YES, have same thoughts. The altcoins maker/cloner (not developer) use bla..bla.. concepts with small designs to interact with people, so they interest and will mine/mint or even buy their IPO/ICO.

(imho, read here and there..) the DAO, can be good for people or any start-up team, but on other hand, it might born more scammers or ponzi program. I love Ether! I tried to mine it from one of cloud mining,

I see.. One question, could you show me the easiest and best reference about the DAO (or token?) Seems hot, but it's not clear understand how it works compare to common altcoins.

Long term might good, personally I prefer for long term and valuable. Anyway, why would have some percentages from those coins? Might you have some to explain from your speculate vision that Cryptonote

How much budgets to cover for build another alt-coin? I'm just thinking might be for another option.