Anonymous - In addition to the responses you receive here, you can view self-reported searchfund acquisitions by date under the Directory tab at the top of this page. Sort by "acquired" in descending order for best results. Here is the direct link: www.searchfunder.com/searchfund/allsearchfunds

Tagging a few Searchfunders who have commented on exiting in the past who might be able to contribute to this conversation: ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌,^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌, ^[redacted]‌ (To our commenters, THANK YOU for helping to make Searchfunder a collaborative community. We appreciated it! Keep an eye out for BVR DealStats which will be available on Searchfunder by January 1. With Best Wishes, ^[redacted]‌).

^[redacted]‌ has as excellent blog post on this topic. Here is the direct link: www.searchfunder.com/post/exit-or-recapitalization

^[redacted]‌'s 2019 of ^[redacted]‌ (www.searchfunder.com/post/operating-exiting-a-business) and 2018 Interview of ^[redacted]‌ (https://www.searchfunder.com/post/be-wary-of-customer-concentration) covers this topic.

Happy to chat if you want to send me a direct message

I don’t know that there is a typical exit for searcher that differs from any other business exiting. We haven’t use a bank to exit any of our deals but that is because we always sell to strategics and generally they knock on our door first and since we have a sense of the market value of the asset we feel confident in the strategics price.

Good thread[redacted]thank all