5 Takeaways from Harvard's ETA Conference

arvard's acquisition entrepreneurship conference took place last week. Organizer Michael Ledecky shares 5 takeaways, including:

• Buy a good business in a great industry
• 4+1 Model for searching
• 3 industries for acquisition entrepreneurs to consider
• Mental health in search
• Women in search
• Thai Lee, acquisition entrepreneur who became a billionaire
• Diversifying paths of search
• Predictions for search in 2022 & 2023

Tons of names & resources cited in this episode. Here they all are:

• Michael Ledecky
• 2021 ETA Conference
• Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Club at HBS
• The book that inspired Michael, HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company
• The authors and HBS professors: Royce G. Yudkoff & Richard S. Ruback
• Pacific Lake, and partners Coley Andrews & Jim Southern
• The 4 + 1 Industry Search Framework by Pacific Lake
• Steve Divitkos' episode on Acquiring Minds, From Search Misery to Successful CEO
• Paul Thompson's Search Fund Manifesto
• Andrew Mondi
• Thai Lee
• Jim Sharpe's blog
• Trish Higgins of Chenmark
• Andrew Saltoun
• Search Fund Accelerator (SFA)
• Broadtree Partners
• Irv Grousbeck, developer of the traditional search model