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We all know that before investing we try to see the whitepaper, the team, the website quality, the idea, the social presence..

but in the end of the day, what makes you want to invest in a project?

What is the ticking edge for you?



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1. Jurisdiction. The company should be registered and the address should be provided for public.
2. Team. It should consists of suitable people and it size should be real to make that they claim.
3. Whitepaper. It should be correctly written and everything should be described in details.
4. Hard Cap. It should suit to the scale of project. It could even absent due to the size, ambitious and confidence of the project.

I think after you gather up all that information it really just comes to whether you think the idea is plausible or not. If you think it can work and will be marketed well then go for

it. If you dont think the project will succeed then you best not touch no matter the hype or the terms. Because end of the day if you dont believe in a project, it will be hard to

stomach some of those sick crypto swings  :P

Team, advisors, early invevstors, token utility...

I hear people check the team and advisors, but you just can't know everybody in the industry. Who knows the advisor's and their team? I would guess not a lot of people.

Am looking for the hype.. If the telegram is well preserved, with many members.
Also I am looking to see how many posts they are on bitcointalk regarding the ICO.
The number of the supporters and the level they take it.
News posts influence me a lot. If I see forbes, is a good sign. I imagine is very expensive to get into Forbes.

 Project base, Idea, team and which type of market the project belong to and I usually prefer such projects which are based of highly valuable assets like the recent project I invested in was real-estate blockchain project (ATLANT) which gives an indication that the project will be a huge success in future.

There's another reason why people makes invest on an ICOs is for getting fast profit. Because participating in ICO there will be a percentage of bonuses on a particular week or day. It's around 40%-50% some even give 100% bonus. Nahh, when ICOs end the exchange place will release and sell it.

Investors from all over the world want to get in on the ground floor, hoping to become a stakeholder in a startup that could turn out to be the next Google or Facebook.

as we knew that this investment will give some instant earnings if we got in a right timing, people look for some chances to earn and they consider ico would be the good choice to invest their money, its like betting in a gambling platform where you aren't sure whether you will win or lose same deal with ico if project succeed you will earn if not then you will lose as well.

I believe that after you do your homework with the long due diligence list (i.e. team, WP....); you've to follow your own/gut feeling about that ICO/Idea......this kind of feeling should have been well developed from the study, monitoring & analysis of many other ICOs (especially the completed ones)
 

which makes me dare to invest in an ico is the clarity and legality of a project to be built,
let alone the team that entered in the project is very important

But we think that have more chances to win than casino people. And with deep investigation it is just like that. Learn more and read deeper - foundation of ICO invest. IMHO and it's work

Team, Advisor and most important,What ideas they carry, this is very important because almost all altcoin now only copy paste other project (Maybe)

Depends... if you invest (very) long-term you have to study the whitepaper and try to find out if there's a need for this idea. Not really easy though and some of the projects it's better to buy after the ICO for a lower price. You can also participate in ICOs if there's a lot of hype, wait for the first pump and sell. I think a lot of people are using this strategy. If it doesn't pump in the beginning you are sitting on coins you do not really like though.

And of course there are those ICOs like 0x, Kyber, OMG that are longterm projects but really profitable short-term also. If you find projects like those, it's a safe Investment.

Thanks for your way of thinking and your ideas.

I would guess that every person thinks differently, and what you are all saying makes sense.

Am surprise you mention Jurisdiction... I would guess that since we are trying to force the community to remain decentralised, why would be want a company registered with an address?

I would think that would make the project compromised, based on the upcoming laws that are bound to hit the industry.

project updates progress
team credibility
improvement in times

How can you evaluate team credibility?

For me the most ticking edge that drives me to invest on ICO's is it's profitability based on the roadmap and team. Most wouldn't really invest on ICO's if projects are not profitable at all and because of that many users look for the roadmap, team, and more to invest on new upcoming initial coin offerings. For the team criteria I evaluate team credibility by seeing how active the team is and their past achievements on other ICO's if they joined one.

I usually check their social media accounts, how active they are in their slack and telegram accounts. Whether they have a good road map and the goal should be plausible. I also watch their q&a, and see if the devs are professional in answering questions and delivering the their targets.

Yes, I believe investment in ICOs are highly profitable even if an ico is not very good. Project makers will try to pump the coin and that's the moment to sell everything. Yet I think that they are still too risky for an ico might not only end up being nothing good but even not become listed on any exchanger. Moreover, only rather big sums can be invested in icos (like $1k), if I'm not mistaken. And this makes it all even more risky.

