I've now found partners for the start up phase of the web project I've been designing for the last 15 or so months and am ready to start development work. 

My partners have deep expertise in designing and running customer development tests (because I will be sufficiently correct about my customer's problem to start the project but wrong about the details) and using what we learn can develop a minimum viable product (the most basic version of the website that demonstrates that the concept works) - a process that takes around 3 months.

From there, God willing, we can demonstrate the path to growth and seek serious investment, enough to fund a small team of Ruby and/or PHP developers. As such I'm now actively seeking seed funding ($60+k) to get this first phase off the ground. I've begun discussion with an angel investor about their potential involvement but if you have any other suggestions on where else to look I'd love to hear from you.