when it comes to communication giftings, just as with everything else, all men are NOT created equal.<p>A startup dynamics relies 83.5% on communication flow, so there are inherent advantages at having people be able to use many of a variety of means: texting, face-to-face, a ticket track system, whiteboard, email, wiki, a chat around some beer.<p>This is easy to accomplish when you have everybody in the same building, and throw away the key.<p>Alas, some people have a /life/, and do not feel the Yahoo sleeping-bags-in-the-corridor to be their ideal (see? not everybody same=same).<p>so, let me ask you, what do YOU prefer as comm models, you people in your core team?<p>If y'all are the touchy-feely type, that like to look people in the eye, and have a hard time editing even a Wikipedia page, you're better off with some sort a headquarters.<p>OTOH, if you apologize every time it takes you longer than 2:48 minutes to answer an email , 24/7, and Joomla is your middle name, then remote becomes /possible/, and then you can gain the <i>many</i> advantages of remote, the first one being able to hire beyond normal commuting range- lowering costs and raising quality of available hires to the point you actually can get the very cream in your field.<p>One other thing to consider: what is your product? As in eating your own dog-food, the medium is the message, and all that, if you're into mobile or software, well, relying in bodies present in one place becomes sort of silly, or the other way around, if y'all are into some new walk-in service franchise.