Information is everywhere, but true entrepreneurial infrastructure is rare. This update explores how we are building the real-time guidance and compounding networks entrepreneurs need to move farther, faster, and with fewer preventable mistakes.
TAKING THE DROP
Is Training Worth It When the Odds of Buying a Business Are Falling?
Information is everywhere, but true entrepreneurial infrastructure is rare. This update explores how we are building the real-time guidance and compounding networks entrepreneurs need to move farther, faster, and with fewer preventable mistakes.
Fetch Strategies and Caprae Capital Partner to Bring Live Deal Sourcing Into the ETA Hub
Information is everywhere, but true entrepreneurial infrastructure is rare. This update explores how we are building the real-time guidance and compounding networks entrepreneurs need to move farther, faster, and with fewer preventable mistakes.
AI, Ownership, and Opportunity: What’s Ahead This Month
The available research cannot answer that question directly. But it offers two useful lenses: what we know about returns and value creation in the search-fund space, and what early research tells us about AI’s effect on productivity, entrepreneurship, and firm performance.
The $14,000 Senior-Living Question
Information is everywhere, but true entrepreneurial infrastructure is rare. This update explores how we are building the real-time guidance and compounding networks entrepreneurs need to move farther, faster, and with fewer preventable mistakes.
Will AI Improve Returns on Search Fund Acquisitions?
The available research cannot answer that question directly. But it offers two useful lenses: what we know about returns and value creation in the search-fund space, and what early research tells us about AI’s effect on productivity, entrepreneurship, and firm performance.
UPenn Venture Lab Joins VAULT
Turning philosophy into practice through three collaboration lanes: Access, Capital, and Experience. Learn how we are building structured partnerships to create investor-ready searchers and turn entrepreneurial stories into usable equipment for the journey ahead.
ACE: our 3 collaboration lanes
Turning philosophy into practice through three collaboration lanes: Access, Capital, and Experience. Learn how we are building structured partnerships to create investor-ready searchers and turn entrepreneurial stories into usable equipment for the journey ahead.
Growing Together
Information is everywhere, but true entrepreneurial infrastructure is rare. This update explores how we are building the real-time guidance and compounding networks entrepreneurs need to move farther, faster, and with fewer preventable mistakes.
No Scripts. Strategy First.
Why I don’t hand you a script. And, why it changes your search and your ability to be a CEO.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Karen’s monthly newsletter sharing trends, news and upcoming events. Part 1 of the January edition focuses on the progress and accomplishments of 2025.
Our latest innovation for the business buying process
The new EtA PitchRef evaluation system provides detailed feedback so that you can present your best, authentic self to investors, lenders, and business owners.
ABEP and Fetch Strategies Partner to Preserve Minnesota Business Legacies and Expand Black Economic Power
ABEP and Fetch will co-develop a scholarship initiative to expand access to a rigorous, cohort-based pathway to business ownership for Minnesota-based entrepreneurs (known as “searchers”).
Build the Team, Hit the IRR, Look Past the Culture War
The Stanford conference highlighted the practices, by any other name, that build teams and bottom line returns.
Real advice that untangles
Explore real guidance in entrepreneurship with free sessions and consultations. Learn more at Fetch Strategies and be prepared for success.
Introducing the Soft Launch of 24/7 Streaming within VAULT.
Introducing the Soft Launch of 24/7 Streaming within VAULT, the innovative digital video channel for SMB Founders, CEOs and startp and acquisition entrepreneurs..
August, The Sunday of Summer
Karen’s monthly newsletter sharing trends, news and upcoming events. We’re opening our new CEO Roundtable to a wider community of founders and CEOs, making this supportive, high-impact network more accessible to leaders at every stage of operating a business.
Time to Close?
When it comes to buying a small business, everyone wants a quick close—yet the reality is often far more unpredictable. Whether you’re hoping for a lightning-fast deal or bracing for a long haul, the numbers may surprise you. Read or listen to the full article to see what the data really says about closing timelines.
Buds to Blossoms (June Newsletter)
Karen’s monthly newsletter sharing trends, news and upcoming events.
What Finish Line?
Karen discusses the importance of beginning with the end in mind and the risks of not thinking beyond the close of a deal.
Don’t Shop Like a Teen
You might assume that experienced professionals wouldn’t approach buying a business the same way tweens shop for trendy items. But, whether they realize it or not, that’s often exactly what they’re doing. Read or listen to the full article.
Sowing Seeds of Success: Graduation, Mentors & New Paths (May Newsletter)
Karen’s monthly newsletter sharing news, views and upcoming events.
The EtA Launch Hub is Abuzz this Spring (April Newsletter)
The participants of the EtA Launch Hub are alive and abuzz. They are attending their final sessions and preparing for graduation day before investors, lenders and other community members.
Last Chance to Join the 2025 EtA Launch Hub Cohort!
Our pre-accelerator is more than just individual achievements; it’s about building a community where collective efforts propel everyone forward.
























