The developers need to be present!
Look at other projects like eg. MAID - the developers are all over their forum informing and helping out, and that shows the crowd that they are serious and dedicated!
Every dev has his strategy. Wait and you will see.
Oh Buterin's strategy worked alright. He did pretty well for himself if you ask me.
Did he earn a few hundred thousand dollars for a year' work.
Exactly. I could be speculating here but him and his group could have bought large allocations of ETH from the presale and were the ones dumping at the beginning.
All in all, not a bad strategy.