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I am wondering what you all believe what makes an ICO interesting and successful in the end?

The coommunity and the hype meter of the project itself, because that will be represent about the demand and interest to participate in the ico. You should remember about the fact that many icos already done  better return to the investors.

To make an ICO successful, it must be unique and must solve problems that other projects have not yet done before also the project must be well documented. The team and developers should be industrious and always open to criticisms. And lastly hire some people to promote the project, In that way lots of people will support and invest to their project

Many thing!
The Concept, The Team, The Progress, The Marketing of course and the most important thing, it is not a scam  ;D

good team and good coder, everything and successful story will follow. you can pump, hype and marketing all you want but if nothing to offer then investors will know soon or later and will start to dump. we all call it pump and dump or simply scam, successful ico = good coder.

In my opinion, there should be 3 main points:

1. Interesting idea to the target market
2. Good marketing
3. Active development team with fresh ideas.

The altcoin market is flooded with coins that don't actually do anything and just here to make money. These three points are what sets apart good projects from bad projects.

I strongly agree with this! Aside from those three, I think that a very achievable roadmap is also a factor to consider. There are ICOs with good marketing strategies but when you look at their roadmap, it seems very far from reality. Another thing is that the developer should not just be active but also to be trustworthy. Look at the achievements of the developers in their own field.

Factors that make ICO success must be an interesting project. Next, Advertising about ICO is certainly very important and should be wide reach. As with Social media, big websites, and Video.

From a devs' standpoint: enough retards throwing money at their screens waiting to pay for another pull on the ICO scam/slotmachine.
From gamblers' standpoint: lol, who are you kidding?

They must be real what I mean they should give a real project that will support a lifetime with what they are doing. Transparency and interest for long term goals, investors nowadays are wise. If they can see that the project has plans of making a long term plan and you are applying it showing some progress with those plans, they'll support you. But if you just really want to collect fund and capital, they'll also ride with your project for money making only.

It needs a good and clear white paper and roadmap.

The ICO should be unique, it should be able to present products that are new and ideas that are innovative and modern. It should also have a good background and people behind should the skills and talent to push the project out to the world and be able to gain supporters from it. The project should also present a way to solve latest issues and be able to give aid to human life. Having a good team, unique project, and a lot of supporters can help an ICO be successful.

ICO is useless if the coin or the product itself screams scam. To be able to have a successful ICO you nedd to launch a solid plan to get a community interested in investing. Promotion is also really important beacause you gain more attention with it.

In my opinion, first of all - great and unique idea and of course which will give you something that will useful in future .
Than good marketing and advertising.
And also a good, diligent team of course. 
And some luck in the end %)

and this main points was said before, so I think that is the key points.

Moreover good project must provide the demand. Why people should use exactly this token but not another? Why ICO participants will not want just sell all their tokens after listing at exchanges?

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Lots of things can contribute to the success of an ICO;
- Team behind the project and their concept.
- Marketing strategy they will have.
- Community manager, bounty and social media manager they will hire
- If they will have some working example or bet platform than that will increase investors confidence on the ICO.

the project itself if specific target venue are reliable and really gather the uses and needs of people, i think we should be more wiser now before investing with any ico project knowing the target audience and why  people will use the system is very important aside from the team behind and the plan roadmap.

First of all they need the right product. The idea and concept trumps everything, then they need a solid team behind the project. A lot of investors invest based only on the team backing the project, marketing is also very important.

The question is not correct. The the issuing company or project that makes an ICO successful. Yeah, making people fool also helps but not always.

For me there are many things to be considered for an ICO to be successful. The project is good, well organized, and planned well for the team marketing to attract more investors. It should be plan ahead of time of whats the project objectives in order it to be successful.

Honestly in the end it is the team and the concept behind the ICO.

A company that raises millions with a very poor team and a weak concept will fall at some point.

Hype and marketing help get there though.

the business model, idea, team. and good marketing :)

I think all can happen, if their project is good then it will be successful, But if bad they will probably be a scam. but not all projects also I think. we can not guess whether a project will work, we have to look carefully at the project to be invested

Almost all ICOs have deep blockchain-technology in their product as part of the ICO Whitepaper.

