Mission
The purpose of ETA@Kellogg is to educate, equip, and inspire Kellogg MBA students to pursue Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition upon graduation or within 5 years of graduating from KSM through community, alumni, and professional support.
The purpose of ETA@Kellogg is to educate, equip, and inspire Kellogg MBA students to pursue Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition upon graduation or within 5 years of graduating from KSM through community, alumni, and professional support.
Active in the vibrant ETA community, regularly attending events, and contributing thought leadership.
Highly connected in the ETA ecosystem, both as entrepreneurs and investors
Drawing high-impact investors and former operators to campus to share their wisdom and insights.
Oct 14 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Endurance Search Partners is a growth focused investment firm that partners with exceptional search fund entrepreneurs to help them realize their vision to become the next generation of great leaders and make their mark. With a history of 250+ search fund partnerships – including some 35+ with Kellogg searchers – they provide searchers with encouragement, coaching, pattern recognition, an abundance of resources and access to an expansive nationwide network. Endurance has made a wide range of investments in 120+ search fund companies and has been a part of some of the most successful search fund outcomes. Since 2010, Hunter Search Capital has partnered with over 100 entrepreneurs through traditional search funds, committed capital vehicles, and long term holds.
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Oct 16 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Come join the ETA club for a Lunch & Learn with NextGen Growth Partners.
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Oct 20 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Keep hearing about ETA? Curious about what it is? Have you seriously considered entrepreneurship but felt stuck because you don't have that VC-backable unicorn idea? Or don't have funding? Come learn about acquisition entrepreneurship - a unique path to pursuing entrepreneurship but with all of the same traits....ownership, leadership, and impact! Co-hosted with the ABC, BMA, AMA, KLATAM, and WBA!
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Oct 21 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
ETA Club welcomes Michael Aubrey, Partner at Shore Capital.
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Oct 23 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Miramar Equity Partners is a Dallas-based search fund investor co-founded by Kurt Leedy and Kyle Coots with ~30 active search funds and 70+ search-acquired companies in its portfolio. Miramar is an engaged investor and active throughout the search fund lifecycle: search, acquire, and operate. Miramar invests across industries and geographies (both the U.S. and internationally) and brings a track record of investment experience, an ability to commit large ($30M+) or small equity checks, a network of experts and advisors, and a collaborative approach to working with searcher executives (including sharing Miramar deal flow). Miramar typically accounts for 15-25% of a given search fund and, because it’s a family office, can have indefinite investment time horizons.
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Oct 27 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Come hear from Dan Burseth, who has been buying, running, and selling franchises and businesses in the industrial services space for the past 10 years.
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Oct 28 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Join Footbridge Managing Partner Greg Geronemus, Greg is a Goldman Sachs and HBS alum. He and his partner searched for, acquired, operated & sold smarTours, a value-oriented tour operator, generating an outsized return for investors.
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Oct 30 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
WSC & Company is a private investment firm focused on building exceptional businesses through the traditional search fund model and through middle-market buyouts.
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Nov 4 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Relay established its first official fund in 2013 in Boston. With a U.S. focus and an international reach, the firm now has $200M in AUM that it uses to exclusively invest into search funds and their target companies.
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Nov 6 | 12:15pm - 1:15pm
M²O was founded in 1992 and took a hands-on approach to its first investment, directly managing the National Lines Bureau for five years. During that period, the company’s operations were improved and streamlined, generating a 100% return on invested capital annually by the time of its sale in 1997. That same year, M²O invested in its first search fund. At the time, a search fund was a novel and ambitious concept hatched by a small group of business school professors, students, and private investors. Over time, search funds became the foundation of M²O’s investment activities. Since then, M²O has invested in over 200 search funds around the world and continues to evaluate dozens of new opportunities annually.
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