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- If there's no unequal investment in the startup (like for example someone putting in a lot of money or more time compared to others) ownership should be split equally amongst the founders. Working remotely is a nonsense argument for getting less equity, not giving everyone the same will most likely end up in conflicts later on.
- Make sure you have your equity on paper and come up with a vesting scheme so no co-founder can walk out with 33% after a couple of months while the others have to carry on for years. (for example unlock 4% every month of work so that you only earned the complete amount after putting in at least 2 years)
- Becoming profitable and/or receiving investments can take a while, does every team member have the runway to work on this long enough to not need any income from it?
- You can't just leave like with a regular job since the future of the startup depends on what you do, keep this in mind. If you are not 100% sure you want to spend the next couple of years on this tell the co-founders beforehand that you will build the MVP and decide once that's done if you want to continue or not. A vesting scheme will make sure you at least get something out of it.
- If you complete the MVP and don't want to continue you can consider selling the MVP to your co-founders at a predefined rate in exchange for your shares. If you do this for a good price and terms and they have the funds for it this might be best for all parties since you are no longer connected to each others as shareholders, they don't have to involve you in new decisions and you don't have to free up time in the future for a company you are no longer involved in otherwise.
- You might want to wait with formalizing the shareholder deeds until a investment comes into play (this all depends on where to company is located and what the laws are of course). Do get stuff signed on paper beforehand though!
- Don't undervalue yourself, in the end YOU are building it, idea's alone are worth nothing.
- Startups are rough, prepare for a lot of fights, failure and lost free time and decide for yourself if you think this startup is worth spending a couple of years of your life on. Keep in mind that most startups fail, my personal experience is that this usually has to do with the dedication of the team doing it.
Good luck!
2: Why is explained here: https://blog.iota.org/the-transparency-compendium-26aa5bb8e2... - CyberCrypt is hired to review and audit it.
3: The wallet is secure and does what it needs to do, no, it's not very pretty or user friendly but it works. A new wallet (Trinity wallet) will be released very soon.
There's a pretty complete thread on reddit with most FUD in it and why it's not valid:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/7j81tq/fud_copy_pasta...
Here's an article by one of the IOTA founders addressing your second article:
https://blog.iota.org/curl-disclosure-beyond-the-headline-18...
I think a non-blockchain, Tangle based concept like IOTA uses is a way better future, better in terms of scaling (the more users the better it gets), no transaction fees and, maybe best of all, no mining/miners.
canvasContext.beginPath() Begins drawing a new shape. canvasContext.beginPath(x, y) Sets the end coordinates of a line.
this second beginPath should be lineTo, took a minute to debug in level 16 :)
- They use a octocopter; that's great for the payload, plus it adds some redundancy; If a motor fails the others take over to get back safely without crashing. A bad thing about this is that it's a heavy lift, so more battery drain, so it needs a bigger battery == even more drain. I think you can get 30 minutes of flight time at the max out of that, with a lot of heavy batteries.
- Multicopters carrying payloads use powerful electronic motors; You do not want to put a finger near a spinning prop, for safety reasons a UAV within reach of people or animals should always be controlled by a human, what if someone runs up to the package to pick it up and the UAV automatically spins up to return to home?
- Auto landing is possible, but might be dangerous; The current systems (for example ArduPilot) use GPS and acc/baro/gyro/compasses to achieve autonomous flight. It works if your in field without trees around you, but the system can't find the best spot to land for you, so you need to land it by hand for this delivery service, controlled by a pilot over FPV (first person, wireless video connection).
- Experimental FPV ranges over 10 miles are possible, but not fail proof, especially in a non-line of sight environment or while landing (low to the ground).
Hate it to be a nay-sayer, this will have a future but the tech isn't here yet at this moment to accomplish it fully autonomous and safe.
Oh, and yes, it is 'cross-platform', except for the fact that there are so many things not working on Android (either bugs or non supported in the API for Android) that you need a seperate build for android to make it reasonably useful.
This is al based on my experience with Titanium Mobile from around 2 years ago, so it might be better now.
- Native apps take a lot of time to build, especially when you are a web-developer without in-depth knowledge of the extensive frameworks available to the native platforms.
- Wrappers work, but are not nearly as great and snappy as native apps; They might contain a lot of hard to fix bugs as well and are harder to debug if they tend to crash.
- HTML5 only apps are not available in the market/store so no free advertising, you can't access things like the camera with HTML5 only, you therefore need a wrapper.
My vote goes to native development; Although it's more work and code to write it's much faster and stable if done correctly. You've got more freedom and bugs can be solved. A native app just feels right, where a HTML5 only app won't give you the best user experience you can get, no matter how much time you put into it. If you need a flexible, big, cross-platform app without a lot of budget to build at least 2 native apps a HTML5 app with wrapper would be a decent option, but for anything else (especially the more simple apps with just 2 or 3 different views) you should go with native.
Edit - Oh, you can just enter any twitter username without validation, my bad :)
http://flitetest.com/articles/T_Rex_800E_DSLR_Camera_Gimbal
It demo's a Heli carying a DSLR and afterwards (after the first 7 minutes of video) they talk about this compared to multi-rotors. For the best video results you should probably pick the stable octocopter, you can fly FPV as well with a multicopter, great for live previewing your video.
On level 5 I used a textfile on the compromised level 2 server instead of the 'cleaner' method shown here.
On level 6 I used some more JS:
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It's funny to see how similar the python script is in level 8 with what I wrote, would be cool to see more writeups on this one with different solutions :)
I've already mailed you this, but for the others to read:
Some of the decisions are inspired by "The 4 hour workweek" book by Timothy Ferriss; You could see this as one of my "muses" if you're familiar with it. My price is based on the idea that it should be somewhere in between $50 and $200, too cheap and it isn't worth the hassle, too expensive and people would have to think a bit more about it or they expect extra support. I've checked out other courses as well. Real life courses are a lot more expensive, online courses are a on average a bit cheaper, but most of them are videocourses and you don't have the option to ask questions or do the self tests.
My first try was a plain text course. After creating the second chapter for 50% I knew this wasn't the way to go. Way too much text to read, people could buy a book and get the same.
Next try was a video-course, something like lynda.com is offering. It's nice, but: most of the video is just static for minutes, you listen to teacher and the only animation you will see is a powerpoint transition or someone typing in some code. Video's consume a lot of bandwidth as well and what I really missed was to option to click links or copy code snippets during a video-course.
Next try was video with popcorn.js. This worked, but still had the same video issues and I lacked the space on my screen to show the extra context.
My last try was the current one. It worked like I wanted it to work, but I couldn't get the speech right myself, so I made a written script and had a voice-over do it.
I've only created this first chapter to see if people are interested (another useful advice from the book), If I get enough potential orders I'll finish it, since it takes a huge chunk of my time to finish all 21 remaining chapters and I need to pay the voice-over as well. I don't really have any expectations, if it works out: great, if not: another nice experience, no big losses here.