How important is that to you?

I.e. Would an ICO be interesting if the blockchain-tech part is there, but not as "revolutionary" as it is with other ICOs; yet the business case for the company running the ICO is rock solid?

I think ICO should have the commitment and dedication to keep doing it as well as possible. Not just imitating the various existing ICO. But it must also provide something definite and must be developed continuously. ICO should not be careless let alone name it with a strange name. Better to name it with a good name and easy to remember.

I often see an ICO that shares many similarities with other ICOs. ICO should not only tell people to invest, but to provide job opportunities. If only an ICO could hire people and give permanent jobs, the ICO would do well.

ICO need to have a nice and useful idea, good team, well-planed project and real base for project implementation

I'm wondering: the strong development team, the unique and reliable idea, normal token price)

Successful, it is a reward through ICO's project that we works better. We need to solve all project with our good and solid members also the founders who manage and trust with them. We will need a good strategy in marketing and advertising to persons who want to pick our products. We must able to hire the best person who manage of our projects to become a successful ICO's. And we need to invite and accept more members to generally known of our product.

according to my opinion, very interesting practical ROAD MAP is very essential for successful ICO.and the project must be a thing that will help for the people.in fact for the every person in the world.the project MUST target on every human live in this planet.then the people focus on the project more and lot of investment can gather to the project.and also i think ATTRACTIVE name also a important point for successful ICO.

You should have some point that are significant for you in choosing ICO. About Idea i think you should have to things in your mined - Are people need this idea? Do I understand it? If you have two YES, goes to list how to understand that ICO isn't a Scam. my list - Team and it background, Timeline of projects a clearly and easily to understand, Have partnership with fonds or organizations, in WP there is information abt amount of money to each stage, Good support in social media, and good customer service in official resources. Due to this reasons I choose Confideal and waiting for start their ICO

It needs a good idea, plenty of hype and a strong team behind it. Most ICO's will fail as the idea just isn't there or they don't have enough hype!

Aside from what has been previously mentioned. I think if the team behind a given ICO have an open and active channel to answer questions to regular users; it would make them stand out.

With dev team have experience and advisers include celebrity will generate a successful project

If they have capital ang have a good project execution I think more likely it will be a success , many ICO's has depending too much on token not spending a single money for their promotion , That's why I trust more those ICO who put a lot of money in promoting it makes them more realistic and serious to their projecte

Doesn't have much knowledge about the ICO projects. But from words of mouth understood that an ico project becomes successful when it gets backed up by good developer team as well with the good funding team. Lot many projects go out as a scam with the lacking of funds.

One of the most important factor for me to determine an ICO to be successful or not is based on the dev team or advisory team.
When i look at OMG, i was awared that Vitalik which is the cofounder of eth act as an advisor for the team. Vitalik is young when started eth but through time, he has proven the world that he can be one of the top developer. Other factors like existing business model and existing strong customer base are also important.

I should always understand the main idea of projects. As i know sometimes could be a demo version of product before ICO, and it is a very good indicator of promising projects. I like confideal the most, because can understand it and try by my own hands.

To answer this one ICO would really be successful if theres really a good community support because of having really a good potential project.If community would saw this thing is beneficial and really good for long term this mot likely this kind of project succeed on their crowdfunding but yet this would also need a good marketing strategy to expose more about the project because it would be somehow useless if it wont really be scattered properly about on its existence.

has a good purpose for ico members, so every member of ico always works well, and good advertising marketing, so it can make people want to join to invest into the ico.

Before, just the word ICO would be enough. Now however it needs to gave a good product, team, roadmap, and the usual flashy website

It's important to remember that ICO's might be a beginning, but the real hardship starts after the ICO is over. You've sold. You've promised and now in order to grow this crypto world you need to DELIVER. Delivery is really important, it will be really sad when many ICO's just do not deliver a product/service. Trouble is even if you have a great team, sometimes things don't work out. Look at Tezos.

Great article about token sale models from Vitalik.
http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/06/09/sales.html

For ICO's successful, it must be realistic.
It organized and the infrastructure of the project must be robust.
ICO's investors are targeted for the future.