At the moment, I invest only time in ICOs (ie: bounty campaigns). Of course, I need to check teams and guess % of ICO success since the risk to have no rewards is high.

the most of the people who comes towards ico's are in the greed to double their investment or triple it and sometime it happens but most of the time not. i think some of them were good too but most of them were scam and we have seen them but we have also seen some of the ico's doing really well and it is very good for the investors of it.
i think it usually depends upon the ico how it is looking and the type of team behind this. i think those ico's having trusted teams and looking good attract the users to follow it or invest in it..

Usually i try to read some particular reports such as real address of the ico and the age of their social media accounts.with previous activity.
If i find them most active on social media and very supportive on issues asked, also if they look a number of people making arrangements for their success with effort,i would be willing to invest in the ico.

Ensure that they are solving a problem or will disrupt an existing business/industry.

Ensure that they can develop software, by enabling you to run or use software that they've already built.

Building software takes much more skill, time and work than any other aspect on the ICO.

First of all, Technology. I think It's the key issue. Also White Paper and development team is very important. I have joined my first bounty campaing in Swarm.fund and I have looked them. They have amazing development team and I liked their technology. I think they may be very succesfull in near future.

If someone held my family hostage and said they'd kill everyone if I don't invest in an ICO, I might consider it.

You do hate ICO,eh? but you do really have a point on which most of them do failed and comes worst it ends on becoming a scam which would really be a result on wasting up money but talking on what are the things that i do check first when i decide to invest on an ICO is their whitepaper which i do usually check because you can able to see on what are their aims and their plans on what they are trying to build or launch on here.

We all want to invest into an ICO project because the goal is to make a profit, that's all. Does anyone invest with the goal of not wanting to profit?

uniqeness & solution solving & meeting people needs

Technology, dev team and marketing must be at top level for me to invest money. Reading the white paper brings a lot of the needed information.

unique target venue and the dev behind the project, I think if the project got a different approach from its target supporters or target area of services
it will gather lots of attention and supports then after the dev are also trustable with huge knowledge about their projects,.

Since there are worries about scams, I try to make sure that the team is not based in one of the corrupt countries, as the risk of exaggerations and lies will increase:

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016

Nice point! indeed this makes sense.

You should check out this link quite interesting. It will give you a good idea to the points to take into account before investing in an ICO: https://cryptopotato.com/10-keys-evaluating-initial-coin-offering-ico-investments/

The interesting project proposal in ico is very important to me (including whitepaper and roadmap), after that, dev activity and even an attractive and responsive campaign manager will also get plus points. The most important factors are the people behind the project and how seriously their business grows in finding business partners. If ico Project only impresses prototypes from scratch and is only done by 1-3 people without advisor. then it will not be too interesting.

That's a good list, except I would change the ranking.

Depending on how willing and able a team is to exaggerate or be dishonest, they can make "Team Composition" seem better than it really is.  There are many projects that have stacked the team with many people that have little experience or skill related to cryptos, technology or the business that the project wants to enter.

Depending on how willing and able a team is to exaggerate or be dishonest, they can build more hype than others  Or, they can create fake users and therefore make the community seem more active than justified.

The following should be much more important:


Everyone is trying to launch an ICO, and they'll try to put anything and everything onto a blockchain.  Most ICOs' ideas do not need to be on a blockchain.  One ICO is trying to hook up locals with visitors to enhance the travel experience.  Really?  This is a joke.

The following can be misleading:


You'll never know if the code is original or copied.  You'll never know if the team can write software, unless they have software that you can run or use.  Never invest in an ICO that doesn't have software that you can run.  It takes way more skill, work and time to write software than to stack the team, answer questions, hype up the community, creating a video or even writing the white paper.

Nice post, which does make total sense.

If they are developing a system that does not require blockchain to work then it is pointless. So why are most ideas out of place.

Simple cause they are into the money and only the money.

I wonder which projects will be develop in the end.

As to the knowledge of the team, if a team gets huge funds it can buy the talents, am not worried about this.

ya thats why we invest in ico, we invest for profit. investing in ico means we expect high profit in long term process

Supply and demand.
Problem-Solution.
New concepts and idea's made possible by revolutionary technology.

For their promising words like they will guarantee that your money back. I read the details carefully, I start reading from the team, their experiences, position, achievements and rewards. Next details is the website quality if the informations are already there with a full and clear details. Lastly is being active inside the forum and outside of it.

I don't believe in decentralised Real-estate, you can only decentralise so much. Decentralising Real-estate means losing control over quality.
Just because they deal with high value assets doesn't mean they will be succesfull, I think that is a big misunderstanding.
Decentralising government doesn't really work either, you get republics. But then again every governmental structure has flaws. But we can work around that because we are flexible but when it comes to something like Real-Estate where there's no flexibility, there's just am I going to repaint it or not and based on your intention and duration of the hold this will result in yes or no and I think that is harmfull for the industry and consumers alike.
Also in the case of Atlant where you work in a democracy you will have to rely on fellow traders to know what is viable and what is not. And I simply would not trust my peer traders to have sound judgment on real estate, lawyers or anything like that. You need to be very familiar with laws, tax regulations etc for real estate to be profitable or have a good lawyer. For myself I can only really see these projects succeed when you would invest in historically valued buildings such as a castle, windmills, old governmental buildings. But then you'd still be stuck with the costs of renovating.


