ABSTRACT The venture capital and private equity investment fields are not as well understood as other sectors of the financial industry, especially those focused on publicly traded instruments, such as stocks and bonds. To help business librarians understand venture capital and private equity firms, this article looks at how these businesses invest. By briefly examining investments by three venture capitalists and three private equity firms, readers can begin to understand the methods and aims of those investors. This article describes investments by venture capital leaders Georges Doriot of American Research and Development, William J. Casey, and Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins. It also describes some of the criteria applied by those venture capitalists to select firms in which to invest: how they evaluated companies and the executives who ran them. The article also looks at three private equity firms, Warburg Pincus, Tribeca Asset Management, and the Carlyle Group, companies those PE firms purchased, and factors that made those acquisitions profitable.

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风险投资和私募股权公司做什么？一些当前和历史的例子

摘要 风险投资和私募股权投资领域并不像金融业的其他部门那样被了解，尤其是那些专注于公开交易的工具，如股票和债券。为了帮助商业图书馆员了解风险投资和私募股权公司，本文着眼于这些企业如何投资。通过简要考察三位风险投资家和三位私募股权公司的投资，读者可以开始了解这些投资者的方法和目标。本文介绍了美国研发部门的风险投资领袖 Georges Doriot、William J. Casey 和 Kleiner Perkins 的 Tom Perkins 的投资。它还描述了这些风险投资家在选择投资公司时所采用的一些标准：他们如何评估公司和经营这些公司的高管。文章还考察了华平投资、翠贝卡资产管理和凯雷集团这三家私募股权公司、这些私募股权公司收购的公司以及使这些收购有利可图的因素。