@officialfuzzy, once i get a budget on hands i'll make some noice here and will apply for (human) resources for paid tasks and even positions in our project.
Graphene chain is our target (specs not yet public).
Suppose it will happen in weeks, not months. The Idea is a "Production DAC" basically, with full time positions for PM, SW architect and a 2-3 dev leads (core+backend+frontend), all atomic tasks are estimated and available for bounty. All development process is on github and goes public, while moderated. Nothing new here except for the DAC thing. And a share drop.
Of course we will bake a multi-sign account for investors (board of directors actually) and a token for shares to be bought by these investors. But them should be whitelisted.
This approach provides Bitshares community a possibility to take part in the development process and do all job in most efficient way - both from costs perspective and from architectural one - graphene chains should become our main (and perfect) product made for export.
Bitshares as an entity should teach itself to hire devs, and to produce valuable products to stay competitive on the external markets not only in the fin-tech field.

PS:
The explained model is only one possibility and is actually my current case.
It is clearly understood that this approach could be extended to an ecosystem funded projects without "external" or "dedicated" investors (customers) but natively being a Bitshares projects grown from the community ideas and input.