Blockchain tech is great, amazing and this the core of the revolution you can't tokenize every industry and you would not even want that because it would make a mess of the economy. Though tokenzation of some industry's can he highly beneficial.
But this is just my opinion ofcourse.


I also think some company's aren't directly scamming but are abusing the age of the tech and the ICO structure of fundraising. Wasting investors money and so on, something I haven't noticed attention going to a lot. I also notice there aren't any real marketing researches done, more like; I just lick my finger see what the wind does and follow that.

Everybody's abusing the system atm..
As to real marketing, most companies are startups, they would not be able to do much more than what we see today due to their low budget.

A team knowledge should not rely on just its programming skills. Would you buy an iphone, just because it can do many things?

People in our days want to see design, user friendliness, they want to feel they have some trendy.

If a projects has terrible design (website and whitepaper) I don't mind a simple whitepaper, but at least it has to follow the directional guidelines of a professional booklet.

That makes me tick. Also the token sale process and detailed explanation makes me feel more comfortable if is detailed and friendly explained.

Agreed because i have bought some tokens on ICO's and i was hesitant at first but thanks the the staff of this forum, they are the ones validating some shady ICOs. I have made some earnings during the release of coins of other ico during the early years and it was really comforting to sell tokens. As u said, upon just viewing there site, it could entail a lot of how the ICO would proceed in the following months.

Design may sell, but it is code that makes things go in the long run. You can have many polished turds and people may buy them, but they're still just turds. Trends come and go, good code sticks forever.

P.S. I'd rather get AIDS than buy an iphone.

the number of cultivated n that shows that many enthusiasts or investors are joining the project
and it is make me believe on this ico to invest. Just simple way to invest in ico

Mainly greed...  :D :D

This is one of a good point to invest in an ICO for those who invest or joined the project. Mainly the team project, the goal's project, the dev and the marketing thats makes me invest in an ICo. But ofcourse thorough research the whole project is an added to make a decision in investing in an ICO.

the thing is how do you know this information? is there a way to track investors that are joining?

Proof of concept. Have you seen their code? Has it been audited? What are they planning on doing after their ICO? What do they even do in the first place? There will always be ICOs that want to just sell you a token and that's the end of it, but the ones that are really worth it are the ones that actually make something. Look at DragonChain, IOTA, and Komodo, these are all making huge leaps tech and will undoubtedly be around for a very long time. Will they make you super rich immediately? Probably not, but they will pay off very well in the long term as the tech that they create becomes more widely implemented.

What i look for in a ICO / Pre-sale

- strong team - not just developers, but also a strong marketing team and a good CEO, bigger the team the better!
- solid whitepaper - Great concept, well written and explains what they are doing. Also realistic targets
- Good social media presence and connectivity - Shows they are interested in the investors and wanting to communicate
-Finite supply - Crunched numbers, made sure that they make sense


Usually i look into these things and then make a decision if i personally like the concept. No point investing if you have no interest at all.

The expected profits, the whitepaper and their roadmap, that are the most important things that makes me wonder if should i invest in that ICO or not, i dont like to invest in them, but sometimes they are too god and tentative, and it is like they are screaming "invest in here, please". Most of them invest too much money in marketing, and that is why a lot of them are succesfull.

Recently I see ICO's concentrating only on marketing.. everybody has forgotten to deliver a mock-up product, or something... Is normal i guess after all this hype.

I invest in a project during their ICO because i want to make profit from my investment. Although before i invest my capital into any project i make sure i study there white paper to know whether the project is worth investing or not before i put in my money.

Is the whitepaper good are the devs trustworthy just things like that...

Do they really need the money they asking for is important i think... to many uncapped ico's raising insane capital they don't need.

as developer works on manage with the best on competence to shows with the deliverance of service for the public audience
those gives of chance as future investors to gains of attention and grows with the following as extending use as
the decision to goes with the shift on stages as returns with the exchange to improves the limit of disputes as allocation to place of units of investment with the projects.

1. Trusted developers.
2. Good road map
3. White paper is realistic
4. There is something that they'll support for the usage of that coin
5. Long term plans
6. Good marketing

But those are all the thing that influnce an ICO trustworthiness. What makes you tick, what triggers the feeling that you have to take part in that ICO?

Maybe the last investment can help you understand what affected you.

