Well I'd build another experimental laboratory like I had before so many disasters struck.
If you're careful you can get a lot more done than people who have spent 10x the money or even $100 million sometimes.
I never really wanted less than 10x the progress I could get in an academic or industrial institution, and for that it really helps to build it your own way.
Even though I made more than a million using my own technology, there was no windfall, I never had that much in the bank at one time to work with.
So it's really just the same thing I would have done when I still had the first lab I owned, if I would have managed to accumulate a million, which is build me another lab.
Actually I was already setting up a second location for a lot less than a million, where it would also be able to do enough invoiceable work to pay its way too, but it turned out to be too late, the final disaster came too soon.
Had the equipment standing by, and the infrastructure at the more disaster-resistant location over halfway ready for deployment too.
That's all ancient history, now I might be more likely to get a million worth of equipment onto benches and start turning them into money-making machines, without having any cash outlay at all.
After that if I had a million in cash I would put deployment on steroids and do the exponential growth thing (within limits) like normal but from a much more advanced starting point, and at a scale that can return funds to the bank faster than they can be drained by disaster.
For me a million cash would be critical mass toward financial growth, primarily for people other than myself who need a leg up.
I wouldn't let it stop me, I'll probably go forward with a million less than that even if there are more survival activities involved.
If you're careful you can get a lot more done than people who have spent 10x the money or even $100 million sometimes.
I never really wanted less than 10x the progress I could get in an academic or industrial institution, and for that it really helps to build it your own way.
Even though I made more than a million using my own technology, there was no windfall, I never had that much in the bank at one time to work with.
So it's really just the same thing I would have done when I still had the first lab I owned, if I would have managed to accumulate a million, which is build me another lab.
Actually I was already setting up a second location for a lot less than a million, where it would also be able to do enough invoiceable work to pay its way too, but it turned out to be too late, the final disaster came too soon.
Had the equipment standing by, and the infrastructure at the more disaster-resistant location over halfway ready for deployment too.
That's all ancient history, now I might be more likely to get a million worth of equipment onto benches and start turning them into money-making machines, without having any cash outlay at all.
After that if I had a million in cash I would put deployment on steroids and do the exponential growth thing (within limits) like normal but from a much more advanced starting point, and at a scale that can return funds to the bank faster than they can be drained by disaster.
For me a million cash would be critical mass toward financial growth, primarily for people other than myself who need a leg up.
I wouldn't let it stop me, I'll probably go forward with a million less than that even if there are more survival activities involved.