Very good post about why a dedicated and qualified committee is important for any crypto success, based on NXT example:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=528023.msg7245897#msg7245897
While it probably obvious to most of the participants here, I still recommend giving a look.

I also will not repeat the same mistake BCNext did: he abandoned his creation to an idealistic vision of completely distributed and "headless" development. It was sad to see great ideas of NXT disintegrate like this. Instead, the source code will remain closed until my vision is implemented exactly as I planned it to be. I might be wrong in some decisions, but at least I will be coherent.