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What criterias do you take into account when choosing?

Take my advice as a guide to verifying any ICO:
1. On preico, the team must have a contract for automatic transfer of funds with prescribed conditions for early investors - not handles like many do, namely those prescribed in a smart contract - otherwise the collected funds can simply enrich the funders or conditions will change during the play - cases of lots.
2. The contract for preICO should be part of a large ICO contract - not different coins - it is not safe in terms of vulnerabilities and withdrawals.
3. The contract for preICO and then the ICO should be registered lower and upper barrier - if this is not the team does not know what it wants - just a scam.
4. The contract for ICO should be escrow of the funds received as a result of placement - it can be a frieze or multisec with a voting condition. This will give you a guarantee against the expenditure of funds earlier than the team completed the previous stage.
5. In the contract, an unconditional refund should be prescribed in the event that the lower limit of the collected pool is not reached. It is in the contract and not in the white book, if it is not - scum.
6. All contracts must be posted on GithHub, this will enable third-party developers to check the contract for the vulnerability if the team has not taken care and before the ICO has not posted a bounty on the vulnerability.
7. The contract must specify the conditions for the team and for the bounty.
8. The contract must specify the conditions for not traded tokens - with clearly defined deadlines.

apart from reading wp (that is a must!) I just check whether I like the team and the idea of the project, there should be something interesting about it and appealing to me personally

Meet the team in person
Think if i buy and use their services
dont go all in on one project

I start from sites where people do some analyse before me, like icoholder.com or icobench.com . Then I look for ICO with best marks, like this https://contribute.safecrypt.io
then I look website, read whitepaper, join telegram chat and then I do my own conclusions about the project.

First of all, when choosing an ICO it is necessary to look at the idea of the project, whether it is good or not. In the second place it is necessary to look at the developers, as they actively communicate with the audience. In the third turn, it is necessary to see how authoritative people speak about the project, in this area.

There are an incredibly large number of criteria, most of which have already been named, but personally I am primarily trying to find as much information about the project in social networks.

I choose the ICO which does not need a new cryptocurrency for it work

I will choose ICO that has reached softcap, so ICO is not fail.

Firstly, I look at the product they want to make, and whether it is in my opinion a society now. I pay a lot of attention to the partners of the crypto project, not to the advisers and partners. That's enough for me.

Visit: icoguide.com, it is very good platform, rates are very good and real.

My favorite ICO is ambit Mining - do not miss public sale, from April 20

Need to be selective in choosing ICO. Always remember that not all ICOs will succeed. In the business world we also already know of thousands of new startup surely there are only a few that are successful. Therefore, if we intend to invest through ICO, we must be selective and understand the projects we follow. Some that need to be checked:
1. Whitepaper and its contents If the whitepaper is not clear and does not make sense, we better move away.
2. info about team, ability, credibility If the team that handles the ICO is not given, or kept a secret, we better move away.
3. Whether the market cap is fluctuating or not If the minimum and maximum money is changed at the time of the ICO offer or earlier, you better leave.

I choose the ICO which does not need a new cryptocurrency for it work

I independently analyze projects without relying on rating sites. My last choice was a German project Vreo.io Here is their link at bitcointalk https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2886707 Telegram grp https://t.me/vreoico  Very satisfied with the work of the team,
they make a native in-gaming  advertising

It is recommended to consider the following parameters in project analysis:

1. Market. It determines the project scale and development potential to a large extent. The perfect situation is as follows:
• A market with high development potential already having sufficient volume or a unique market;
• Low competition or its absence;
• Forecast that the project will take a significant market share.

2. Product. The value and potential of the idea itself can only be assessed subjectively. Attributes of a perfect product (as of ICO date) are:
• Unique idea, good blockchain usage, open-source;
• Solution to a relevant market problem;
• Technical part is well described in the whitepaper;
• The market is already ready for the product or will be ready within a couple of years;
• Problems of other blockchain projects do not impact the product performance;
• Community gives a positive feedback on the product, sees its value.

