I'm highly interested with incorporating bitshares into my REI LLC. Can a developer please acknowledge that you see the questions below? I don't need answers to them right away, but it would be nice to know that you see them so that you can think about them when possible.
Is it possible to limit the number of shares that an asset allows? I do not want to open up the LLC to random 1$ investors. They will not receive a good roi, and it would be a nightmare for me to try to keep track of a million 1$ investments.
Your company won't be publicly traded anyway. You will be whitelisting keys and so you can make people agree to whatever terms you want. Did you mean to ask, even among people you explicitly whitelist, don't allow them to own less than X number of shares? I don't think that makes sense. Obviously you can limit the number of shares you issue, if that's what you actually meant.
EDIT: Can a feature request be made to allow accounts to input all of that information so that they can be "pre-approved" for investments similar to this? Decentralized protection of data that allows you to purchase shares in centralized companies sounds good in my head.
You'll need to do this info verification outside of our system on your, at least until someone makes a service to make it easier. You'll probably have a lot of manual processing to do anyway.
Also, whitelisting: does this mean I could whitelist particular account names so that only they could purchase a share? If so then that would be great since I could gather all the "know your customer" (in this case partner) information needed for the LLC.
Yes, that's the point - you can only legally issue shares if you know who the owners are.
Remember that bitshares is JUST a database that keeps track of who has what. We can make ownership transfer restricted in the ways that make the thing you are transferring a legally compliant share of your company, in particular restricting ownership to people you approve. Everything else is still completely up to you.