grats on getting funded. didn’t i suggest to you about finding the right investor…

the palm pilot’s dead. why do you want to go down that route? is there something you’re doing that absolutely cannot be done with web technologies or that are absolutely required (and cannot be done via browser) as part of the initial project? the black berry is still the dominant handheld, samsung/lg have their low cost units, why marry into a platform?

why do you need a bunch of guys doing “server side stuff”? what could they all possibly be doing?

if you’re working on the application development, why not scour the local colleges for a junior programmer intern for cheap? you supervise, ensure organization, coding standards, timelines, testing, etc, and let junior come in with his new fangled book learned technologies?