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Business: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA)

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    • Industry Research
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  • Business Home
  • Full Entrepreneurship Guide This link opens in a new window

Campus Resources

  • Center for Entrepreneurship
  • Center for Private Equity & Venture Capital
  • Center for Business, Government and Society
  • Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network
  • Dartmouth Regional Technology Center
  • Dartmouth Technology Transfer
  • Dartmouth's Engineering Entrepreneurship Program (DEEP)

Industry Research

  • IBISWorld: Industry This link opens in a new window
    A collection of market research reports for over 700 U.S. industries and almost 60 global industries.

    Use the Industry Wizard (Products > Tools > Industry Wizard) to create a list of industries based on variables like industry growth rate, market share concentration, or revenue volatility.

    Browse US industries by NAICS industry classifications
  • BizMiner This link opens in a new window
    Use the Industry Market Profile for granular and niche industry statistical reports and market analysis at the national and local levels down to the zip code.
  • EMIS Intelligence (fka EMIS Emerging Markets) This link opens in a new window
    Market research reports from a range of publishers on global/country/regional industries including, communication, consumer services/discretionary/staples, energy, financials, health care, industrials, information technology, materials, and utilities.
  • Frost & Sullivan This link opens in a new window
    Especially good for tech-related industries. Various types of market research reports include growth opportunities, trends analysis, and forecasting models.
  • PitchBook This link opens in a new window
    Use PitchBook's industry and vertical classifications to create a list of companies. The overview tab will aggregate data about your selections.
  • MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
    Country-specific industry reports include market overviews, data, segmentation, outlook and five forces analysis. Company reports include financials, top competitors, deals and SWOT analyses.
  • Trade Show Calendar - Trade Show Network
    Trade show websites can be great sources for lists of attendees and/or exhibitors for a specific industry
  • Trade Associations
    Most industries have a trade association, search for them on the web (add your industry name to a search like this). Trade association websites may have industry information/data and lists of members, and organizations are typically happy to engage with students.

List Building

  • D&B Hoovers This link opens in a new window
    162 million+ public, private, and nonprofit global companies. Screen for companies based on criteria like industry, geography, number of employees, year founded, and revenue.
    Experiment with different industry classifications in the dropdown. US 8-Digit SIC will be the most specific
  • PrivCo This link opens in a new window
    Business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. PrivCo also covers venture capital funding deals, private equity deals, and merger acquisition data.
  • Orbis This link opens in a new window
    306+ million public and private companies worldwide: financials in a standardized format, financial strength indicators, ratings, directors and contacts, filings, stock data, PE data, detailed corporate ownership structures, industry research, news, M&A deals and rumors, and global patent agreements.

More company databases

Local News

  • Factiva This link opens in a new window
    Indexes and provides full text to 33,000 news and business information sources from 200 countries in 28 languages, includes regional and industry publications, newspapers, newswires, Web and blog content.
  • EBSCO Regional Business News
    Full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces.

Due Diligence / Valuation

  • BizMiner This link opens in a new window
    Use the Industry Financial Profile to benchmark company financials to industry averages, find ratios, and valuation multiples.
  • Cover ArtSmall Business Valuation Methods: How to evaluate small, privately-owned businesses by Yannick Coulon
    Publication Date: 2022
  • Cover ArtThe Art of Business Valuation by Gregory R. Caruso
    Publication Date: 2020

Books & Publications

  • Cover ArtHBR Guide to Buying a Small Business (HBR Guide Series) by Richard S. Ruback; Royce Yudkoff
    Call Number: ebook
    ISBN: 1633692515
    Publication Date: 2017-01-17
  • Cover ArtThe Manager's Handbook by David Dodson
    ISBN: 9781394174072
    Publication Date: 2023
  • Cover ArtThe Outsiders by William N. Thorndike
    ISBN: 1422187586
    Publication Date: 2012-10-02
  • 2024 Search Fund Study (Stanford)
    The 2024 Search Fund Study reports on the financial returns and key qualities of search funds formed in the United States and Canada since 1984. This report updates the previous 2022 study with data through December 31, 2023.
  • Search Fund Primer (Stanford)
    See "Part IV: Setting Criteria for Evaluating Industries", "Part V: The Search - Sourcing Acquisition Opportunities", and "Part IV: Evaluating Target Businesses" for guidance on the research process
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