Apprenticeship Model in Search

by a searcher from Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

2 years ago

Hello,

I was curious if anyone was aware of a situation where someone pursed search via an apprenticeship model. An Apprenticeship model being an experienced searcher taking a budding searcher on in their deal process or in one of their portfolio companies in a role to grow and gain more experience for that new searcher to launch their own search. If anyone knows of anyone that has chartered a similar path I would love to connect to better understand how they structured that relationship and what were the pain points and frictions of that model.

Thanks,

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searcher

Not quite apprenticeships but check out the EIR/Fellow/Bootcamp/Scout programs at places like 365 Holdings, Pursuant Capital, NextGen Growth Partners, Majority Search, Several Ventures, Compounding Labs, Brydon Group, Enduring Ventures, and Activus Capital.

1 year ago | like reply | 1 like

searcher from Carnegie Mellon University

Hi John! Supporting my CMU fellow here! There are some paid mentoring / advising services out there but in a perfect world, this apprenticeship model would be awesome. But I don't see how this is very different from working for someone at a PE shop / Searchfund first before launching one's own SF?

1 year ago | like reply | 0 likes

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