LaserMonks
There is an article in the San Francisco Chronicle today about a company called LaserMonks.com. In 2002, Bernard McCoy founded an online ink and toner business that today has grown into a multi-million-dollar operation. Contrary to the way most businesses work, his own salary hasn't increased in proportion to the company's profits. The company is named LaserMonks.com because Bernard McCoy is a monk. McCoy is one of six Cistercian brothers who pray, work and live at Our Lady of Spring Bank Abbey in central/west Wisconsin. The monks "have no personal income or personal possessions," McCoy explains, but "monasteries, by the Rule of St. Benedict that we follow, are required to be self-supporting."
Read about how their business developed and evolved.
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Posted, in Entrepreneurship, by Nora Richardson on March 24, 2008 | Permalink
