👨🏻‍🏫Primers

• Exploring ETA - A Duke I&E primer and history of ETA
• Stanford search fund primer
• Introduction to Search resources (Endurance Search Partners)
• How to prepare for a search fund during your MBA (Yale)
• How to Raise a Search Fund (WSC & Co.)
• On the nature of women considering a search fund launch (Yale)
• Best practices for the search phase (Stanford)
• Search Funds—What has made them work: interviews with 17 searchers in 2014 (IESE)
• 2020 Search Fund Study: Selected Observations (Stanford)
• The Evolution of a Search Fund CEO and Company: the Arc of a 10x Outcome (Yale)

📚Books

• HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company
• Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
• How to Buy a Business without Being Had: Successfully Negotiating the Purchase of a Small Business
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

📺 Videos

• Chicago Booth Intro To ETA
• Intro to ETA - different flavors of ETA
• Mechanics of the search process
• Valuation
• Perspective from an entrepreneur actively searching for a business to acquire
• Perspective from a Search Fund investor
• Perspective from an entrepreneur actively operating an acquired business
• Perspective from legal counsel

🎙️Podcasts

• Acquiring Minds Podcast
• Think Like an Owner Podcast
• The ETA Insider Podcast

✍🏿Blogs

• Jim Steinsharpe
• In the Trenches

🎙️Duke Alumni Featured on Acquiring Minds

• Rob Belk - Acquiring a $7m Niche Marketing Agency with 50 Employees
• Don Grigg - Reflects on the different outcomes for 2 businesses he bought in his 30s, one of which became his life's work
• Taylor Mattingly - Found high-quality revenue in an unusual and sizable B2C business
• Linh Tran - From the acquisition of a tiny refrigeration business, Linh Tran has built an enterprise that earns millions annually
• Katherine Butler-Dines - Why Choose Ownership Over Being a CEO