Re: Photodiode amplifier noise

John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 12:48:51 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Phil Hobbs wrote:
Joerg wrote:
[...]

You could carve out a niche catering to the fiber optics scientists, an area where extreme profit margins are customary. But it depends where you live. California is currently too biz-unfriendly for me to start anything where I'd need employees or where sales are involved. If you live in NY state it could be the same.

That thought has come up in conversation. Stay tuned.

Interesting! BTW, it would be good if your web site states a few more details about exactly what kinds of projects you feel competent to take on, experiences and so on. If a client needs a consultant in the optics area I would know where you'd be a good match but I found that a lot of people come to my web site out of coincidence, and then call. No referrals or anything. About half of those "inverse cold calls" result in actual consulting. Some of them really interesting, the usual analog stuff but totally new markets for me.

When you open a real brick-and-mortar kind of business which you almost have to if you produce anything, watch out for overregulation, over-fining and stuff like that. Even if it's just you and a couple of techs some day they might hit you because one bathroom isn't 100% compliant with some law or the lettering on some poster was too small. Best to do that in a state that's very biz-friendly and also won't tax your biz into oblivion.

We haven't had a lot of interference, here in San Francisco. We're
across the street from the Building Inspection Department and four
blocks from City Hall.


It took us over four (!) years to get a building permit for a new educational building at our church. Despite the fact that this includes a ball field open to the public and gets kids off the streets and out of trouble. Without one penny of public money, all paid for by our congregation. This is ridiculous. I've once read a bumper sticker saying "Make welfare as hard to get as a building permit" and I must say I'd be in support of that by now.


The fire department inspects us once every year or two and checks the
fire extinguishers and tests the alarm system. The State Disability
folks check our paperwork every couple of years... no problems so far.
No hassle about bathrooms or posters or other nuisance stuff. Of
course, state and fed taxes are horrible.


Yeah. Payroll tax is around 1.5% here, 0.63% in Nevada. Income tax is about 10% here, 0% in Nevada. So that alone makes it >10% more expensive to do business.


Graffiti is a nuisance. The city writes us up if there stuff on our
building. We'll get a fine if we don't paint it over within something
like 60 days after the notice, which is silly since we get tagged a
couple of times a week. Of course, nobody arrests the taggers, because
if they do the judges dismiss them.


When do you guys fire those judges? After one of those kids has committed murder? Something's out of whack there, seriously ...


I don't blame companies who "offshore" their manufacturing to Alabama
or Mexico. That would export a lot of expensive problems.


Actually, sometimes I am thinking about Alabama. A business friend who is thinking about the same said the Huntsville area is pretty nice.

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