Lindsay Ellis
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Jan 2025
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · MBA Students Pitch Themselves as the Next Great Investment · 8 Apr 2022
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So it would cover travel to meet with existing business owners.
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Due diligence, a legal review, and then after the company is identified, the MBA student or the searcher would then acquire it and lead it as CEO.
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It is still very much a niche concept.
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The numbers are certainly growing.
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I think there have been at least 70 identified in 2020 and more in 2021.
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As one investor told me, that's a lot more than it was previously, but it's still enough people who could reasonably attend a wedding.
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So it's not an astronomically popular area, but it is one that has been growing in popularity in business schools.
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It's a great question.
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So some of the companies that have recently been acquired are niche.
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They can operate in insurance sales, security, software as a service, or even spaces like pest abatement and construction.
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It's companies that are privately held and often the businesses that are most attractive are those that are in growing markets and have strong recurring revenues.
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Investors say that's because they know these CEOs are pretty inexperienced.
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And so if they make a mistake, they're not going to mess things up too badly.
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One is just that, you know, to begin with, the ecosystem is growing.
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Because there have been sort of a small but steady number of searchers over the years, there are more mentors, for example, and people who can drop by clubs or classes and tell business school students about
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about the model and share their own experiences.
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Another big reason is that investors have a lot of capital right now and they're looking for places to put it.
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This is sort of a space where students can raise money and hopefully be successful in their acquisitions.
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The other thing to note is that there have been more structures on campuses that can support searchers and business students.
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There are clubs, there are conferences.
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