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Save time, avoid costly mistakes, generate more qualified opportunities, and focus on what matters most: finding and closing the right deal.
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Help with your seller outreach
Built on 500+ business evaluations and extensive work with sellers and brokers.
All services →Training for every stage of your search
Self-paced video lessons built from 30K+ prospects contacted and 500+ seller calls.
Templates and tools for your search
Instant download. Use them in your next outreach campaign or seller call.
How Business Buyer Lab helps
Built on 500+ business evaluations and extensive work with sellers and brokers, Business Buyer Lab helps you save time, avoid costly mistakes, generate more qualified opportunities, and focus on what matters most: finding and closing the right deal.
Coaching programs
Our goal is simple: help you spend less time on trial and error, connect with more of the right people, and make better acquisition decisions.
All coaching packages are prepaid. Done-for-you projects and managed outreach are quoted separately.
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What readers say
Books for searchers becoming business owners
Reviews of the books that help you learn the acquisition process and make the transition from searcher to owner.
Join other searchers
A free community for people buying a small business. Share what's working, ask questions, and stay accountable through your search.

Searcher, Kellogg MBA, Search Fund Accelerator alum
Dan is passionate about the search process and dedicated to helping others master every stage of their own search journey. Her expertise is built on years of hands-on experience as a searcher: after earning her MBA from Kellogg, Dan joined the Search Fund Accelerator, where she launched and led her own search fund. During this time, she reached out to over 30K prospects and converted to 500+ calls.
Our goal is simple: help you spend less time on trial and error, connect with more of the right people, and make better acquisition decisions.