Recently came across a few posts about highly recommended books by searchers, EtA enthusiasts and SMB operators for buying/operating businesses, and decided to compile them here for my own reference: https://kumo.substack.com/p/the-best-reading-list-for-books-on-4bd?s=w
Search and Acquisition Basics
• Stanford Search Fund Primer
• Stanford University CES Search Fund Data 2020
• HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
• The Evolution of Entrepreneurship through Acquisition from Chicago Booth
• Buy Then Build
• Buyout
• Search Funds & Entrepreneurial Acquisitions
• Buying A Business That Makes You Rich
• How to Prepare Yourself and Find the Right Business to Buy
• IESE International Search Funds: Selected Observations
Deals, Negotiating & Due Diligence
• Never Split the Difference
• Negotiation Genius
• How to Buy a Business without Being Had
• Here's The Deal
• A Practical Guide to Buying a Business
Operations & Management
• Built to Sell
• Measure What Matters
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• The Effective Executive
• The Outsiders
• Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink
• The E-Myth Revisited
• Entrepreneurial Finance, Third Edition
From the Seller’s Perspective
• The Messy Marketplace: Selling Your Business in a World of Imperfect Buyers
• Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top
Search Fund Challenges
• Search Funds: Death and the Afterlife
• On the Nature of a Search Fund Not Working Out as Planned
Hope this might help anyone starting our on their searchfund journey! I added notable reviews and download links to each book where possible here: https://kumo.substack.com/p/the-best-reading-list-for-books-on-4bd?s=w Please let me know if there are books you think should be added to this list.
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