[coldtea]

>and that this might only take a couple weeks to sort out

Unless you have the demo to end all demos and some VC connections, I don't think "a couple of weeks" is anywhere near realistic to sort our a "burst of investment". Not to any amount enough to hire to make a dev team, as you said is your goal.

"Six months to a year, and after quite a lot of struggle" is probably more realistic.