Originated, By DealGen Partners
Issue No. 10
sponsored by DealGen Partners:
A quick intro, for anyone new here.
I'm Joe Zanca, and I run DealGen Partners. We outsource business development for private equity firms, family offices, and qualified buyers. We work as a partner, not as a vendor. In plain terms, we become your deal origination engine.
The work speaks for itself. On average, our clients are under LOI within the first 90 to 120 days. And we stand behind it: we'll bring you 10 qualified deals within the first four months, or we work for free until we hit that number.
So if you're looking for a new platform company to buy, or one of your existing platforms is looking to grow through acquisition, let's talk. We'll get into the industry, do a little market mapping, and start putting together a qualified list of targets.
Reach out to me directly at [email protected]
"Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble." — Warren Buffett
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Most buyers spend their time looking for the perfect business. They build the criteria, they refine the thesis, they wait for the one that checks every box. Then it shows up, and they freeze.
I've seen it more times than I can count. A rare business hits the market. Clean books, a real owner, the kind of company that comes around maybe twice in a cycle. Everyone agrees it's special. And then everyone studies it. They want one more month, one more reference call, one more look. By the time they're ready, it's gone, bought by someone who decided in a week.
The hard part is that opportunity and readiness almost never show up on the same day. The deals that matter don't wait for you to feel comfortable. They reward the buyer who did the thinking in advance, knew exactly what they wanted, and had the conviction to move while everyone else was still getting comfortable.
If you are open to reviewing some of the recent deals we've found, or search thesis' we've put together, lets schedule a call today.
Preparation is what lets you move fast without being reckless. You're not gambling. You already knew what you were looking for. So when it rains, you're the one standing there with the bucket while everyone else runs home to look for one.
You can't manufacture a great opportunity. You can only be ready when one shows up. The work that looks boring, knowing your criteria cold, building relationships before you need them, having the capital lined up, is what lets you move in days instead of months. Readiness is the whole game. The opportunity is just the test.
If the deal of the decade landed on your desk tomorrow, could you actually move, or would you need another month to get ready?
This is the part of the newsletter where we open up the board.
Every idea you'll find here is a search we'd happily run with the right partner. An idea earns its spot one of two ways. Either it's a space where we're seeing strong deal flow right now and we're looking for a buyer to chase it with us — or it's a market we've watched fragment, where we see a real opportunity to build something through consolidation.
Feel free to click around and browse our idea database. If one of them fits what you're after, reach out and let's run it together.
If any of this resonates, I'd love to compare notes schedule a call
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In case you missed it:
Issue No. 7 — Everyone has the money now
Issue No. 8 — Pay to Play
Issue No. 9 — Nobody trusts their gut anymore