Great article. He really wishes to be a fair and balanced approach. However, the "chipping away" he discusses can only be done if the organization has the users and ethics in mind. If they do not, there is no way to keep them putting their own interests first. Hence, success is a double edged sword. ICO's dont always raise money and succeed. In a year or so, we will see which of them were honest and which were just trying to get a bunch of money and run.

For successfull ICO the first main thing is the idea behind the project. That how the project is useful. If it is solving a major problem that has not been solved by anyone else then it will more likely to be successful. Then comes its marketing, team behind the project, attractive white paper as well as whitepaper must give the clear idea that what project will do.

So these are few things which makes ICO successful.

ICOs is synonymous to crowdfunding, here are the  things to consider to make a successful ICOs

1. Innovations - just like any product an innovation is important to adapt any new technologies.  creating new concept an ideas to create new products or services that will become a competitive to others.
2. Dedicated teamwork and a god team member- everyone in the team should contribute their task, responsibilities and duties and to prevent any conflict to run the project smootlhy.
3. Marketing and exposure - media conference, interviews, social media, and campaign are the ideal tool for exposure and advertising  your ICOs
4. After Market support - this is the most important for sustainability  as what have delivered on your ICOs, investors are your costumers too.

Excellent thread

It has to do something with the owners now raising funds is just like issuing of shares but when shares are issued they have to utilise those funds in order to get more capital etc. In case of ico the company isn't bound to anything so once they raise funds they don't care about the token they issue nor anything helpful is done which raises demand for their token if some ico can put some work they can be successful it has happened in past best example is ether

Definitely! In addition, in order for an ICO to be successful there should be many privileges to make or offer because people always think of good result of what they hold for any coin. There must be an assurance that ICO is not a scam because others always start with negativity in their minds so prove to them that it is not a scam or a trash. Let them be awakened to what they said.

1. Web content and quality
2. Whitepaper content
3. Team profile and social media link
4. Advisor
5. Ideas and implementation plan

My target list in the coming 2 weeks are:
1. Quantstamp - security
2. MindsportsIO - chess,go
3. Dmarket - gamers

even if they have that qualities but dont have people to support them , they wont still be succesful. infact ive seen many ico's thats verry promising and consists of good team and good project but why they are still unsuccesful? it because they dont get much support from the mass and maybe they are lack of advertising budget as result they cant get much crowd and exposure to the  public.

It's a small world with cryptos, who you have backing you seems to be the largest influencing factor. For example, Tezos and Tim Draper, or any coin that Blockchain Capital invests in. Something else is how many conferences the team goes to (Civic attends every conference!) having a nice website, with a great team also helps.

First and foremost, they need to have a good vision to start with. Then they will present how they are going to turn such vision into reality. This needs a detailed and possible narration and plan along with a roadmap. And then they will create a dependable team that will be solid enough to turn such dreams into hard actions. Marketing strategies will follow. This is vital because they need to reach out to the potential big and small time investors.

Assurance for ICO, I think it's impossible, maybe there's escrow for ICO and it's useful to keep the people's money safe. But assurance, I wonder how ICO will apply this kind of safety things for their users.
But I must agree that some of ICO starter often don't care about their coin or token after raising tons of money, just see those ICO that just let their coin become dust.
bad example of money grabber

As we notice there are many ICO's right now that grew simultaneously and because of it you are doubting which of it is the right one to invest in and to trust.

Believe me or not there is no way to fully know which ICO will surely succeed in the future but one thing that we can do in order to give us a big chance to choose the right ICO is to carefully look the background of the project, its goal, its team and also its developer.


 

First of all, it needs to have an appealing idea for investors to join in, second, a strong team that proves that they can deliver the product or service they're advertising, and third, a good PR campaign and thus, people's hype to invest in it.

Good team and realistic concept.. for example ARtoken... I like how they work so far (the company who is behind the project, called Cappasity, they've already done a lot, so you can really see the work progress)... I also think their goals and concept look realistic 

Other than the basics that everyone talks about on this form, it all comes down to the idea, marketing/hype built, and market fit. We can all support a cool idea, but if there's no need for it, it'll flop.

