ETA from an Investor's Perspective: Video Interview

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From the archives: WSC's Managing Partner and Co-Founder Badge Stone discusses his experiences as a search fund investor as part of a program presented by Duke's Fuqua School of Business back in 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVtU…

Growth Handbook (Pricing)

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[Note: This post is a chapter of our Growth Handbook, a guide on organic growth for search funds and mid-market operating executives.] Pricing Optimization Warren Buffett has said the single most important decision in evaluating a business…

Second Annual WSC Searcher Activity Survey

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This past month we conducted and reviewed our second annual searcher activity survey – an aggregate report of search strategies, outreach volumes, and searcher outcomes from over 70 searchers in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Spain.…

Growth Handbook (Part 1)

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1. Introduction & Objectives Search fund entrepreneurs and investors develop thoughtful and well-researched growth assumptions when underwriting deals. We construct detailed models and populate rows of Excel, backed by insights from expert…

Expert Learnings | Data-Driven Deal Generation

This past fall WSC & Company hosted our 5th Annual Search Fund Conference where we connected with over 120 of our searchers, operators, LPs, and other members of the Search Fund Community to discuss best practices. One of our service provider…

Podcast Appearance: Badge Stone's Journey

WSC Co-Founder and Partner Badge Stone was recently interviewed on Alex Bridgeman's podcast Think Like an Owner. In the discussion, Badge describes his journey through search as an entrepreneur, operator and investor. Take a listen!

The Psychology of Search

“Search is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.” -Yogi Berra (with some editorial liberty) The great Yogi Berra may have initially been speaking of baseball when he uttered the quote above, but the principle applies equally…

How to Raise a Search Fund

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The team at WSC recently gave a presentation to a group of business school students contemplating raising search funds. We thought we'd "open source" the best practices we shared, based on our experiences backing 100+ search funds and meeting…