Search & filter 450 acquisition case studies

The number one question I get from Acquiring Minds listeners isn't about deal structuring or SBA lending or how to run a search. It's some version of: Will, have you interviewed someone who bought a business like the one I'm looking at? I've gotten this question for years, in various shapes and sizes. And the answer is almost always yes — but finding that episode among the catalog of 450+ wasn't easy. Well, we finally built something to fix that. We’re calling it The ETA Database and it’s free to access and available today. The team (with a little help from Claude) has spent months indexing episodes so they're filterable and easy to navigate. A few ways you might use The ETA Database: * Industry search: Pull up every episode featuring acquisitions in that space — how deals were structured, financed, and what the pitfalls looked like. * Connect with searchers in your geography: Filter by location to see business acquisition stories in your region. * Find buyers with similar backgrounds: See how other people with your professional experience made the transition into acquisition entrepreneurship. * Filter by acquisition model: Find episodes featuring similar deal structures so you can benchmark your thinking against someone who's already done it. Go explore here: ETADatabase.com Check it out, use the different filters, and let me know what you think. This is a living resource — we'll keep updating it as we air new episodes, and I'm curious to hear how you're using it and what would make it more useful. Thank you!