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1.  What is the best place to find pre-ICOs that are coming up?

2.  Why would someone skip a pre-ICO (and the bonus) and do the ICO instead?  Is it just because they didn't realize there was a pre-ICO until it was too late or is there a logical reason a person would intentionally skip the pre-ICO and wait for the ICO to invest in?

I think you can find many in the ANN thread in Bitcointalk. Well sometimes pre-ICO requires higher minimum investment which means not many people could afford it. Otherwise it could mean not enough publicity by the project itself.

It is not easy to find good projects among Announcement section, since there are too many projects there.
You can check some ICO analysis website for help.

r/cryptocurrency.
There's always a post somewhere about an ongoing earlybird ICO which has potential.
Just browse it everyday.

I think you can find a lot of good projects on the ANN thread. I spend a certain amount of time browsing the ANN thread every day. If I find a good ICO project, the rewards are amazing.

What is ANN thread?

Today must be your first day here. ;D
Most of the bitcointalk users are here for ANN.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0 is the place you definitely should go frequently as long as you have time.

Like some people have said already, such information are found in the ANN forums.
However, you still need to go further by researching on any pre-ICO project. On the other hand, people hop in after pre-ICO when they are convinced that the project has a good prospect of being successful

You can find many Pre-ICO projects from websites are for listing these.
But the most one thing is that, how do you know this project is the obe you are finding?

Yes your right but before you find it just read it and understand because eventhough you think it is good but the thruth is bad ico. So just be careful to choose always.

Check the announcements on this forum but make sure you do your research before investing. Also, try not to listen too much to scam accusations as pretty much everything that is successful in the cryptoverse has been called a scam at one point or another. Just do your own due dilligence and you'll be fine.

Some people might skip pre-ico but still invest in ico maybe because they haven't heard it before and will still invest because it's a good project.

Many answers, and none answers the question there is a special site where specified Pre-ICOs?

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Mainly because there isn't one. The ICO websites charge (and charge a lot) for listing ICOs- anywhere between $800-$20,000 at current BTC:USD prices. If you're raising a small cap, that's a big gamble, so they don't go for it. ANN has generally been the better way of finding them early. Probably is a market gap for someone there.

The pre-ico stage is the company's initial stage of offering to the public for selling their token. Here a man must go for investing if he had readen the whitepaper thoroughly and find the project is challenging one in future and the team members are very popular in the world. This stage of investment will be very beneficial because here the company offer the highest bonus almost 50% even, 100% also for some company. So, I think Pre-ICO is the best stage for investing.

You should look into the bee token presale coming on january 2nd. Their pre-sale is meant for accredited investors. The project itself is very cool. Decentralized airbnb with zero commissions. https://www.thebeetoken.com/

Do you mean reddit by r/cryptocurrency?

Yeah. You never know when someone posts about a potential coin or ICO which might explode. If I had more funds I'd read everyday for some weeks, and invest in 3-4 wildcard which might appear.

Not all ICOs offer a Pre-ICO but if you do plan to invest in a project that offers it, the bonus will be higher.   

pre Ico is more risky than the normal ico. first you need a minimum amount, you cant participate with only a small amount. Further if you wait until the ico you can follow the pre ico. Is there enough interest for the project? did they end the pre ico successfully and collected enough money? On the other hand you get a higher bonus for joining prte ico,... in the end its up to you

Read the whitepaper of the project and examine the feasibility of the project yourself and decide accordingly. I think that's the most plausible method.

I learn about many upcoming ICO's from this forum. Many people write here and share good projects. I look through the bounty and even if I do not take part, but many are very promising. Pay attention to the signatures of the members of the forum. I also subscribed to several channels in the telegram. They also post brief descriptions of the upcoming ICO.

1. Just look at the announcement thread.

2. I guess people would skip the pre-ICO if they are not 100% confident that it will go well, if the ICO has raised a decent amount in the Pre-ICO then you have a higher success rate. To be a Pre-ICO investor usually you need to be a firm backer of the project and believe in it, because most ICO;s have a Pre-ICO lock on selling tokens.

People may skip pre-ico due to different requirements at pre-ico stage (minimum contribution may be very high, or tokens may be locked up, etc...)
At ico stage there are lower caps usually.

1. ANN section, token section and ICO trackers are the best place to find it.

2. I really don't know. When I decide to invest in a project, I'm always for the pre-ICO because I want to maximize main gain.

Good analyzation is needed to find a good project to participate or invest in. There are many good projects that the ICOs are providing but for these projects to be the sucessdul tremendous base of the investors is needed. This forum provides necessary means to find a good project. You can always try to find some respectful site that is providing the more info about the current and the upcoming ICOs. Every ICO is providing the possible risk factor that must be taken into consideration when the investment is being made. Pre-ICO is quite new when it comes so it won't attract many newcomers to it if the whitepaper is not well presented to the people. ICOs are very risky but the good investment can bring you the nice amount of the profit when the sale ends and even after that.

There's a specific forum here called alternative coins announcement you can check there if there are new ICO then you can visit their ANN thread and white paper and try reading their platform I think with that you can assess of the ICO is going to work well or if it is a good investment to take. Last year has been a great year for many ICO I hope that happen again this 2018.

Both reasons are possible. It is possible that one would miss ICO pre sale because he never knew about it. It is still possible that he is aware but have not made his mind on whether to invest until after the presale.

Sometimes there is no much difference between pre-ICO and ICO, except that the price in pre-ICO is more attractive.
I don't understand why there is always a pre-ICO while they can do all fundraising in ICO.