These are my criterias:
* Team with industry insiders
* Hard cap of the token sale
* Future growth expectations
* Community (Twitter, Slack, Telegram)

I think we should see at the trust of the ICOs like things because in these days it is not a easy thing to invest in ICOs with blind eyes .
Here personally i invest in that coin which ICOs which have the better economical support ( example of HMQ coin ) .
Second factor that i analyse is experience of the team which is managing the coin and how much is active in the social media to make new new things creative .
White papers like things for me are not big thing to see because i don't think beside the profit we need to make much hard work to understand complicated things .
Just to understand the project and uniqueness in the project of ICOs system are better things to make yourself sure that you want to invest .
Here in the current time we can see that ICOs project are coming in less numbers , so it our need to invest in ICOs  .
Here investment in the coin is also like the investment in coin , so few people usually invest in every ICOs .

which makes me interested to invest in an ICO of course there are many things, and for example is an interesting concept.
then usually I when investing to see how pre sale is done whether the purchase is good or not.
if the pre sale process has not been answered then I wait at the end of ICO and see how it develops

You get to buy into a good company cheap at the very beginning stage. However, there is risk associated to it. Most ICOs are not good so please do your homework.

but investing in an ICO is certainly not easy because it has to look for a really good ICO because otherwise we will just lose money.
now choosing a good ICO is very difficult because in addition to many projects that are scam or just deceiving but also a lot of current projects.so maybe investors will be confused choosing so that will impact the shortage of funds needed for a project

ICO investment is a way to gain profit. Not easy, but we need to work hard to choose a potential project.
some ICOs appear and continue to grow each time. very confused to choose.
if one chooses then it is the biggest risk to invest.
See team and whitepaper before joining, at least we have tried to do our best.

How does someone know if there is a team that has the knowledge of the industry?

As for social presence am very influenced atleast the other day a telegram with great activity and support made me look into things deeper.

the only thing that i want to makes investing in an ico is i want to make bigger profit because i know if the ico is success in the roadmap then the coins will be worth. i can said this because i know one of my friend is investing in one ico and after the ico is over, he can make bigger profit than the bitcoin he invested so he can buy something with the money from the profit.

It's a good way to make a profit. And of course get services for lower price.

I totally agree with you! This is a really good comment.
I would add that it's not really easy to check out the software's code if you don't have IT skills. And as you said, the code may be wonderful but just copied/pasted.

As I said in another thread, ICOs are a way to get money so easily and there is such a keen interest in the blockchain that it's enough to say the magical word "decentralized" to attract investors. Even if the project is not innovative at all. Even if the blockchain is not needed.

I always look for true team some actual working product and backed by some good ventures if everything looks good and satisfying I will invest in Ico in presale after few days by seeing the transaction in contract address.

belief, read the whitepaper, see the concept, and see if the team is clear, because many projects are good concept, the team is clear but failed because of less investors ..

It seems to me that people in ICO was attracted by the opportunity to earn on speculation. If the creation of bitcoin, the idea was to create another world, ICO has become a pipeline for the production of the pyramids. Though of course they must exist as opposed to bitcoin.

I have never invest in ICO yes. But Id like to try one day

The number one reason that makes me invest in an ICO is the future of the project. If I am really convinced of the real purpose of the project, I mean not just in the letters of their whitepaper and their website, but how they would actually implement their entire vision in reality. The problem they want to address in real life is a very important issue for me in an ICO.

risking from something that they are really aiming to gain some wealth I'm also one of a type of a person which always looking for opportunity and if I got a closer look from some project I will also invest and wait till it will rise then just keep the drill of repeating again and again.

The jurisdiction : Not China, the team should be experienced and should comprise as many programmers and sales/business people as possible... The prospects of the project : blockchain should make sense for this project. distribution : most should be alocated to investors and miners, I don't see why the team should recieve so many tokens since they can already get payed alot with the funds collected, they should invest their own money and a little bit of tokens but not more than 10% of the total. Number of people investing... and a good part should be reserved for social media/influencer bounty even a good while after the ICO so the info spreads well... And of course invovation, scalability and incentive for adoption

If we feel satisfaction and guarante for investment then that's the time to invest. Most ICO's have a promotional discount at first and that is good because it will attract more investors, but always so research before making any transactions with them.

Firstly the most important aspect is if they coin / token makes sense. If the coin is not needed and they have simply added it to have the ability to raise an ICO, then eventually the project will collapse.

Once you have looked into this, the team, whitepaper and the number chunching to make sure it makes sense.

Lastly their marketing. Are they strong? communicating their concept and idea?

Once you have done your research you will know if it a worthy investment of your time and money.

I read the whitepaper, go through the list of people who are involved in it. Check if they are advertising it and if making payment on time without any hassles. What is the coin and its potential to grow in future, what is the company vision  and goals. Is the pricing of the coin reasonable then I do buy some token for the investment purpose.

