The team got +$12million ICO and a few million in other currency three months ago.
Now developing progress increases every week.
Take a look at ethereum. A different project, but there is a some kind of a price singularity. Compare the two if you like. Positive market for ethereum equals a positive market for Lisk. (and the other way arround).
Lisk is about to become become functional in a few months.
It could be very wise to have some Lisk before that happens. What if Lisk goes to $1 in the future?
I remember my Ethereum @ICO price. Some sold early, because a lot of people told FUD. Same situation as it is now in the Lisk thread.
Lisk is not ETH. Lisk is like Steem or one of 2014' Kitty-like-coin or Crypti.
Don't even try to fool people that there's some similarity between Lisk and ETH price/charts now. This is 100% wrong. 100% another direction of price action.
Look at daily charts of first 10 month of ETH and Lisk:
And ETH overall: