Evening Class Visit: Private Equity & Venture Capital

About the Course

Complements entrepreneurship courses by examining issues associated with venture capital from the viewpoint of the venture capitalist. Focuses on strategic and organizational issues associated with the firms that provide private equity to entrepreneurial firms. Examines the process by which private equity firms raise money from their investors as well as the associated agency problems. Explores the private equity firm’s decision to invest in a new venture, how to evaluate the strategy of the new venture, and its likelihood for success or failure. Also, the process by which the private equity firm exits from its investments and how nonfinancial corporations can use a private equity model to finance new business ventures.