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Many searchers understandably tend to have very similar questions and areas of uncertainty. Indeed, in most instances, I had these very same questions and areas of uncertainty myself prior to raising my own search fund in 2012. As a result of the frequency with which I'm asked these questions, I've presented each of them in today's episode, and have also included my opinion on what the answers may be. Some of the questions include:

Constructing a cap table
Differences between the Canadian and US search ecosystems
Is the search fund market too crowded/saturated
The trade-off between price and business quality
What the best searchers do in their first 3-6 months
Proprietary vs. brokered deal flow generation
When to visit a prospective seller
Success rates of industry agnostic searches
Having an industry & geographic focus
Homogeneity among search investors re: industry preferences
How to spend your first week as a new CEO
Should I create a 100-day plan?
How to communicate the ownership change to customers

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