[mchannon]

A thought on piracy- don't worry about it. A user is a user and some users can easily afford $1k/yr for their software and others couldn't scrape together $9.99 (think international). You get to count pirates and nonpirates both as users at this early stage in your company, and it's users that make your project worth something (so long as you can accurately count them), not license revenue.

Very few successful app developers will risk the rug being pulled out from under them, which I'm sure you'll retain the power to do. That can either come from breaking their pirated API key and bricking their installed apps or a clean, well-worded time-to-pay-plus-penalties letter from your attorney.

Highly pirated properties from Game of Thrones episodes to Metallica tracks all derive benefits from merchandising and live performances that owe some of their underpinning to popularity through piracy. Since you'll never prevent piracy, might as well anticipate and leverage it into more value for your shareholders.