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K17Primer

A Primer on Search Funds: A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurs Embarking on a Search Fund (edition dated 7/20/2015). 89 pp

Stanford GSB Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. (2015)

Third-party copy:

Copyright 2015 Stanford; acknowledgements credit William Norvell, Coley Andrews and David Dodson for the update and Elad Benjamin for the original version. Cites the 2013 study: "the 34.9 percent IRR and 10.0x multiple of investment for search funds as an asset class (as of 2013)". Says CES "conducted its first Search Fund Study at the end of 2001, it identified 46 first-time search funds", which conflicts with the 1996 start date given in every study. Do not cite a case number for this edition; none was read.

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Stanford GSB Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. (2015). A Primer on Search Funds: A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurs Embarking on a Search Fund (edition dated 7/20/2015). 89 pp. Third-party copy:

https://cerralvo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Primer-on-Search-Funds.pdf

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