Is a team of work-at-home employees realistic?
swombat: That's how we're running our start-up (which, admittedly, is still quite small). We (the "active shareholders") meet physically once a week, but have no central office.As for the development team (3 people), one of us actually lives in the States most of the year, so we don't meet physically very often - instead, we have iteration meetings 3 times a week on Skype. Tasks are broken down so that they fit into 2-day chunks of time to make it easier to measure progress.There are certainly challenges, but I think if you're in the same geographical location they're not too hard to overcome. Good luck!