I was part of a startup in the mid 2000s that wanted to make it easy to shop for homes using your mobile phone. We used j2me and actually got the app installed on a few phones. I wrote up a small white paper on j2me: http://www.mooreds.com/midp/midp.html
I believe the startup failed because it wasn't anyone's first priority. Every one of the four founders had a day job, even though we all had double digit ownership percentages. I don't recall if we even knew enough to have the stock vest.
So the tech folks worked on the product on weekends and I don't know how much the sales and marketing folks worked.
There were also issues with marketing, distribution and the fact the mobile ecosystem wasn't quite there which made the app painful to use, but I think it might have worked had we been all in (or even one of us had).
I believe the startup failed because it wasn't anyone's first priority. Every one of the four founders had a day job, even though we all had double digit ownership percentages. I don't recall if we even knew enough to have the stock vest.
So the tech folks worked on the product on weekends and I don't know how much the sales and marketing folks worked.
There were also issues with marketing, distribution and the fact the mobile ecosystem wasn't quite there which made the app painful to use, but I think it might have worked had we been all in (or even one of us had).
RIP homesonphones.com