[avfletch]

$30,000 doesn't seem like sufficient funding for this venture, especially if you are paying your alpha-geek $80 an hour.

How many hours a week would you expect him to be working?

If he works full time on this project at $80 an hour then he'll receive $12,800 in the first four weeks (or nearly half the funding). You need to pay the rest of the team and yourself out of the remaining money and I believe the idea is that only 25% of the investment is sunk within that first month.

Am I missing something here?

Fletch