美國高功率半導體激光器制造商——恩耐公司

公司收入：不詳

公司總部：華盛頓州溫哥華市

所屬行業(yè)：激光技術

成立時間：2000年

員工人數(shù)：450

????靈活和堅韌不拔是創(chuàng)業(yè)家最重要的特質(zhì)，而斯科特?金尼兩者兼?zhèn)洹Ｋ邴溈襄a（McKinsey）擔任顧問。2000年，他募集了大量風險投資，成立了恩耐公司（nLight），生產(chǎn)用于改善光纖電信網(wǎng)絡的激光器。一年之后，全球電信市場崩潰。金尼辭退了員工，開發(fā)出了半導體激光二極管（右）的新用途。目前，半導體激光二極管主要用于激光脫毛的應用程序和戰(zhàn)斗機，用于干擾紅外線跟蹤式導彈。雖然恩耐公司沒有披露收入情況，但是，金尼稱，他的公司目前處于盈利狀態(tài)。而且，他還預計，銷售收入今年將上漲50%。市場研究機構Strategies Unlimited的分析師湯姆?豪斯金稱，全球激光技術每年的產(chǎn)值約為9億美元，盡管市場趨于飽和，但還在以超過15%的速度增長。他認為，恩耐公司可以通過銷售更綜合的激光器系統(tǒng)和組件來不斷發(fā)展壯大。

????——理查德?麥吉爾?墨菲

nLight

Revenue: Not available

Headquarters: Vancouver, Wash.

Industry: Laser technology

Founded: 2000

Employees: 450

????Flexibility and tenacity are key entrepreneurial traits, and Scott Keeney has both in spades. In 2000 the former McKinsey consultant raised a boatload of venture capital to launch nLight, which made lasers designed to improve the performance of fiber-optic telecom networks. A year later the global telecom market collapsed. Keeney laid off employees and developed new uses for his semiconductor laser diodes (right), which today are employed in applications like laser hair removal and on fighter jets to confuse heat-seeking missiles. Though nLight doesn't disclose revenue, Keeney says his firm is profitable, and he expects sales to rise 50% this year. It competes in a crowded, roughly $900 million annual market, but one that's growing at more than 15%, according to analyst Tom Hausken of Strategies Unlimited, a market research firm. Hausken thinks nLight can expand by selling more complete laser systems as well as components.

????--R.M.M.