I recently found a token worth taking a look at. They claim to be the next generation of ethereum and more specialized/equipped for ecommerce/marketplace. Cybermiles partnered with the app 5miles to bring smart contracts to the app and then eventually commercialize it. Now THIS definitely has the application and a better blockchain would mean better efficiency.

which must exist in order to succeed ICO
1. The idea of ​​attracting to the target market
2. Good marketing
3. The developer team is active with fresh ideas.
4.vision and mission must be clear

It needs to be unique. If it is just copying some other ICO then why would it be successful? A good PR team would be beneficial too and maybe advertising via signature campaigns.

Need a good white paper and a reliable team, and the most important thing is that they can do good things.
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Whitepaper
Website
Team
Bounty
Money  8)

Well everything should be smooth, because a lot of scam ICO's and investors should be more careful on choosing ICO. The project should be more innovative and can compete to other big coins and the website, whitepaper should be more intact and the most important thing is they comply with the requirements of exchanges so investor will fully trust them.

totally agree! I would add about founders, that look at their past projects, well-known areas of their expertise... btw, the project you are toking about start their referral program... they pay 5% commission on every transaction you generate using your affiliate referral URL! You can sign up and promote the program at social networks. I'm thinking to join.. Do you want to join with me? You can find it at crowdsale portal - https://tokensale.cappasity.com

And question t everyone.. if I join to the referral program, could I put my referral in a signature here on the forum?

There are so many factors for successful ICO, in my humble opinion first of all it must be good idea. Second important thing is good marketing, even the best idea anything without marketing. And third is good and proffesional team and advisors with good reputation.

The ICO need a clean version of the white paper, good line up of the well experienced team and also a good road map so the investors and even their team will obey the project easily and the investor can easily see the progress of the ICO and that is what i really think that every ICO should have in order to become successful despite of the crowded ICO projects here.

Most of the important things were already mentioned here.
I'll just add

• Have everything prepared before the launch and have a detailed roadmap
• Don't neglect PR, marketing, business, tech, legal. Have a great (experienced) team.
• Have a perfect whitepaper but know that "nobody" will read it. Have a medium blog.
• Don't be just online. Go to meetups, conferences, talk to investors and techies. Form a strong community.
• Don't scam!

Also I find this article really helpful https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/9-mistakes-we-made-during-our-ico-and-how-to-overcome-them/

Guys! that's so true!!! I've spoken with some guys from VCs and other funds and all of them told me that the team is the most important thing even for them....some of them now also looking for promising ICOs, so they always choose it because of team

Many factors:
- Innovant and useful idea
- Clear roadmap
- Solid team
- Marketing campaign

Here is a nice article that includes every single point that should be present in the due diligence exercise for evaluating a certain ICO:

 https://en.insider.pro/tutorials/2017-08-14/how-choose-ico-investors-guide/  (https://en.insider.pro/tutorials/2017-08-14/how-choose-ico-investors-guide/)

I want to join this referral program but not sure I know how it works... I'm curious where could I find some guidance...

you just need to join and then promote the program at social networks. I don't know how to explain better.. maybe you can ask at their ann here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2135473.0

All it takes is that one name and all common sense goes out the window.

I believe that project that can effect offline economy are more reliable and has big future.So Confideal is my choice.

btw, the ICO has just started! Check this out https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2316185

It needs to prove that it can write software.

Most cannot.

now i think a successful ico is what can make investors gain profit and do help to the real economic, so a outstanding technology team is needed and whats important is a strong capital, this will do great help to the price pump and which will attract more people to invest

Really good team and a goal.
People will support a quality project.
I think Confideal is one of em.

Money money

Any ICO can look slick and do marketing well enough to create a buzz. You can make a buzz about a nonexistent company, with the right resources.. it's easy. But ICO's can and should become a long term investment, and if you intend on keeping the token for a while.. you need to choose an ICO that has a solid plan for the future, that is transparent and has a great team. An ICO needs everything any other company needs to be successful, it's not about the actual token sale. It's about the project's future

It surely is.

I've seen some ICOs that have met that criteria, but in the end they still went under because their story was fraud or the team could not execute in the end.

I agree with many, a successful ICO should carry a real value in itself. The product must be unique and in demand. The community also plays an important role.