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im new to this field and hope to invest on my first ico.i dont have huge capital.so i like to start with a affordable good ico.i hope to invest with in 1 week.can you please tell me your ideas about running/upcomming icos

Honestly, your best ico for you a newbie is no ico. The best thing you can do now can be only not participating in any ico.

Since you're a newbie, I recommend going with big companies that have reputation and credibility.

I personally just got into cybermiles. Solid team, great idea (with huge market demand), and partnership witht he app 5miles that has over 12 million users. They're a marketplace token/blockchain protocol. After they integrate into 5miles, they'll commercialize the blockchain for businesses.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2017/10/03/5miles-launches-cybermiles-blockchain-project-to-decentralize-the-online-marketplace/#411bd4ae6d3a

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/3-new-ways-a-popular-peer-to-peer-marketplace-app-uses_us_59a42402e4b0d0ef9f1c1594

whitepaper: https://cm.5miles.com/file/project/Project%20white%20paper_en-US.pdf

all those who are going to recommend projects are probably the owners of them, so be careful in there because it is obviously that they will try to make-up their story in order to make it look good.
be careful with all the ico's that you are going to see, because they are very risky at the moment, i would suggest you to stay away from them, but i can not.. it is upto you to invest in them or not.
But yes, if i have some funds, i would not invest in them, doesnt matter how good is the return of those.

if you check out the newly launched ICOs, most of them are below the ICO price. time is different and even great project suffer right now. with that said, you can still invest in ICO but it will be a long term invest.

There are many promising projects now. I'm going to give you a few names and you will study them and choose them: Gladius, Ripio, Crypterium and AION.

Hello, the LiveEdu ICO Pre-sale is running now, you can check it HERE. (https://tokensale.liveedu.tv/) Buy your EDU tokens now before cap is hit!!!

there are a few projects I followed and I can suggest you the guts-ticket Project. Pre-sales process is over but sales period started.
guts project collaborated with many concert

if I may give suggestions, maybe you can try to join ICO Spectivvr. Token sale will be held in December

can not join the campaign you have to be jr member and just read the forum

Im a newbie too but i just gonna tell you, good ico is where there a clear roadmap have whitepaper and trustable team. But yeah maybe for now i just stay away from that, you know like i still have thing to learn before can take action in it

It's just my opinion: don't invest in ico as a newbie unless you have a clear vision of what you want to achieve.

If your answer it's "quick profit" reconsider.
If you want to be an early adopter of a new technology... well makes more sense to me.

But it's my opinion of course :-)

thans for your valuble responces.so many told me tnot to invest for icos as a newbie.i cant understand why they r telling like that.could you please explain what is the difference of investing on ico and buy some alt coins.?highky appreciate your valuble ideas
thanks

Whatever your decision may be, best thing to do is good research firstly, and once you feel more comfortable with any particular ICO, if it's a big project it will have good reputation.

Best advice is don't invest in an ICO if you don't know what you're doing. I would say put your money in bitcoin and maybe a few top alts. Then follow the news and follow how the markets behave, maybe do a little trading (with small amounts) if you are interested in it.
And then after you've learned a lot, then maybe look at ICOs... so you go in knowing not just about that ICO but also about dump patterns and general market behaviour.

if you are a newbie better not to invest your money in any ICO its very risky  now a days there are so many ICO that may only scam investors money better keep on reading in forum or invest on those coin that is famous already like btc eth or ripple or litecoin

Mark this wise word. There is like 100 ico/weeks nowadays, if you are a newbie it'll be hard to found the gem.

Check out Propthereum.io, an asset backed cryptocurrency on the blockchain who are expecting a 1566% coin appreciation. Proceeds raised from their ICO will be used t purchase A-grade property worldwide generating 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 best what you can do with your money now is to study crypto, economics and investment. It would bring much more than any investment in ICO as of now.

The one in which you won't participate. That's the only path to keep your money safe. "Nothing ventured nothing gained" If somebody will give you guidance and tell you how to invest and where you'll remain a newbie investor till the end of your days. However, should you be buying some coins and loosing money (at first) you'll learn the ropes quickly and will become a true professional in a blink of an eye.

