S&UP and U.S. Light Force
it's fine
No budget, no legal representation, no equipment, no customers, no mentors. A year to five for a command vehicle build, 1.5 million dollar estimate a “starting point” according to Glick Fire Equipment spokesperson. We have no growth to show, no raising, no pitch deck to deal from; no investment capitalist will want to hear that, no angel investor will invest anything beyond kind platitudes. No free money.
If we take into consideration an idea represents around 2% of an overall plan, this idea shouldn’t make it beyond a feasibility study and should be ended now. The odds are so far opposed we’re in the noise.
Repeat the oath - we pledge nothing beyond the purpose.
Repeat the motto - if there is a way, we will find it.
It’s clearly time to file as incorporated and start chasing revenue. We could go non-profit and legitimately beg for money, or we could go for-profit and be in a very, very cold place. Crowd funding? If you have an idea, bleep-bloop it down below.
While we’re waiting for the first recruits, my job is clearly revenue.
Revenue Streams
Focus on early adoption of hollow core optical fiber and best practices for integration, test and characterization. Offer problem solving services, test services, sales and demos of instrument suites. Offer training sessions for handling, managing and developing high level skills for fiber optics. Innovate, expand services, develop partnerships and devices suppliers and sell, sell, sell. Add to this category.
Unique Value Proposition
Photonics and optical fiber equate to a vast repository. Knowledge and skills resemble an art form in many aspects. Intellectual property is valuable, skills are marketable, and experience builds trust. On a casual level S&UP consists of 75 years or more combined experience in the field with engineers, technicians, veterans, influencers and ordinary people as advocates. “If there is a way, we will find it”.
We’ll keep rolling the dice. Indicators are good. There appears to be a revolutionary plus happening in photonics with hollow core fiber being the backbone. Applications are early on and there are plenty of challenges, even talk of zero-gravity manufacturing. Supercomputing, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, cyber security, space exploration, satellite technologies, deep sea, aeronautics, defense and the list goes on and on. There is a need, and S&UP is well positioned. These are indeed strange and unusual places.
If you like tinkering around, geeking out or just want to know more, jump on in here, we’re firing up the laser.