Molson Hart

True, there are a bunch of differences that may make these two classes of assets not worth comparing. With that said, let me try to anyways: Were there better deals to be had in public market equities or private market equities during the GFC of 2008?

Private.

Really? Is that because public equities, by virtue of being larger and public, had much more access to credit during the period of distress?

Public markets more efficient. True steals were found in privates.

Ranked in order of usefulness does deal-flow for private deals look like this? Brokers > Banks > Chamber of Commerce = Trade Associations = Twitter I've put up some alerts on BizBuySell (on the off-chance that you haven't done that, do so!), but need to plan for this better.

Direct is better than all of them. But yes. Trade orgs are a dead end.

:-/ most costly though

I’m not big on them in general. Others may have opposite experiences!