Collaboration is a key element in the success of a project. In certain cases, at BeeBole for example, it is even vital; Mic and Hughes live in Belgium and I live in India.
While distance and time zone difference might seem an issue, we found that with a set of good collaboration tools, the problems were rapidly disappearing.
Time zone difference even became an advantage since we can’t talk to each others during certain period of the day, which obliges us to focus on our work instead of chatting and recreating the world constantly.