SMEVentures: Search with SMEVentures
The Position
Search on Salary. An Asia Pacific platform that raises the search capital, so you draw a salary while looking and then run the business.
Cycle: Rolling.
At a Glance
- Location
- Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region, from a Sydney contact number.
- Compensation
- Search capital covering expenses and a modest salary for up to two years, with no capital required from the searcher.
- What You Do
- Up to two years searching, then five to ten years running the acquired business as its CEO.
- Who Can Apply
- High-caliber operators looking to acquire and operate a business, in the firm's own words.
The Company
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Interview Prep
These programs do not publish their interview scripts, so this is the shape a search on salary program hires on, what it is really weighing, and how to arrive ready.
The Typical Arc
- A written application and resume screen, weighing operating exposure as much as deal exposure.
- A case or deal exercise: a target to assess, or a plan for one of the firm's portfolio companies.
- A panel with the partners who would back and govern you.
- Reference and background checks before an offer.
What It Is Assessing
- Whether you can operate, not only analyze: the firm is hiring a CEO, not an associate.
- Deal judgment: telling a good acquisition from a merely plausible one.
- Fit with the firm's stated playbook and the cadence its portfolio runs at.
How to Prepare
- Know the firm's thesis and portfolio cold before the first call. Investors
- Bring a real deal you would pursue, underwritten end to end. Underwrite a Deal
- Have an answer to why you would operate on salary rather than own outright. Path Economics
- Make the operator case on one page, not a resume. Buyer Profile Builder
More on the Board
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