Building a Company the Old-Fashioned Way: Meadowlark Optics, Inc.

Editor(s): José Miguel López-Higuera; Brian Culshaw

Author(s): Tom Baur, Garry Gorsuch

Published: 2008

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.786604.ch7

Abstract

This chapter presents the path followed by these entrepreneurs to build the new company. Considerations concerning the business plan, the financing, legal considerations, and funding principles at the beginning, followed with comments about the formative and transitional years, are included. The chapter concludes with key topics to be considered by entrepreneurs planning to start a new business.