You're right, but for that you need investors (whales) and A LOT of patience. After that your chances for success are like 3-5%, because nowadays most of the whales are into coins which gives them 50-150% profit (for example) in a matter of hours. To be dedicated to one project is not enough. Look at SFR for example. Dedicated team, a lot of features, good ideas about coin's future, but.... look at the price. I am huge investor there though, because I believe in it's future. Now compare SFR with coins like CANN. Coin with x5 more supply which reached x3-x4 times the highest price of SFR. And for what? Of course that it was pump and dump coin, but whales did their profit and just move to another one.

P.S. Armis, I am EMC2 supporter since it was launched and although I sold some coins on exchanges, I stil hold 1.7M+ EMC2 and not planning selling them in near future. However, the same applies to EBT, but the main difference here is that EBT is plain dead...
P.S.2. I am part of another coin which is called FAILCoin. It seems dead, it is highly possible to die, but guess what? I don't care! After exactly 5 hours I am on meeting (in person) with 3 coders which may be involved in it and I hope that we will reach to agreement. I talked with 15+ coders for FAIL and I did understand that some of them launched 10s of coins and have wallets with hundreds and thousands BTC. Others (like defaced for example - dev of Franko and ADN (I also remember that Franko team helped EBT at the beginning)) don't have such amounts, because they are honest. As long as a coin has devoted members there are chances for some success, but EBT don't have them.