Essay About Personal Relationships And Minimum Salary

Search Fund Partnership Questionnaire
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Personal
What motivates you?
What are you passionate about?
What things do you like to do outside of work?
What kind of things dont you like to do?
Are you introverted or extroverted (do people give you energy?)
What kind of people do you associate with? Why?
How do you deal with conflict? Do you tend to avoid conflict?
What is your financial situation? What is the size and timing of any financial obligations?
What is the minimum salary you would take in the search fund process?
What is the minimum salary you would take as head of a company?
What do you expect your salary will be in the search fund process?
What do you expect your salary will be in acquiring a company?
Are you willing to take less / more salary for more / less equity?
What are you most proud of?
What would you say is your biggest disappointment?
What is your general life philosophy?
What is your definition of success?
Do you want to get married and have kids?
If so, how soon? What complications could arise from personal relationships?
What other personal complications might get involved with the search fund process?
Childhood
What is your family situation?
How many siblings do you have?
With whom do you have the best relationship?
Who was your mentor growing up? Why?
Where did you grow up and what things did you do?
How would you classify yourself in high-school?
What accomplishments, academic or extracurricular, did you achieve?
Major life decisions
What were the most important decisions in your life?
What influences shaped those decisions and why did you make those decisions?
What is your biggest regret?
Prior work experiences
How many companies have you worked for?
What were they?
Why did you select those jobs?
How much money did you make initially and then by the end (separate cash + bonus)?
If you switched jobs, why did you switch?
For each job, what did you enjoy most and what did you enjoy least?
What are your biggest professional successes?
What has been your biggest professional failure?
What did you learn from these experiences?
Do you have deal experience?
If so, what were the deals like and who were the parties involved?
Have you ever dealt with lawyers or accountants? What did you learn?
Have you ever had to negotiate against someone? If so, how did it go?
What is your negotiation style?
How do you deal with aggressive people?
What is your preferred method of dealing with people?
How do you value deals?
What items would you pay extra for? What items would you pay less for?
Finance
Do you have significant accounting knowledge and strong understanding of financial statements?
Have you ever been in an analyst/forecasting role?
Do you have strong excel / financial modeling skills?
Selling
Have you ever had to sell a product or service?
If so, what was it and were you successful?
If not, have you ever sold anything else? Was it successful?
Do you enjoy selling?
Have you had to maintain customer relationships?
Have you ever pitched to new customers?
Do you like facing customers?
What is your primary style in dealing with customers?
Are you a good presenter?
Do you like presenting?
How do you like to present yourself (attire/dress)?
Hiring / Firing
Have you ever had to hire some directly?
If not, have you had to interview many people? If so, what things do you look for?
Was it your decision or a team decision?
What would be your general hiring strategy/philosophy as the CEO of a small business?
Have you ever had to fire someone?
If not, have you ever been involved in the firing process or around it? If so, how did it go and what would you have done differently?
Do you think its better to build people up or quickly determine whether they are capable and if not let them go?
Leading
How would you characterize your leadership style?
Have you ever had direct management skills (i.e., did people report to you?)
If so, how many and what was your approach?