Sounds stupid honestly but still makes sense a bit, you wi be paying pennies for huge amount of coins, since the money you will spend on the shit coins cos they are shitcoins will be penny then it's worth the risk, I knew someone who buy 20$ of WPP and it worths 2200$ weeks ago, amazing isn't it? Since you know what you getting into it's good for you.
Congrats to your friend, that is an amazing result.
Maybe the question should be then, what to look at for? As I mentioned, i'd like to still see the team active and it wouldn't hurt to be list on an exchange (small or large) - what would people suggest?
1) Team active
2) Exchange listing
3) (suggest others)