Entrepreneurship through acquisition has become a well-documented path with its own conventions. The primer is the canonical starting point; the rest fills in the operating reality, which the primer necessarily compresses.
The canonical document. Read it first and read all of it.
The case for acquisition over founding, written for the individual buyer.
Interviews with people who have actually done it, including the parts that went wrong.
The operating side, once the acquiring is done.
The mechanics, which apply the same way whether you are an owner or a searcher.
You will understand the search model, its funding conventions, and whether the life it produces is one you actually want.