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How do you evaluate whether to participate in an ICO?

Make sure that the project has a Twitter profile that is active each day and posting the updates that they've made on their. Visit their GitHub as well.

Here's a great article on points to consider when considering participating in any ICO.
https://www.coindesk.com/moon-bust-questions-ask-evaluating-icos/

That said, here are a few that pass my screening:
www.waxtoken.com
www.filecoin.io
www.MindSports.IO

evaluate a ICO participate an a project

Look at the team behind it, research their past work and check how capable they are. Also consider how disruptive their product would be and if the time is ripe for it.

sometimes it is very difficult to evaluate the ICO that we think is successful. now many altcoins are emerging and their popularity is limited to ICO only. we also sometimes mistakenly judge an ICO, which was initially unconvincing to succeed. then at the end of ICO is inversely proportional to that we p

From the team staff, Twitter, telegraph, team development progress and the project is good or bad
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I only look at the cap and their connection to get the tech adopted.

First you have to check and research your self that is the ICO is scam or not. For that purpose you have to mind some things like, Scam projects will often make bold claims about their product even though said project offers nothing new or disruptive.If the whitepaper is full of these type of bold claim and buzzwords with no clear meaning, no actual tech is discussed and only high level descriptions are given, then this is definitely a scam.Check its team management how experienced and capable to haldle that project they are.

I recently followed someone on twitter called Crypto_Hood.
they have an ico spread sheet and they will review ICOs you tweet to them and add them to the sheet. it linked on the twiiter.

I see no reason to participate in anymore ICO
It's not worth to chase the 1% which are not scam.

Search for the rating of the project on Icobench; four stars is acceptable. Then read their whitepaper, verify if their project makes sense and not just any idea jammed into the blockchain. Next, you ought to join their telegram or slack channel to see if the team is really keeping in touch with the participants and is giving updates about the project.

check out the team extensively, who did they work for, have they started successful companies before etc.

Never invest taking someone's twitter into consideration suncontract had 14k followers or something when evaluated 70% of them were fake. Github code are sometimes copied.

Most of these at end of there all articles tell it is a sponsored content. Basically all those articles will tell what's to convey.

Never invest on the first day of ico just make sure they are transparent about there ico , check the amount of bounties they are providing , check their profile weather it is real or taken from online.

You have to look for the following criteria:

Idea - Read their whitepaper and understand their idea - If you don't believe in it, then don't proceed.
Execution - See what the team has built so far, evaluate their website, Github account, team members, blog - working prototype, or a running App on test network.
Roadmap - review their roadmap and check whether the review their plan.

Stay away from ICOs that have only marketing Hype with nothing to show, look what happened to Tezos.

- Have a advisor with good track record
- Have a lot of capital to pay campaign participants
- Ads are everywhere
- Has a detailed white paper
- Roadmap makes sense

Well for me it's pure instinct.

If i like what they're offering and i think that the team is dedicated enough to make the whole project popular then i would just go for it without any doubts in my mind. Other people like to analyse a bit further but personally it's unnecessary.

Just avoid the really obvious scams, like Regalcoin, westerncoin, etc.

You need to spend a lot of time for reading article, websites, forums, reviews and so on. You should to make our own investigation for each projects to be sure it is not a scam. It's really hard and long term work if you want to reach some profit from it.

When I first started to understand what is Ico then I learned a lot of information and revised quite a large number of blogs on this issue.
And now I chosed first project. Hope for success!

   In first ICO I participated was BetKing, then BitDice and TokenFlip. All three casinos
have now their own tokens and I hold them still. In some I invested bitcoins I bought,
for some I was in some campaign and like that I earned additional amounts of tokens.
   I participated cause I have faith that this casinos will be more popular in future, and
tokens I hold will worth more. I believe in their future.
   You either believe in some project or not, at the moment I am in new ICO bounty
campaign. Worldcore is online wire transfer service, if you take a look in their bounty
you will see that they entered here seriously, first time I saw that some ICO advertise
themselves on so many places, on so many social networks. Reputable campaign
manager, good idea, good start, I will invest my own money in this project and I will
earn from advertising them.