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Search Funds - What Has Made Them Work?

Rob Johnson. (2014)

IESE technical note (number ST-357-E taken from the file name; not seen printed in the extracted text), 16 pp

Copyright 2014. "This study is based entirely on interviews conducted in the summer of 2014 with 17 people who were involved in early search funds in the United States and the first one in the United Kingdom"; the text is "predominantly the words of those people". Organised around searcher ("the Jockey"), investor ("the Trainer"), business ("the Horse"), search process, fund structure, acquisition financing and board. Qualitative; interviewees are insiders of the funded model.

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Rob Johnson. (2014). Search Funds - What Has Made Them Work? IESE technical note (number ST-357-E taken from the file name; not seen printed in the extracted text), 16 pp.

https://media.iese.edu/research/pdfs/ST-0357-E.pdf

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