Originated, By DealGen Partners
Issue No. 6
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]
"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers." — Herbert Hoover
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I took my two-and-a-half-year-old fishing last weekend.
She mostly wanted to throw rocks in the water. I was okay with that.
But standing there with her, rod in hand, I kept thinking about something my grandfather used to say every time we went out together when I was a kid. He fished the same way every single time. Same spot. Same time of day. Same bait for the season. He read the weather. He watched the water. He never just showed up and hoped for the best. He was methodical about every piece of it before the line ever hit the water.
I used to think he was being stubborn. I understand now that he was being precise.
Fishing is one of those things that looks simple from the outside. Anyone can pick up a rod. But the people who actually catch fish, consistently, are thinking about location, bait, time of day, weather, current. And when they finally get a bite, they don't panic. They've already thought through what they're going to do when that moment comes. They land the fish because the preparation happened long before the hook set.
My grandfather caught a lot of fish. He also built a good life. I don't think that was a coincidence.
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.
Deal origination works exactly the same way. Anyone can send emails. Anyone can buy a list and blast it out and wait. But the people who find real deals, the ones that never hit the market, are thinking about the right industries, the right geographies, the right relationships, the right timing, and what they're going to do the moment an owner raises his hand. Preparation is the whole job. Everything else is just hoping you get lucky.
Where in your deal sourcing right now are you casting into the wrong water and calling it a strategy?
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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