It got me curious: Why are women so woefully underrepresented among search fund entrepreneurs?
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So maybe the challenge is that the search fund path to entrepreneurship is still largely a secret.
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The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has excellent resources for those considering a search fund, with annual reports on search fund performance and detailed documents to help you get started.
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Maybe you should consider a search fund.
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In fact, when pushed to identify women who have attempted the search fund model, leaders in the niche investment community are hard-pressed to name anyone other than Karen Moriarty, CEO of Carillon Assisted Living, the company she decided to start herself rather than acquire another through her search fund.
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Search your fund companies' websites for your funds' holdings, which should be reported at least quarterly.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote a research paper at Stanford in 1998 adamantly opposing the use of advertisements to fund search engines.
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Then search out a hedge fund that makes biotech investments.
The searcher raises initial capital from investors to fund his search (average length: 18 months) and then returns to those investors seeking additional capital for an acquisition once he finds a suitable target.
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The program will streamline the organization, fund key investments and search for other areas for cost savings.
And, of course, all of this is in addition to the annual retainer the consultant receives from the fund and any manager search or project fees.
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For fund managers and companies in search of money, CIC's chief investment officer, Gao Xiqing , has become highly sought-after.
The mother of a Suffolk man, who went missing in Thailand, has set up a fund to help with the search.
Helen Armstrong-Bland, Tom's mother, has set up a fund to help with the search, hoping any money raised could be used for flights for the family to Thailand.
So a search is under way to increase the size of the fund without increasing the liabilities of German taxpayers.
The search giant had previously donated money towards the estate's restoration fund.
Google helped fund Mozilla and signed a deal to have the Google search engine built into Firefox, a deal that is still in place today, the Google spokeswoman said.
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Her thinking is that as the world's wealthy population ages, and U.S. baby boomers scramble to fund kids' educations and their own retirement, money will slosh around in search of decent returns--but stocks will fail them.
While the search begins to replace him, the first deputy managing director, John Lipsky, will lead the fund, the IMF said in a statement.
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