See a scorching evaluation of search funds.
July 19, 2022
by a professional from University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business in North Palm Beach, FL, USA
Don’t blame the messenger. That’s me. “Search Funds - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” https://www.corumgroup.com/insights/search-funds-good-bad-and-ugly
Up to now, I’ve only shared a link to a broker website that boldly warns: NO SEARCHFUNDS.
BTW, some of what the marketplace is saying will be covered during my July 28 Zoom:
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from Boston University in Cupertino, CA, USA
As with any growing community, there will be times of high and low quality. Not all ideas/entrepreneurs during the dot com boom were fundable. Search will go through the same - and it will be for the better.
In fairness the author saw the good - which is all what we need to focus on.
IMHO, searchers should refrain from tire-kicking. That doesn't help anyone win - that's a bigger "ugly" than double diligence.
from University of Southern California in North Palm Beach, FL, USA
It’s important, for what we’re up against, to anticipate and see the elephant in the room, before we spend time and money, isn’t it?
What the “scorching” article warns is one of the elephants.
Every day I think about my elephant, which stamped me into #*>?%.
It caused me to pay better attention to what some of us don’t see, which can adversely affect us.
That’s when I went from being a naïve searcher and business buyer to finally making worthwhile deals.
Yes, my first acquisition was a disaster. It’s a good story about my incompetent search, my bad investment, and getting back at the people who cheated me. And never to be repeated.