There have been several ways discovered to fund a project or to earn STEEM on the Steem blockchain.

You are absolutely right on this, to earn steem one needed to venture into many activities such as making good post through writing meaning content, making a good comments and make dtube and dlive just like have said.

You need to have STEEMPOWER or have access to someone who has it to be 'successful' on the STEEM blockchain.

This is the most important accept of it, having steemPower is the father of all the process through investment or getting people to delegate to you whatever through community help or personal people who are more interested in helping.

Your opinion and observation is absolutely right. You are really a good witness we deserve on here.