Along the way we have evolved from a team that was primarily located in Orlando, FL to a team that became distributed across the US. We have pretty much become a ready made, distributed development team for a companies that need one.
The issue is we just can't seem to capitalize on the fact that we are a team of senior devs ready to go, what ends up happening is one or two of us find a decent contract and slowly we pick up the other developers. When we run across a really skilled developer that “gets it” they usually gravitate towards us and become part of the team so with every contract we seem to grow.
We have built some large high volume apps for IBM, Marriott and a host of other companies and we have amassed a lot of business knowledge in the travel, conference platforms, higher education, k-12 and e-reader technologies. We have guys with a lot of experience mobile, Javascript based web apps and a host of back ends. Before this comes off sounding like a sales pitch, I would like to get to the point which is that we are a group of developers in high demand markets, as well we posses high demand skill sets, but we just cant seem to parlay this into something more than just contract work.
My question is how would you parlay what is supposed to be the greatest assets in this market, “developers” into a lucrative arrangement, for all parties involved, that most importantly the team members enjoy? How would you go about getting a team of 10-15 developers / QA / dev ops / and a hands on CTO into a project that they are passionate about, that supports them and has more skin to it than just a contract or job. I don't even know how, I would go about marketing such an arrangement to someone with the idea and the capital, or find and existing company that needs such a team.