That's what I care before I do any ICO investment.

• Team, advisors and their crypto history
• Early invevstors and their other ICO investments
• Hard cap

 buying cryptocurrency is risky, and ICOs are riskier still. And as with all active investments in general, it is wise to never commit more money than you can afford to lose.

Apart from Developing Team, White paper, concepts etc....I Think one should also

1. Token Distribution Dates. Take a keen look on Pre-ICO sale date and its response in the market.
2. Keep Following ANN thread and bounties that also give you an idea of its popularity in Crypto-market.
3. Evaluate the Stage of the project and VC investments.

At the end, Be caution and do research by yourself, Sometime Trolls, Memes, FUDers, and bagholders spread misinformation and lies about speculative investments

maybe there are many factors make me invest in ico, but only one will make me not, its the government ban, i missed many good projects and suffer a lot, i am just looking for a way to invest in ico again

Team, Courtesy, Relevancy between Effort and Gain, And Requierements when you / i join the investment.

Yes trustworthiness is what an investor get into in an ICO. Maybe you can try to read again what I said because it's clear that it's on my number 1 list. When they have trusted developers the project will be trustworthy because those devs are experience to run a good project and ICO. They are not just crowdfunding and will runaway after funding that project by many investors.

Investing in ICO for me is a way of growing my btc, because ican make significant profit. With adequate analysis from altcoin ICO before investing. Big profits convincing to achieve. Many times i get big profit from ICO coin.

Yep!

As Vitalik Buterin says :

"it would be a mistake to underestimate the value of ICOs or to say that they are a bad thing. ICOs are interesting because they enable monetization for open source projects...what we are seeing lately is that people are taking this idea too far, and there are projects that issue a coin not because it makes sense to issue a coin but because they have a product they can sell and raise money. Without a coin there is no business model. This creates the imbalance of incentives in the community at the moment. [] Additionally, this market is still young and people still don't know how to differentiate between projects that will exist in the long term and those that won't."

I consider that the reasonable ICO potential based and evaluated on the white paper and other physical materials is the thing to start making the investments into.

as the message delivering the details on strategics as investors to gains with understanding with the point of cues on objection,
the further that investors to work as displacing limit on funds as epecting use of returns as applying details with strategics to close on target completion
within the distinct on times or price with the value as finishing to turns with thehigher stages of following compliance.

I use the same instinct one uses in any business relationship. Does the entity have a track record? Beyond the white paper, does the vision address a true need? I tend to follow those who can show use cases. The new dragonchain announcements have me excited right now https://t.me/dragontalk

yes in general everyone should always see it. if we believe that ICO has a good prospect in the future it will start investing.

Yes, we must make evaluation about the icos projects based on the fundamental aspects before we make investment into the icos projects, personality i made evaluation about the icos projects based on the function of ico in the future, the comunity of the projects will use the coins in the future, how long the developer of coins on the business and the maximal numbers supply of coins will be created by development team of coins.

A lot of people are looking to the instant profit after the token already listed in the exchange site that means they will dump it again. Because not a lot of people are wanna seeing from the technology aspect

There are a few factors I will look at.

I will analyse the idea, promises and realistic targets. From these, I decide whether I want to invest in the ICO.

there are many reasons, but for me investment in ICO is one of dealing with a more planned future

Well investing in an ICO is high risk, high reward so people do it to find the next bitcoin, imagine if you managed to buy 1000 of the next bitcoin at the start of it's inception?

What I personally look for in an ICO is to see how robust it is. I check out the team, whitepaper, the concept, their website, their social media and research what people have been saying about them in general.

One that I am liking right now is Crowdholding, they matched all my criteria and their ICO is starting on the 1st of November.

https://ico.crowdholding.com

Hope this helps!

In addition with this, is that the manager handling this certain ICO is known and have a good carrier records in cryptocurrencies. Because some investors are  very choosy and they are also seeking ICOs that could give them satisfaction in return with their investment.

What makes me invest in ICO is because I have money. And the other factor is the mission vision and their promising team for the future of the Coin.

Well investing in an ICO is hard decision to make because if you check ICO ann pages they are claiming that they have the best project best team etc ever. We know that’s not possible so i try to avoid ICOs which are showing off a lot. What attracts me is the realistic ICOs with a good doable project. If I see a project like this i jump on it.

