Search funds have become a popular model for young entrepreneurs seeking to become equity-owning managers and run their own business. They have also become an interesting investment class for experienced private equity investors and other individual investors. It’s an appealing collaborative model: an ambitious and dynamic yet inexperienced entrepreneur partners with experienced hands-on investors to […]
Search Funds, the Asset Class Nobody Keeps Up With … so far
In April 1966 lifelong Warren Buffett friend Carol Loomis wrote an article in Fortune magazine titled: “The Jones Nobody Keeps Up With“. In the article she introduces Alfred Winslow Jones and Hedge Funds to Fortune readers. She explains that Jones’ 5 year historic IRR (internal rate return) of 33.56% is 7% higher than the best […]
A Mistake Engineers Make When They Innovate: The Prototype
Engineers tend to be entrepreneurial people
Innovation: Converting Your Company in a Startup Corporation
Established players and startups seem to be two completely different worlds. This belief has led to the Innovation Paradox: The better you are at incremental innovation, the worst you become at generating breakthrough ideas. Yet companies must beat this paradox in order to survive. How? By becoming a Startup Corporation. It is possible. Google has […]