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[Contact Us](https://www.searchfundoz.com.au/contact-us/?hsLang=en) ## Notebooks - [Stanford Primer 2026](https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/9ee70411-2cfa-4f76-970b-14a71d2225e5?authuser=1) - Video explainer, podcast, infographics, reports, quizzes and flashcards.  The quickest way to learn the basics (and details) of Search Funds ## Research Centres - [Chicago Booth](https://polsky.uchicago.edu/) - Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation - [Harvard Business School](https://entrepreneurship.hbs.edu/Pages/default.aspx) - Rock Center for Entrepreneurship - [IESE Business School](https://www.iese.edu/faculty-research/research-centers/eic-entrepreneurship-innovation-center/) - International Search Fund Center - [Stanford Graduate School of Business](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/about/centers-institutes/ces/research/search-funds) - Center for Entrepreneurial Studies ## Podcasts  - [In the Trenches](https://open.spotify.com/show/0W6G4DPc29ilDuLQiyysJ4) by Steve Divitkos  - [Acquiring Minds](https://open.spotify.com/show/2vZrl0u2wMHPEz1EZFw2dC) by Will Smith - [Search Funded: The ETA Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/6ospuSKzJJEBaJpzD2iU1V) by Nick Lall - [The Next Step](https://open.spotify.com/show/2u50Ys02XRELcH1Y8NHdAR) by Pete Seligman   ## Reading - Books - [Search Funds & Entrepreneurial Acquisitions](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0228861764) by Jan Simon (The bible) - [Buy Then Build](https://www.amazon.com.au/Buy-Then-Build-Acquisition-Entrepreneurs/dp/154453566X) by Walker Deibel - [HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business](https://www.amazon.com.au/HBR-Guide-Buying-Small-Business-ebook/dp/B01KP33K4Y) by Richard Ruback & Royce Yudkoff ## Reading - Online ## Forbes  - [Acquiring Companies Without Money](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brentbeshore/2014/12/04/the-rise-of-fundless-search-models/#3b794d005068): The Rise of Fundless search Models - [Stanford’s B-School Sensation:](https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2013/10/09/stanfords-b-school-sensation-plot-a-takeover-in-two-weeks-2/#6699cb6b772b) Plot A Takeover In Two Weeks - [The Search Fund Model:](https://www.forbes.com/sites/vanessaloder/2014/08/07/the-search-fund-model-how-to-become-a-twenty-six-year-old-ceo-if-youre-willing-to-kiss-frogs/#4d9a50631190) How To Become A 28-Year Old CEO ## Harvard Business School - [Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship](https://hbr.org/2017/01/buying-your-way-into-entrepreneurship) - [Retiring Boomers](https://hbr.org/2014/12/retiring-boomers-should-consider-selling-their-companies-to-millennials) Should Consider Selling Their Companies to Millennials - [What Family Businesses](https://hbr.org/2020/05/what-family-businesses-can-learn-from-the-military?fbclid=IwAR3oND0thzO82GWe_EpO91lpY6b6Te4Hyo3AOzRwceDOwTcgkTJc59q6Qd0) Can Learn from the Military - [Which MBAs Make More:](https://hbr.org/2016/06/which-mbas-make-more-consultants-or-small-business-owners) Consultants or Small-Business Owners? - [Why More MBAs](https://hbr.org/2016/03/why-more-mbas-should-buy-small-businesses) Should Buy Small Businesses - [Why You Should Buy a Business](https://hbr.org/podcast/2017/02/why-you-should-buy-a-business-and-how-to-do-it) (and How to Do It) ## IESE Business School - [Re-Thinking Search Fund](https://b8309f28-3e06-46cf-b4e6-1ec112c3345e.filesusr.com/ugd/ec0d6e_94f4a87ec33246948698824d5b0f064c.pdf) Incentive Structures - [Search Funds-](https://www.iese.edu/media/research/pdfs/ST-0357-E.pdf)What has made them Work? - [2024 International Search Fund](https://www.iese.edu/media/research/pdfs/ST-0658-E) study  ## Stanford Business School - [How CEOs-In-Waiting](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how-ceos-waiting-buy-companies-they-want-run)Buy The Companies They Want to Run - [2024 Search Fund Study](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/2024-search-fund-study): Selected Observations - [Best Practices for the Search Phase](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/about/centers-institutes/ces/research/search-funds) - [Search Fund Primer 2026](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/about/centers-institutes/ces/research/search-funds/primer) - [What it Takes to be a Search Fund Entrepreneur](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/what-it-takes-be-search-fund-entrepreneur) - [Videos on Search Funds](https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordgsb/search) ## Other Questions Aspiring Search Fund Entrepreneurs and Potential Investors Might Ask Each Other     Contact Us ## How Can we Help? 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