Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
4.8from 67 ratings
- 98
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 67
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition
A podcast series featuring all things related to search funds and entrepreneurship through acquisition. Hosted by Brian O'Connor, Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Managing Partner of NextGen Growth Partners.
- Publisher
- Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Aug 2016
- Latest episode
- 25 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 98 episodes have a transcript.
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Investment Banking to ETA
28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Decade in ETA: When Search “Goes Wrong”
31 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Decade of ETA Insider: Why Capital Structure Is Still Everything in the Lower Middle Market
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From Investment Banking to ETA
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, absolutely. I can write a playbook on what not to do. But jokes aside, though, so pre-acquisition, there's pre-acquisition mistakes and post-acquisition mistakes, right? Pre-acquisition mistakes, the biggest one is chasing EBITDA, right? So I sort of implore our surgers not to chase that polished company doing a million plus in EBITDA in an attractive sector and You know, and sort of immediately assume that it's a great ETA target. Sure, that's what it looks like. But, you know, based on our earlier discussion, there's a lot of competition there. And that may be a hard deal to get done. Right. […]
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- Sudeep Das
- Matt Taylor
- Steve Groya
- Alex Schneider
- Sunil Grover
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 48 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 19 ratings
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- 23
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 92
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