01 / EDUCATE
Learn the model.
Make the ETA journey legible — from search criteria and diligence to financing, transition, and ownership.
Students × businesses × brighter tomorrows
Succession
starts here.
Schulich ETA helps students understand a different path to entrepreneurship: finding, acquiring, operating, and growing an existing business.
Learn
The model
Connect
With operators
Build
For the long run
Our mission
A new generation
of business builders.
We make Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition understandable, accessible, and practical for students who want to build by carrying strong businesses forward.
Through education, exposure, and community, Schulich ETA introduces students to the search, acquisition, and operation of enduring companies — and to the people already doing the work.
02 / CONNECT
Meet the people.
Bring students into conversations with searchers, operators, investors, lenders, advisors, and alumni.
03 / EXPERIENCE
Think like an owner.
Create hands-on opportunities that move ETA from an interesting idea to a real, credible career path.
The ETA path
From opportunity
to impact.
ETA is not one transaction. It is a progression of judgment, relationships, conviction, and responsibility. We help students understand the whole arc.
01↗
Search
Define a thesis, study industries, source opportunities, and find a business worth pursuing.
02↗
Assess
Understand the company, evaluate quality, conduct diligence, and decide what the opportunity is truly worth.
03↗
Acquire
Structure the transaction, secure capital, align stakeholders, and close with confidence.
04↗
Operate
Lead people, preserve what works, improve what can, and create durable value over time.
Why ETA matters
Entrepreneurship does not always begin with a blank page. Sometimes it begins by earning the right to carry something good forward.
Events & community
Learn. Meet.
Build together.
Our programming is designed around real exposure: thoughtful conversations, practical workshops, and a community that takes ownership seriously.
Speaker sessions
Hear the story behind the deal.
Operators and investors unpack the decisions, trade-offs, and lessons that rarely make it into a textbook.
Experience→
Workshops
Practice the judgment.
Work through cases, industries, diligence questions, and ownership decisions in a hands-on setting.
Education→
Community
Meet people on the same path.
Build relationships with curious students, experienced alumni, and the broader ETA ecosystem.
Connection→
Get involved
Be part of
what comes next.
Whether you are discovering ETA for the first time or already thinking like an owner, there is a place here to learn, contribute, and meet people building for the long term.