SMB Buying Resources

Big Deal Small Business: SMB Buying Resources

This post provides a quick recap of some helpful resources if you want to learn more about SMB buying.

This was basically my reading/watching/listening list as I dove into the space. Please share with anyone who may find this helpful.

• Read (long): Stanford Search Fund Primer 

• Read (long): HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business

• Read (long): Brent Beshore’s The Messy Marketplace

• Read (short): Stanford Search Fund Study 

• Read (short): Yale’s Prof. Wasserstein’s Search Fund Case Studies

• Read (short): Nick Haschka on being a bad buyer

• Watch: Brent Beshore, Trish Higgins, and Will Thorndike at Capital Camp 

• Watch: Irv Grousbeck (Stanford professor) discussion on search funds 

• Watch: Evolution of the Search Fund since Irv Grousbeck 

• Watch: Journey of a Self-Funded Searcher 

• Listen: Think Like an Owner podcast 

• Listen: Acquiring Minds podcast

• Subscribe: My SMB Operators Twitter List

• Subscribe: Chenmark’s Weekly Thoughts Newsletter

• Subscribe: Searchfunder

My New Searcher Reader Guide will get you going on my Substack as well so that you’re not digging through the archives.

See you next week!

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