# Columbia Business School: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

Club-led, with investor introductions.

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## At a Glance

- Club: Columbia Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, whose stated aim is producing search fund entrepreneurs rather than introducing the idea.
- Money: Lang Summer Fellowship: a salary supplement for rising second-years working full-time at an early-stage company, a small VC, or a search fund, 35 hours a week for 8 to 12 weeks, one stipend per host. The host pays at least $400 a week, the center tops the total up to a ceiling of $1,000 a week, and its own share is capped at $4,000 for the summer.
- Conference: No conference that Columbia Business School publishes.
- Its own page: https://cbseta.com/

## The Classes

- Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (B8523) taught by William Bressman and Gerald King take one autumn half-term section, Tom Jackson and Clayton Sachs the other

## What It Publishes for Anyone

- A club-run calendar of panels and workshops with investors and operators.

## What Else It Runs

- Summer internships with working searchers, private equity firms and family offices.
- A speaker series running from industry ideation through deal sourcing to the transaction itself.

## Where to Read It

- Columbia ETA club: https://cbseta.com/
- The club inside the school: https://groups.gsb.columbia.edu/CETA/

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