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5 Takeaways from Harvard's ETA Conference
Published 4 years, 9 months ago
Description
Harvard's acquisition entrepreneurship conference took place last week. Organizer Michael Ledecky shares 5 takeaways.
Themes from Michael's interview:
- Buy a good business in a great industry
- 4+1 Model for searching
- 3 industries for acquisition entrepreneurs to consider
- Mental health in search
- Women in search
- Thai Lee, acquisition entrepreneur who became a billionaire
- Diversifying paths of search
- Predictions for search in 2022 & 2023
Tons of names & resources cited in this episode. Here they all are:
- Michael Ledecky
- 2021 ETA Conference
- Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club at HBS
- The book that inspired Michael, HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company
- The authors and HBS professors: Royce G. Yudkoff & Richard S. Ruback
- Pacific Lake, and partners Coley Andrews & Jim Southern
- The 4 + 1 Industry Search Framework by Pacific Lake
- Steve Divitkos' episode on Acquiring Minds, From Search Misery to Successful CEO
- Paul Thompson's Search Fund Manifesto
- Andrew Mondi
- Thai Lee
- Jim Sharpe's blog
- Trish Higgins of Chenmark
- Andrew Saltoun
- Search Fund Accelerator (SFA)
- Broadtree Partners
- Irv Grousbeck, developer of the traditional search model