How does one start a project like this and get paid? What are the revenue sources for the team? It's a great product, and the fact that it's open source is amazing.
Create an awesome framework that people want to use (Meteor started out as a travel guide site, I believe, and other YC batchmates wanted to use their web framework)
Step number two:
Keep building the web framework
Step number three:
Raise money to keep building that framework, with a partner who believes for the long term
Step number four:
Keep being awesome, and become the tool that a ton of devs want to use
Step number five:
Monetize with your own enterprise support and hosting
[1] - http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/andreessen-horowitz-keeps-e...