Ask HN: Starting an Agency and Finding Projects

For a variety of reasons not communicated to us, last month our small, agile team got dissolved and the project moved abroad. As the synergy that we have developed over the 2-3 takes a lot of time to build and that such team is more than the sum of its individual talents, we decided to start a small agency, but we have no experience finding projects. Can you please share your experience in finding contract work? Big thanks in advance!