Choose for yourself. Your first investment doesn't mean that you will certainly loose all your investments, however the odds aren't in your favor. That's why you have to learn not to trust anyone except for yourself

Collectorcoin looks extremely promising and they launch ICO December 1st 2017.

I actually already invested because It is the First ICO I have ever seen that already had businesses ready to accept the coin.

They also aren't offering their token at $1-$2 (those ICOs leave a lot of potential for loss) I usually stay away from those.

Look for an ICO with a vision that you like and support. This always helps.

There are a lot of good ICOs, just go to the Bounties section and you'll find some there. But since you are still a newbie, it is better that you read A LOT first before joining campaigns in ICO because you might get confused. Take your time learning from elders here because they know better and may give you a lot of advices. I, myself, is still learning too.

You are really not a newbie because with the amount of posts and time you have been on the forum, its enough to pick one or two ICOs and do your own review. The best ICO now is the one you have certify as the best after you must have done your own personal due diligence. A lot of suggestions but don't be lazy to rely on someone who will not share in the loss when it happens. Do your analysis and make your decisions based on that.

There are lot of ICO that are coming in future like Minerva, Credits, HOQU .. Do take a look. I would advice dont invest in ICO, wait for token to hit exchange and price to drop below ICO then you can buy!  ::)

Under the danger of sounding self-serving, do take a look at the Neufund ICO.

>>> DISCLAIMER: I'm associated with and employed by Neufund <<<

We actually call it an ICBM, short for Initial Capital Building Mechanism.

No, not Intercontinental Ballistic Missile – although we do believe we'll go to the moon... 🚀🚀🚀

In that ICBM we are not even getting to spend any of your money. 0 %. Nada.

All of it goes to innovation funding, determined at the individual level by you. You control your funds AND get the protocol token NEU in return.

Investing in ICO is no good choose for newbie. You can invest in ICO if you know what do you want to pursue. In my opinion better for you will be invested in bitcoin,altcoin etc.

I recommend that you start by learning about Altcoins, and then learn more about ICO's by browsing there websites and reading there whitepapers!
There are ICO's that seem to be good now, but not all are 100% legit. I'm participating in a bounty now for trade.io that you can find here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2370663 and i believe it will be a great ICO for me.
trade.io is an innovative new blockchain trading platform that will disrupt the financial ecosystem and democratize the markets.
You can check them out at this website https://trade.io/. And to learn more about them join them on Telegram also.

here is the ICO from Crwodholding (https://ico.crowdholding.com/), actually with a working product. You can earn tokens by answering questions on various tasks as well.
I think this ICo is a great one. The product allows you already to earn, you can test it out through their platform (https://www.crowdholding.com/newsfeed), and the evaluate the possibilities of the concept Crowdholding claims and invest in.

You are so honest mate. I also think the same but i prefer to suggest newbie learn first before get involve in this crypto.
Like me, i still not invest in any ico since i think that i still need learn more first.

Research is the key here. Just like any investment knowing the business, the industry and where they are going is vital. Here are a few things i look for in an ICO

- Strong team - Both in development team and also the CEO's / marketing (no point having a great team to create something, if nobody can advertsie it and push the startup in the right direction.
- Realistic vision - not aiming too high or if they do not reach their target everyone who invested will be disappointed
- Solid whitepaper - Well thought out, shows realistic goals, a strong good vision and a plan of action
- Strong social media presence - A social media that shows they are connected with everyone
- Good customer support - Shows they care, and they have invested time and money into making sure the average investor can ask questions
- Good website - A business who is willing to throw time and effort into a good website are less likely to be a scam
- finite supply - ICO's with no cap can be dangerous and can simply just damage their own coin by releasing more for more investment.
-Market they are getting involved with - Is this a new market? or a dying one? who controls the market?

