider Selling Their Companies to Millennials
What Family Businesses Can Learn from the Military
Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?
Why More MBAs Should Buy Small Businesses
Why You Should Buy a Business (and How to Do It)
IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL
2018 International Search Fund Study: Selected Observations
Re-Thinking Search Fund Incentive Structures
Search Funds, a High Potential Asset Class
Search Funds-What has made them Work?
LAVCA
STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL
How CEOs-In-Waiting Buy The Companies They Want to Run
Best Practices for the Search Phase
What it Takes to be a Search Fund Entrepreneur
TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Appreciating the Big Role of Small Businesses