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Resources

Launching Your Search

Searching Best Practices

Stanford GSB summary of searching best practices

Considerations on when to search

Considerations on where to search from

Searching during a downturn - lessons from a past searcher

Administrative / Organization

Pre-launch planning template - Example

Endurance guide to accounting services for search funds

Average search fund budget

Costs of searching

Building your search website

Quarterly investor update - Example

Interns

Endurance guide to internships

Intern nondisclosure agreement (NDA) - Example

Article on legal requirements for unpaid interns

Sourcing

Sourcing strategy – Example

Defining industry boundaries for a search fund

Finders fee agreement - Example

Proprietary prospecting

Brokers and intermediaries

Market & Trend Data Sources

Concluding without Acquiring

Searchfunder.com postings on why search funds “fail”

Reflections from a searcher on why he didn’t acquire