Comments on: Startup du jour: mFoundry

By: christian

christian — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:18:49 +0000

Agreed. This company has yet to have a breakout hit in the mobile space and generate anything close to enough revenue to become viable or support the company.

20% downsizing in the recent past and technology that makes most of the applications look near identical does not look impressive.

Potential suitors should be wary. They will simply be buying what appears to be a very simple menu system that reads and display XML datafeeds on some Java handsets.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:43:19 +0000

This product seems overly complex for not a lot of gain. I have to learn yet another complex scripting language that does not conform to standards to write apps for a limited set of phones.

Better off with mobile opera and ajax.

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:52:34 +0000

Three of the smartest people I met while working at Preview Travel (now Travelocity) work for mFoundry. We've come close to working with them a couple times and I really like what they are up to.

By: Chris D

Chris D — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:57:49 +0000

~$10M venture capital is high. To make the venture successful (say 5x ROI), the acquisition price would need to be close to $100M depending on the % of ownership.

Needless to say, that's a high exit target for most Web2.0 companies. Wish 'em luck, tho'

By: Nota

Nota — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:12:44 +0000

Kelly Rodriques serves on mFoundry's board. There's nothing that man can't sell. Of course they'll be acquired. On very favorable terms.

By: mika

mika — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:40:28 +0000

I like to bring to your attention a UK startup – Tricastmedia.com – “TWUIK Rich Media Engine” launched recently at CTIA LA. TWUIK is a collection of mobile widgets and user interface libraries that let content developers develop innovative and creative user interface for their mobile applications. It’s like creating smooth fluid Macromedia’s FLASH like kinda animation and user interface effects to enhance interactivity for mobile software.

By providing richer and more compelling mobile consumer experience, Tricastmedia’s TWUIK standards-based Rich Media Engine (RME) dramatically boosts the consumption and stickiness of mobile content and applications.

Source: http://mobiko.blogs.com/mutant/2006/06/latestomegade.html

Watch all their video demos here… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83AZV8vHgnw&feature=PlayList&p=2FE22B9F3F6C9029&index=0