2. The donations fund is about 450K AEON. At current market prices (which are very volatile), that's about 135 000 USD, assuming it could all be sold without crashing the market, which is unlikely. Can you pay a development team for that? No (well at least not for long). Can you pay bounties for some work? Yes, and we have done so for various things like mining and pool software. (Also offered for web site development but that was done for free.) I'm happy to offer more bounties if people step forward to do work. Failing that I'm happy to continue holding the coins in case they become worth enough to actually fund a good development effort. Will that ever happen? Who knows.
If you have the donations fund you don't need pay a development team.
Try to negotiate with exchanges, HITBTC will list AEON for sure if you are willing to pay.
But if you can list AEON at big exchange like KRAKEN and trade it not for BTC only but for EUR/USD as well - it will promote the coin much better than any development team.