For me, ICO is a good long term investment knowing that eth and other altcoin start from being ICO. The tokens starts from about $0.1 and can grew upto $100/coin for about a year or two and now thats promising for me. To know if the tokens will have a value in the future a read their white paper, I also know their market and what this token can do that will make it in demand just like in the case of bitcoin. Ofcourse this type of investment is risky but I see it, it is really rewarding after you gain from it.

thats right, i think look for ico who has a project and a realistic idea to doable, for example CarTaxi they have a project to help driver problems, when you are have problems with your car like a strike, then you can open CarTaxi and ask for help to towing your car, I think it's realistic project to do

To some extent, I give some preference to projects based on an existing business (unless some real blockchain use case). I also like ICO who raises money for countries suffering from foreign currency shortage. I have a feeling that those countries will let cryptocurrencies prosper

With ICO's the earning possibilities were high and I give importance as an short term investment. With ICO's we get a better discount on earlier investment. While the token gets listed to the exchanges, what we got as discount itself will get valued big. Very few ICO's go as scams due to the failure of the developers.

1st : Team behind the scene
2nd: Project or Idea
3rd: Whitepaper
4th: What kind of business approach. is actually invest with future ?
5th: Website and social m
i think this is the most important.

Along with things such as the quality, effort and business planning that has gone in to an ICO, but also the credibility, transparancy and overall ability to create change from their new concept is vital to a successful ICO. It is becoming increasingly common for new ICO's to be appearing from all backgrounds now - and that isn't a bad thing at all. It is however important to treat any potential investors with the respect they deserve. Afterwall, trying to make "quick money" is something that ICO's will become less known for towards the end of 2017 and into 2018 - as the quality, standards and concepts become more thought through.

Of  course first the team because they are the one who put life into the project or they are the mind, heart and soul of the particular project. Second, it's website tells us all about them because all of the information we need to research like, whitepaper, roadmap, dev team and it's mission and vision is displayed on their page. Third, the availability or visibility of the whole project and team on social media or streaming sites. An example for this project is SPECTRE.ai it has all of the characteristics that I am looking for in an ICO. I can clearly see that this project is a success because it is promising. It also has a unique project idea that is eyeing to help traders from greedy brokers.

The most important thing is proof that the team can develop an app.

All of the other stuff can be lies or easily faked.

Upon learning about the ico's details, the devs, whitpaper, and everything about it, one of the things that somehow make me lean on investing in the said ico is when i see potential for a long term investment and whether the project is realistic or not; like we can practically use it almost everyday.

It is for the sake and chance of having a good profit early investors will profit big if they are the ones who vested early on ICO's, but most of all investors look for what would cope their interests and what would fill their capacities to do and bet on the ico

For investing, I look for a team with serious founding experience and strong technical skills, combined with a large market and little competition.

Idea, proof of concept, team, founders, backers, and coverage. My 6 pillars of belief when it comes to ICO's. For example, the Founder of Civic has a solid background.

The recent example of my pillars are UnikoinGold. Solid idea, vision, and team. Proof of concept is already there and backers are even more incredible. Read into them.

The concept of the project is interesting and different than the others
Management team has experience and expertise in the field
The product is needed and has a larga market share

Even though if the concept, team and everything is good, sometimes the ICO goes as a scam. This happens during the lack of funding and when the developer team doesn't get fixed to the schedule and work accordingly giving more trust to the entire investors of the project.

I am always doing investigating about company or registered organisation for the Ico and proven track record or previous projects .Then I will look into team and their LinkedIn profile preferably and also I will look for escro and the most important solution providing by particular project how much scope is having for the particular solution . Till now I got some good profit from some proven dice Ico. there is one more team domraider doing good recent ico.

exactly!  this is the main reason why many people are keeps on investing on an ico. but not all ico are legit and there are hundreds and thousands of them poping like a mushroom and keeps on scamming people thats why its hard to spot a real and promising ico these days. id rather invest on something like in bitcoins or altcoins than putting my money unto something risky.

Its all about helping a good company raise fund to startup, then getting in early to make a substantial profit in the future.

Potential for huge profits of course! Despite the huge risks, such investments can give you huge profit.

of course to make money for a long term but if I can sell it in short time and I can make big profit then I will sell it. but the most reason is because I want to trying to be bagholder from the tokens. I know its difficult and tempting especially if the price is suddenly gets increase in the market but I am trying so hard. at least if I want to sell, I am selling in small amount to take profit and I still keep the rest of the tokens. its good to be investor in the ICO but we need to know the details of each ico so we don't get trap in the market.

the roadmap, the future investment, and sometimes the idea of creator is a brilliant.
for me invest at ico is a unique way, we dont know the developer will do it or not, but sometimes we need more than 2year to gget big revenue like ethereum.

This time a lot of people are seeing the icos as the place to trade their money for huge profit, because after the token already listed in the exchange site and there will be a short pump at the early start.

First I check out the project. If I like the idea and think they have a shot at becoming big, I check out their website and try to find more info on slak (that's also a way of finding out whether the ICO is a scam or not). Then I try to find out how popular the project is. if everything fits, i buy!