Also here is an interesting article comparing ICO's with a working product vs a vision.

https://medium.com/@crowdholding/mvps-pocs-and-ideas-which-icos-should-i-better-invest-in-and-which-will-let-me-down-369bf1ffae2

Personally I am looking into Crowdholding

https://ico.crowdholding.com

Not many people are talking about Wish Finance. They have already generated about half a million dollars. Their concept is to loan money to small businesses. They will be giving out ERC20 Etherium based tokens. They have a pretty decent website and if you look at their roadmap, they had the concept since 2015, meaning they have been working on this for quiet a while now. They have already completed a pilot program to test the viability of their business and the system and they have 0% defaults. The pilot was done with 500 Thousand dollars and they got every dollar back from the businesses they had lend the money to. By the way, the money was lend out to small local businesses in Singapore. It was in July 2017 that they did their whitepaper and published it. Now the official ICO is going on. During the pre investment phases they collected 450000USD.

In early 2018 they are going to launch the loan portfolio management system based on blockchain so it would be absolutely transparent and in the middle of 2018 they are going to have Neural Networking Analytics system release. This is the brain of the system that they will be generating based on which loans could be processed with 24 to 48 hours only against banks which usually takes weeks or even months to process loan applications.  Towards the end or late 2018 they are going to have the first lender in Asia. Their already exists a proven product and they have a long and impressive roadmap and we are still very early as investors. I expect it to become really huge in end of 2018. Another great feature about Wish Finance tokens is that these tokens can be rented from token holders to  lender by the means of revenue sharing. In 2019 they even plan to give out loans to online merchants and towards late 2019 they intend to get in insurance and exchange tools and if this was not enough by 2020 they would be doing white label for SME banking with international trade lending.

Their CEO Eugene Green has 15 years of experience (by the way you can talk to him over telegram - https://t.me/wishfinance ) and has founded 3 startups since 2000 and successfully sold them in profit. There are about 17 core members in the main team and they are in the process of adding more people in their portfolio. More information could be found at their website - https://wishfinance.com

It's important to reiterate what others have said:

If you are a newbie, than DON'T invest in an ICO.

The common mentality of those new to crypto is to get rich quick, and they see ICO's as their ticket to lambos and martinis.
The overwhelming consensus of those in crypto now is that ICO's are risky, scammy, and too numerous.

So if you still insist on doing an ICO.
Take at least a MONTH monitoring current icos that are happening, ones that currently finished, and ones three to six months ago.
Here are some high profile ICOs that just finished and you can look into them to see how things go after the ICO hype is finished:

Red Pulse
Chainlink
Electroneum
Cindicator

Here are some that finished two to six months ago:

OMG
TenX
Ark

Also, look up ICOs that turned out to be scams.
Research all this stuff, look for patterns, due your due diligence, then make your choice.

Hi, I would suggest you to take a look to Trade.io, team is good, idea is very good, I think is a good investment.

You can access this website to get profit https://playkey.io/en/?tokenSales=true. This is an excited project about game. You will be interested in with it.

haha i think its true. When a newbie suggests you a project you already know it will be a joke, because someone can easily make a new account and promote you a project. Even when somebody with a high rank suggest you something you need to always check it, because the account can also be easily bought. Everything is your choice by the way you decide if you will invest in ico's.

if you not mind, you can join Spectivvr, the ICO of spectivvr will held on 8th December later.

I suggest you to learn more about them before join to their company. You can learn the whitepaper of their company. But as newbie, maybe you can try anything else to earn money. Because participate in ICO is more risk for you.

If you're a newbie, i'd suggest you stay away from ICOs at least for a while... Get your feet wet in cryptos with already estabilished coins like Btc, Eth and many others. The ICO market is full of shady scams and bad deals, and as a newbie you might fall prey to one of those.

If you are a newbie here, you must have to participate on an ICO. Not to invest on it because it is too risky.

I'd suggest - not to part with your BTC easily.  Many ICOs are scammed, you must be prepared to lose all the money.

Especially if you have dodgy escrow like Lauda, which is the equivalent of not having an escrow.

The best ICO project is nothing. When you want to invest in the ICO, you must determine what fortune you can lose. Almost of ICO is based on MLM or Ponzy structure, so the period of it depend on the amount  of investor. The best way to get profit from the ICO is: choose to buy the best ICO and wait it x3, x4, sell it imediately.

