Week 8 Reading Reflection

    After reading Chapter 8 of the textbook, I think that what surprised me the most was the section on fighting terrorism with financial opportunity. I didn't quite understand how these two concepts related to each other at all, until I read the section and found out so much on Ronald Bruder's theories of why terrorism and finance relate to each other. I think that one part of this reading that was confusing to me was the definition of business angels, and how that goes hand in hand with informal risk capitalists. I would probably ask the author how those two terms relate to one another. I would also ask the author how he/she came up with the list of criteria for evaluating new-venture proposals. There is nothing, however, that I feel the author was wrong about though.