What can really help you is the list we gathered in the threat below:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2235968.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2235968.0)

I usually invest into something that interests me (sector wise) so right now I am very excited by co-creation and redistribution of wealth.

When i find a project, I look for failures in the startup. So this entails:-

- Looking into the team behind the altcoin (developers, CEO's, marketing, finance etc and their experience)

- The white paper needs to make sense, be full of information and no skimp on numbers, concepts, data, how they plan to achieve their desired outcome etc.

- The overall concept. If they need an altcoin or not. If they are only doing this for an ICO, stay clear.

- Their social media and connection to the potential investors. If they are creating their own content, not just buying articles and not focusing on growing a community. If I go onto their bitcointalk thread, do i get to communicate with them and do they reply to my questions.

Once these have been checked, I have a think and then decide to go forward, not bother or if i am in the middle, get involved in a bounty campaign to see how they operate.

I hear individuals check the group and counselors, however you can't know everyone in the business. Who knows the consultant's and their group? I would figure not many people. I'm searching for the buildup.. In the event that the message is very much safeguarded, with numerous individuals. Additionally I am hoping to perceive what number of posts they are on Bitcointalk with respect to the ICO. The quantity of the supporters and the level they take it. News posts impact me a great deal. In the event that I see Forbes, is a decent sign. I envision is extremely costly to get into Forbes.

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I'm always invest in projects which look like game changers. I hate to wasting time in queues at markets, bureaucracy offices and so on. I hope some of such kind of projects will make world more convenient and efficient. Also I like projects with interesting concept like Cindicator or Swarm.Fund.

nvestment in ico is easy safe and profitable so very good if we are in ico.

mostly the idea. then comes the team behind it and legal side 

Dude, you can make so much money on Ethereum right now. Whales and devs are collecting Ethereum so they can get Rich.

I invest in perspective projects for saving and collect coins

ICOs for earn money, bitcoin for the future

I love to see how excited people are.
So when I look into a new coin I want to see the hype that many of then wants to invest early or cant wait for the bounties to add more for their investment.
It includes the social media when many wants to share it and they are also lookig for a way to make it bloom all the way.

I will see their project and their earnings during pre ico, if indeed their income soared, then I will participate in the ico to buy their coin. and I also see the price of their coins for exchange to ETH or BTC

The skills to take huge risk losing money due to invested in the ICOs, it is final to decision to invest in the ICOs or not in my mind, many investors blamed the ICOs are scam due to they can not calculated the risk losing money investment in the ICOs, and I always made investment on many projects ICOs, it's set the minimal risk losing than all in one ICOs but everyone has method for anticipate it when investing in the ICOs. at least that's my way.

I will look at their team, whitepaper, advisors and what kind of partnerships they have. A lot of hype can be built around the reputation of those involved and can carry it much higher. More importantly I try to stick to projects which I believe in what they are trying to achieve, it's good to hold some coins long term.

Check out the team, whitepaper and especially the early adopters ready to use the trading exchange platform:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2367245

Risk will always be there but at last you just have to see that the idea will be feasible or not. Is it solving any major problem of human being or not. If the idea is unique and is solving some problem which has not been solved by any other project then it will be less risky to invest in that ICO.

Most of the reasons, investors use their money invest in ico projects in order to earn money from it, the tokens will soon on the market and turn into coin, its value may rise and bring huge profits depends on how applicantions that project can apply, and br accepted by investors.

The number one thing I look for when investing is if it grabs my attention. Generally when an ICO and their plan really interests me I want to make an investment. An example of this is Propthereum.io. They are an asset backed cryptocurrency on the blockchain. All proceeds raised will be used to purchase A-grade property worldwide. This will generate a rental income and underlying value for the PTC token holder. The great thing about this concept is that the coin will always increase in value.

The chance that was been offered to me last 2011 when I read an article about Bitcoin. I was interested but due to lack of paypal amount or dollar account that's the reason why I didn't get some Bitcoin that moment. Now, although Bitcoin is very expensive the only chance we have is to invest in ICOs. These Altcoins has the potential to be the next Bitcoin in the near future.

ICO's provides with a good earning access. Till date very few ico has gone as a scam, based on which profiting is somehow an assured fact. Till the particular token getting listed to the exchanges, people have a fear and then it's upon the users responsibility to use it at the right time trading with the available pairs and earn the best possible.

Conducting market research of that certain project , I'll be able to learn about that certain company more;I'ts my deciding factor if it will turn positive. Also realistic project with real world implementation, I want fast ROI  . I don't want to invest in a project that will take 3-5 years to grow with no assurance of the outcome. That's why I prefer ICO with already functioning app or project. Also, the team behind that certain project really matters , their background and reputation.

why I invest in ICO because I know and believe that the project has a good future and a solid team. so that I immediately invested in the project.