If you are new to this field. It's best not to invest in ICOs. Take a look at what the ICO is and how much profit and loss. It's better to first join their Bounty. And what you earn is the one you invest in. Keep in mind that not all ICOs are sucessful so you should be cautious to find out if their purpose is real. To make the money you earn is safe and not just go to the hands of a civilized person.

yes newbie should not join ico. you need to learn more about this world  qnd when you are ready you can try to invest some. but from now on you need to learn and find what kind of thing is invesnting on ico

To find good ICO actually not hard if we spend time to learn aim of the project and really understand the project. But if you dont have time to look for ICO review, there many other expert person make video about review some project. Only by watching  their video review in youtube that will help you to understant the project.
Some potential ICO is Bankex, Crypterium, Hacken, CyberMiles,INS and Covesting.
*Always do you own research before make invest.

ICO is just, we bet how much we can get(profit) from that coins. it's just like gamble don't gamble if you scare about lose.

I am a newbie myself, so thanks for posting this thread. While I am not looking at ICO, I am just studying about crypto markets and just looking at purchasing some alt coins. Good luck to you.

This site is so useful. Glad I found it...

Roger :)

Welcome :)  Just remember that this space (ICOs) is full of scammers and due diligence is always required.

Have a look at this for example:
https://steemit.com/xenio/@prisoneroflies/due-diligence-on-nvst

if you are a beginner, i suggest you do not invest in ico, because fraud is very much in ico. investing in ico requires a fairly high experience. so do not spend your money if you do not really understand the way ico. and if you really want to invest in ico, I suggest you invest in GIZER and SPECTIV. this is quite promising, and you can see the thread itself

Best thing to do if you represent yourself as a "newbie" is just dont invest to ICOs for now. Become familiarized, study markets and review each and every ICO that come. Invest as long as you found and knew for yourself that ICO would make profit for you in the future or is worthy for your money.

An alternative to investing in altcoin is to look at the frequency and quality of the development of this coin at github because you have to know that in the world of blockchain, the reference standard except marketing is code, which is a technical expression of the development team.

as a newbie also, what i can suggest is to do a research and study on a certain ICO that gets your interest with  :D

I am also new to the cryptocurrency.I studied about icos.i am going to take tokens today after my study.

There are some interesting ICOs out there, very promising: Gladius, Qchain, Sether, maybe Utrust (I think they will come around with the difficulties in the project). I also invested in Swarm, Electroneum and holding some other alts like VTC, OMG.

Look at STeX exchange project. Stex is smart trading exchange. Im interest in this because we will get 100% commision as a token holder.
Ico will start on november 28th. Presale was Successfully hardcaped on 15k ETH. Lear more on https://stex.exchange

i think u must to be a jr. member for get an ico..
maybe for newbie can do bounty in socia media, like facebook and twitter..。

I think you better stay away from ICO if you are a newbie, you need more experience about ICO and alt coins before jumps in the ICO investing, even some of the more experience users can be scammed by ICO, it is a bit hard to detect legit ICO and fake ICO, and there are so many things to research when you want to invest in it

I agree that you must stay away from ICO if you are a newbie. But  remember Google is your friend, you can find and search for the reliable ones. Make sure to investigate first and look for a trusted review page. That's where you can pick a good ICO. You may also check the crypto currencies forum page on bitcointalk forums before investing in coin.

In my opinion, ICO is a very profitable investment, but it depends on the ICO we had chosen. I suggest you to do test market with pre-ICO. For example, read white paper of MiraLab.io, their Pre-ICO starts on November 27-29, you just need 100$ for that stage. If their pre-ICO target is successful and can accumulate a lot of money then it can be sure ICO will be successful and you will get nice profit.

Even the experienced users in the forum are being very cautious about the investments in the ICO's. I think it is better to gain more experience before thinking about the investments.

I only invest on ICOs when I see on their sales if they already hit their minimum cap or even the maximum cap because it is sure that you have a successful investment in ICOs with 100 percent success rate, not all ICOs also is a promissing and also their are scams so be careful in terms of investment on it.

as a newbie you should not come to think of ICO because you have not arrived at the second stage. keep on making comments in order to produce better

You can solve this problem, the new two words removed. First of all, you have to understand the logic of your question. Long term value investment or short-term speculation? Some ICO project technology is very strong, but not necessarily short-term explosive force; some you can not see anything, but the market will rise very fierce. This is also explained: market logic, technical logic, value logic are different. But in the long run, the source of long-term value and technology and innovation.

