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Every searcher needs a flexible, rigorous model to evaluate opportunities with speed and precision. This package helps you construct a robust financial model tailored to your target criteria. With expert guidance, you’ll understand key assumptions, customize frameworks, and practice applying the model to real opportunities so you can confidently assess acquisition targets. Key components of this package can include, but aren’t limited to: • Build a dynamic, Excel/Google Sheets-based search model. • Customize assumptions for your industries and acquisition criteria. • Learn how to quickly evaluate and compare target companies. • Stress-test financial scenarios to build confidence in decision-making.
Acquisition Search Model (customizable spreadsheet)
Step-by-Step Instruction Guide for Adaptation
Example Evaluations Using Your Criteria
Coaching delivered via live sessions.
Services included:
Investment Analysis
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$2654h of coaching
Build a compelling roadmap that attracts investors and guides your search
$356.255h of coaching
Equip yourself with the tools to raise capital effectively
$356.255h of coaching

Joined September 2024
5.0
Self-funded Searcher turned SMB Owner
I have experience structuring a self-funded search, evaluating deals, conducting due diligence, working with sellers, and modeling post-transaction financials. I can help those who are considering this path, are mid-search, or are in the final innings of a deal. In 2022, as an MBA student at Yale School of Management, I took three courses on ETA and wrote two papers with A.J. Wasserstein, Pioneer in the world of Search and ETA. I fell in love with the model and determined that I needed to find a way to do this for my career. Following my MBA, I interned at a Traditional Search fund investor for the summer and learned a great deal about what investors look for in Searchers. Following a two-year stint in Management Consulting, I decided to pursue a self-funded search in my home state of Utah. After 6 months of full-time search, I found a small company at which I was hired with the intention to acquire the company (Acqui-hire) and which I will close by late Summer 2025.
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