Its just about doing your due diligence and looking at it through the lens of how institutional investors review traditional startups. Solving a problem? Is it a solution? Niche? Good team? Good advisors? product? sweat equity? own equity? bootstrapping? etc. Doing this will allow you to cut out 95% of the shit. From then on you just need to see what the ICO's (post crowdsale) burn rate will be and if the founders are competent.

Legal Entity with address, Jurisdiction, Founder (True Linkedin Profiles), Team (to have the background to develop the Product, Whitepaper (to be able something that needs the Blockchain technology, otherwise what's the point for the ICO), Hard Cap (to prove they need these funds to develop the Product), backup plan (In case they reach less, to be able to develop something at least)

Hi ma dude,

Everyone's posting the same stuff i would like to post (team, wp etc.) but i won't. I will try to boil down my thoughts when investing in ICOs:

Basically, after putting check marks on all of the above research it all comes down to the idea. When you think about their ideas, does it take you more then a couple of minutes to comprehend their idea, and if it doesn't, is the idea GOOD? If you need to think more than 5 minutes about their basic vision/idea then it's either a very complicated idea that is going to be extremely hard to fulfil OR it is a scam. If you understand the idea, think if it is realistic/good in your mindset. For example: can their token be used as utility for something else(a good example is BitDegree utility token)? A token will have a MUCH higher chance of succeeding if it is going to be a utility and not a security.

I could go on and on feel free to message me if you are interested in having a chat about ICO's.

Good luck ma man.

Things that makes me invest in an ICO in the first glance is how they plan and present their ICO for public and how it can simply compete with other ICO existing. The administration itself can be a basis and a reflection from these traits on how the present and how they provide strong foundation in the project.

Their plans are attractive at the first time that you'll check the but if you'll try to study most of them aren't accurate, there are real projects but not all of them are good for investing.

Some are good in their marketing but when it comes to their road map, many are not following what's on their plan.

What makes me invest to an ICO is on who are the developers of it and on how many people did see good future on that ICO.

I invest in ICO, as I believe it is profitable, since the possibility that the price of the token will grow as soon as it hits the stock exchange is very high!

but you must be very knowledgeable in order to find quality project because not all ico offer good returned its the best way to grow btc but its also
have a big risk to take its needed a lots of research and product knowledge, well investment should be taking care very well as its our money that
in risk after all.

The chance of project generating revenue at some point.

For investing in an ICO i care about the quality of the project and team.
If a project and its team is smart, they will have a chance to get real success.

Yes you are right, team is important. I was checking the team of trade.io (https://trade.io/team?lang=en) the new ICO and they seem very strong.

success, dividends, large coin growth

For me, ICO is a good long term investment knowing that eth and other altcoin start from being ICO. The tokens starts from about $0.1 and can grew upto $100/coin for about a year or two and now thats promising for me. To know if the tokens will have a value in the future a read their white paper, I also know their market and what this token can do that will make it in demand just like in the case of bitcoin. Ofcourse this type of investment is risky but I see it, it is really rewarding after you gain from it.

I think there needs to be a change and an ICO actually should have a working product that people can play with and see it's limitations. Of course the team, the whitepaper, the transparency and the ideology all need to be there as well.

Personally I am looking into Crowdholding as they match all the items above.

https://ico.crowdholding.com

I join in ICO because I want to have some long term investment, I know there is high risks there, and the reward Maybe high or zero.

Yep some of them have actually good project so its better to check their ico fully and search about their team if you do that you will surely know if that coin will be succesful or not.

I have invested in a ICO but i lost all of my money so be alert.

For all this is a way to quickly raise money on the project and everyone decides for themselves where to invest

The prospect of cryptocurrency adoption and more uses for blockchain is my motivating factor. The more we find usage for tokens and coin, the more we move closer to adoption.

Well , right now it's gold rush and we have to take an advantage of it, cos it will not last long.
May be another year or so. That kind of things happend once in a life time

A good whitepaper,decent product and a short-long term plans,developers behind the ICOs and their investors.

We should really be careful on selecting ICO because this would really be just a gamble if you just carelessly choose of the project without any knowledge or any research that has been made then you are just like blindly selecting and if you do try to see all of the ICO been launching as of now you would really have a hard time on selecting them because most of them would really fail and only a few would become success. The things that make me invest in an ICo when i do see that it has a real life usage and already a working product .

Advisers and jurisdiction. Plan and team is also important and if I can vision a future for the idea then I will invest

 I don't think that advisers has anything to do with future of the product. Mostly they there cos it's hard for
people to underrstant what's this all about so they invest in some sort of recognizable or well known person. Why
 do you think jurisdiction matters? 99% of them is  offshore companys.