Originated, By DealGen Partners
Issue No. 7
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]
"Escape competition through authenticity." — Naval Ravikant
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Watch a baseball game now and you can feel what changed. Every hitter is swinging for the fences, chasing launch angle, playing a number some model handed them before the first pitch. Nobody just tries to put the ball in play anymore. The feel got coached out of the game.
The same thing happened to dealmaking.
I get on calls with buyers who all sound identical. Same pitch, same opening line. "We have capital and we'd love to buy your business." Ten years ago that was enough to open a door. Today it opens nothing. Every fund, every family office, every sponsor is sitting on dry powder, saying the same sentence to the same handful of owners.
Capital used to be the edge. Now it's just the price of admission.
The buyers winning deals are answering a different question. Not "do you have the money." Everyone has the money. They can say who they are, why they're the right home for the business, and what happens to the thing an owner spent his life building after the wire clears. Then they move. They don't re-diligence every line item to death looking for a reason to walk. They use some feel. They have some conviction.
If people are open to reviewing some of the recent deals we've found, or search thesis' we've put together, lets schedule a call today.
That combination is rare now. Clear identity, real speed, the nerve to make a call. The spreadsheet can't give you any of it.
Capital is a commodity. You are not. The day you stop selling your checkbook and start selling your judgment, your speed, and your word, you stop competing with everyone else holding the same dollars. Be the dealmaker you tell people you are, and you land in the one percent who actually close.
If you took the money out of your pitch, would an owner still choose you?
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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