Hot take: search is worse now than it was earlier this year

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by an intermediary from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School
in Nashville, TN, USA

3yrs ago

Hot take: search is worse now than it was earlier this year

Or is it a data backed take?

Disagree? Submit what you're seeing in the second State of Search Survey!

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reply by an intermediary 3yrs ago
from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Nashville, TN, USA

Campbell, Please participate in the survey and you will get full access to the report. We ask about EBITDA size and multiples which means we can impute price and if prices are going up or down over time. redacted

reply by an intermediary 3yrs ago
from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Nashville, TN, USA

Thanks Tim, would love it if you could participate in the survey and share it with other searchers, investors and CEOs. The more responses the better the data. Plus only participants receive the full report of data. redacted