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CES Videos

2005 Search Fund Panel, 1:27 hours

November 3, 2005
Professor Irv Grousbeck, GSB
Christian Lawrence, San Francisco Legal
Ken Alston, Southern California Risk Management
Joseph Niehaus, Housatonic Partners
David Kennedy, ServiceSource

Successful search funders, an investor and GSB professor Irv Grousbeck, discuss their experiences of buying businesses via the Search Fund method.  Topics include raising the fund, conducting the search, due diligence, seller negotiations, operating issues, investor perspectives and CEO-Board relationships.

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