How to turn self-employment into employment? 
jamesbritt: Not sure if this will translate to your situation, but I eventually figured out that resumes need to show I created specific tangible benefits to whomever was my employer at the time.  For example, rather than say "Have 5 years of Blub", I'd was better off saying, "Wrote code in Blub that reduced transaction processing time, resulting in greater sales of foo."Are there things in your experience that demonstrate the ability to add value (even if the overall project failed)?Brought a product to market?  Improved overall development time?   Unless you're applying for some grunt cog coder job, I think  (or hope, at least) that showing you are capable of producing value under pressure would be of most interest.Whoever hires you can teach you the stuff you don't know.