Search Funds - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Corum Group
Though it’s only recently really become established on the tech side of things, the search fund concept is nearly forty years old, originating at Stanford Business School. In the model, investors, financially support an entrepreneur’s efforts to find, acquire and grow a privately held company, often serving as mentors in the process. The model offers relatively inexperienced entrepreneurs who have limited capital resources a quick path to owning and managing a company—finding an opportunity that already has product market fit, but needs additional effort to take it to the next level.
Search Funds - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly July 13, 2021 Timothy Goddard Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategies View profile Share Though it’s only recently really become established on the tech side of things, the search fund concept is nearly forty years old, originating at Stanford Business School. In the model, investors, financially support an entrepreneur’s efforts to find, acquire and grow a privately held company, often serving as mentors in the process. The model offers relatively inexperienced entrepreneurs who have limited capital resources a quick path to owning and man
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