Try to invest in some small project will extremely low hardcap but not a lot, 5% of all your crypto in one maximum. There could be a lot of xxx even in first day after ICO. Look at my signature as one of candidate.

Before anything else, as a newbie you should rank up, before participating on an ICO try to understand more of the crypto world, every single detail or knowledge that you will learn can be your guide to choose what ICO you should be joining. If you become a junior member. I suggest to join spectiv , it is a promising project, you will learn from this ICO it us about VR streaming experiences, it contributes the world in technology purposes. Visit their page to know more about spectiv https://www.spectivvr.com

If you are really interested to invest in the ico, well you still have a chance to avail the ico in Utrust because their ico will end on November 20 2017, you still have 1 day left more to buy their token. Because this ICo Utrust is one of the successful ico happened this year.

If you want to invest in ICO without a lot of knowledge, the best way is to follow news from established publishers such as coindesk and cointelegraph and invest in ICOs mention in there. There's less possibility that these projects can come out as scam

Our token sale begins in 2 weeks:

valhallacoin.com

expert investors might also with the decision to put of kinds with appreciation with the release of offers from the LHCdeveloper as works with the ICO schemes of the schedule as the beginning month of the new year.

please refer to release of whitepaper from the LHC company of the details with the projects plan.

https://lh-crypto.io/

as a newbie you need to start with the ico with ship price , and you need to read evry thing about the project for what ? the team and road map

 UTRUST is a revolutionary payment platform that empowers buyers to pay with cryptocurrencies ( Token Sale ends in 17 hours )
1 UTRUST = 0.0650 USD

 I recommend United Traders. Look who leads this project. these are famous people in business. they value their reputation

Are they good?

Choose an ICO that suits you best. Find that out by doing research on the ICO through whitepaper and checking sites that review that ICO.

I would suggest trade.io that is a new Blockchain Trading platform. It's currently on PRE-ICO and doing very well.
It's soft cap was $5M and they are on their way to hitting $10M in less than 2 weeks. With the help of their solid team, they will achieve a great many things. This is only the beginning for trade.io. You can find them at the links posted below.

Registration: https://account.trade.io/en/signup?ref=chrisgellere&mtype=i
ANN Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2367245.0
Bounty Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2370663.0

I am also agree with you mate, it is better to stay away from ICO as an newbie and trade with popular altcoins or bitcoin because it is less risky but if he really want to do ICO then I recommend him to take a look at Ico reviews websites and do his own research. But in my opinion it is not worth investing in ICO since it is risky then trading for the same rewards

BTC is at all time high, so I dont think its right time for new entrants to invest in market. As post ICO there will be dumping to get profits and new members investment can get hurt or stuck because of that dumping. Better buy tokens from exchange post ICO  ;D ;)

You are not right. You suggest that a person invest in a bank, while he would like to enter the stock market. Yes, many bad ICO, but there are many good ones. The best advice is how to choose a good ICO

Check Qchain project. ICO already running for some time. Already got demo of the project. Very good devs team. Ready to help any time asap. It will make some x in future , for sure.

Really the best ICO does not depend at all on how long you have spent in crypto. I would say however firstly that you should form your own judgements instead of asking others and secondly that depending on how much you have to invest you may find that some projects are off limits for you.

Newbies should stay away from ICO. They make many mistake while participating in ICO. The send ethereums to wrong addresses and they have problems after all. They give exchange wallet addresses while participating.

Never risk you money in ICO as a newbie.

UTRUST is a good ICO i may agree on it becuase of its platform i never tried UTRUST to invest for but i read its platform and also there is a lot of participants try to check it i suggest this also for some newbie to start for.

Caution is important if you want to join ICO
I advice you ensure you get adequate knowledg on what it entails and how to discover a good oroject to invest in
Do not be in a hurry to join ICO.

Mira's pre-ICO started today.
They have collected over 150 000$ in just a couple of hours. Look - https://miralab.io/

You can participate to any ico since you do not have any experience yet on how the ico or platform works, Try to explore different ways to earn bitcoins and from there you can think what will suit for you.