Finding a Ready-Made Dev Team?

marshrew writes "We are a small startup just coming out of a period of R&D with IP and prototype code (containing open source, commercial & freelancer-built custom components) developed/integrated in-house by essentially one guy. We're at the point where we want to build out first commercial implementation which will require a handful of developers for at least six months. We really don't have time or funds to go through a developer recruiting cycle, create a practice, get the team "gelled" etc. What we'd really like to do is find a small pre-existing team which which we could form a relationship to get our product out the door and possibly continue working with. We don't mean a splinter group from a larger dev house, but an agile, self-contained team, who enjoy working together and have an existing practice. Geography is not a problem as we are used to working in a distributed manner." Does such an animal exist? What have other teams done in a situation like this?

Perhaps you could hire these guys

[FidelCatsro]

In 2005, a crack Hacker unit was sent to prison by an over-zealous RIAA for a crime they didn't commit(Theft , it should have been copyright infringement).

These men promptly got released due to a technicality ,to the Los Angeles und3rgr0und!!!!. Today, still wanted by their Previous employers due to a contractual problem and for maintaining some perl code , they survive as Developers of FORTRAN.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...the @-Team.

Sony contractors

[LiquidCoooled]

I hear there are a group of developers who are just being dropped by Song BMG, perhaps you could give them a call ;)

Re:Perhaps you could hire these guys

[NewmanBlur]

"I gotta work with this crazy foo'!?!"

If I hear that one word one more time.....

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

AGILE.....goddamnit. It's software, not a 4 legged creature!

Outsourcing?

[Anonymous Coward]

I hear Bangalore have such a team, as long as they don't have to deal with "rude Americans", you don't mind second-rate Java and the whole identity theft thing can be overlooked.

Oh and if you need a call centre for tech support, then we have someone who can read from a script in an accent that's sure to make people just put the phone down, in fact we have a family household of 100 such people who are all willing to move to Mountain View, CA.

Another possibility

[DavidNWelton]

This team works for cheap:

http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/talent.asp [newtechusa.com]

[OT] I found them...

[nuntius]

but the poster probably doesn't want another top-notch, ASCII-art dungeon game.

Walmart????

[reece]

You can find everything there...

Please excuse my typos...

[Wonderkid]

Don't you hate it when that happens? You write something well meaning and helpful, do a Preview, and yet still fail to spot all the errors until after posting it. I guess it's the thought that counts! The fact most /. postings are written by busy people in the mo of the heatment mean that mustooks are bond to hippin wonse in a wyle. Oh whell. :-)

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN

[Ithika]

lame.sourceforge.net [sourceforge.net]

Re:Funding is a problem and will remain a problem.

[Odocoileus]

As a matter of fact, I have my senior project class next semester. Do you have any girls?