Daniel Odio

http://danielodio.com/project-stargate-always-on-skype-video-connectio… is the first popular article I can recall about this. http://danielodio.com/remote-always-on-connecting-our-offices-with-sqw… is a followup that mentions that the always-on connections would have problems. Perch is a startup that's mentioned a lot in the comments, and I trialled it and it was pretty nice, but it just shut down last month: https://perch.co/blog/goodbye-perch/ If you have a couple of Macs to spare, https://papercutsoftware.github.io/teleportme/ looks interesting, but I haven't tried it myself.

BTW some great feedback in the post comments from Lockitron co-founder Paul with more detail on how & why they took this approach: http://danielodio.com/dissecting-the-massively-over-subscribed-lockitr…

Thanks for the link to angellist - something I aspire to join but as I said in my post, you have to be approved to get listed and one of the requirements is you're not a newbie - you must have connections to other angels - in fact you must be referred by another angellist angel and have invested at least 3 times before. This was revealed in this great interview with one of the angel.co founders: http://www.danielodio.com/2010/10/21/fundraising-hacks-interview-with-…

There have been a few related questions recently, so in lieu of actually writing out a really long answer to yours, I'll just post the links to the other ones, as some of the answers (my answer anyway) would be very similar. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5161818 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162707 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5183697 Also, how do LLCs accept investment funding? Is there anything required in an LLC's articles/operating agreement for this? It's covered in the "How to start an LLC" books. But the tl/dr; from a startup perspective is this: If you want to grow to be a big company, and/or if you expect to take institutional capital, don't organize as an LLC, organize as a traditional C corp. This is because A. LLC's have a limit to the number of owners, and B. VC's won't, as a rule, invest in an LLC. There are detailed technical reasons to explain why this is, but I'm not qualified to explain them, I'm just aware they exist. That said, you can start out as an LLC and then reorganize as a C corp later if needed. Whether or not that makes sense for you depends on way to many factors to explain here, and, again, I'm not really qualified. "Talk to a lawyer". How do you negotiate investment contracts fairly? There's a fair amount of baseline knowledge that you need to have, if you're going to take outside money, related to valuations, standard term-sheet terms, etc., etc. It's not really something that is easy to put into a…