3. Token role. An important aspect for any investor directly influencing profitability. It is difficult to single out the best token model, but the required attributes can be described:
• Functional application within the network, which cannot operate without the token;
• The token demand among the network participants increases together with the project development.

4. Current achievements. This will help to understand the main goal of the team - to launch a particular product or to earn by means of ICO, and whether the team can work without substantial financing. Notable achievements prior to an ICO lower the risks for an investor. The examples of such achievements are:
• Free access to the alpha version of product;
• Speeches at conferences;
• Valuable partnerships.

5. Roadmap. Information from a roadmap will give the investor a clue as to when to expect any market activity. When a project hits its milestone, token prices usually surge. An ideal roadmap contains a detailed description of development stages taking financial component into account. In this case the team has a good understanding of how to move to the set goal.
 
6. Team. This factor is the main indicator of further project success for many investors. A good team can change the product or invent a new one in the worst-case scenario while a bad team can fail even with the best idea. A perfect team at the ICO stage includes:
• People having experience / expertise on the selected market (it is kind of hard to create a product for lawyers without any lawyers);
• Blockchain developers;
• People undertaking business process (operations, finance, scaling);
• CEO with experience in management and business;
• Advisory board to complement the team in the above mentioned aspects.

7. ICO conditions. Pay attention to the three following components: ICO limits, holding conditions, token distribution. There is no correct format, the conditions may significantly differ depending on the specific crowdsale. Positive aspects for each of the components are:
• The minimum and maximum amounts the project can collect correspond to its scale. It means that if a project fails to reach the minimum amount, all funds will be returned to the investors, and in case of a success the project will not receive any "excess" money. It's a big plus if the team can justify the ICO limits rather than just indicate the collected funds application fields. Even better if the money is given out in parts, upon reaching of particular milestones.
• The holding terms prevent accumulation of tokens in the hands of the largest players (whales);
• Token distribution is specifically justified by the team, the founders get a small percentage (15-20%). The team will not be able to sell tokens for an extended period of time.

The criteria I look for is good idea, team with relevant expertise, real life application of the project. I read the whitepaper, look at the road map and see how active the team is in crypto.

Everything must be consider before you invest because its really risky if you don’t make any effort on that. Personally, I just keep on reading until I fully understand the project and that is the time for me to participate on the specific ICO.

i'm personally survey based on icobench rating first. i think it's important to have up to 4.0 rate. the other one is  are the dev team and their whitepaper.

My friend helps me with the choice of ICO projects, as he has been well versed in this topic for a long time. But the main principles of choosing an ICO project are: the team that makes the project, the project itself (whether it will be necessary to anyone after the end of the ICO), as well as the amount that is allocated to the bounty company.

there are many considerations and research you should do before investing in ico. if you miss it, then I am sure you will lose. try visiting this thread and hopefully you can understand.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2822896.msg28918031#msg28918031

Some of the basic procedures or criteria you need to follow while choosing ICO are listed below:
1-The idea behind the project must be good and innovative
2-The technical team or developers behind the project must be reliable and they must be active on social media responding to people's issues
3-The funds must get automatically transferred to the wallets without showing any errors
Look for the above given points at first.

First and foremost do background research.

1. Whether the technical team of the ICO project is excellent.
2. Whether the ICO project has implemented the open source code.
3. Whether the ICO project has enough followers.

And also. follow the social media sites. and read the reviews from other users

Firstly, there should be a good team, the idea of a project that can be applied in everyday life, the coverage of events that the team does, these criteria all combine a project  Effect.AI in which I invested.

The team of the best professionals and excellent content.The company also has a website Builder for ICO, as we all know, is a huge advantage for business development.I advise everyone to cooperate with this company and you will never regret that started to work with this project.Good luck!

A BUBBLE OR A CHANCE?
With the background of those incredible stories and high returns some market observers often tend to keep warning the general public and investors of a collapse in the market, while others cordially invite people to participate in a new kind of euphoria.

Video review in Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC6rxUq1tYs&t=20s

https://pecun.io/

The choice of a reliable and profitable ICO is based on a thorough analysis of the startup. The fact that the start-up manager was able to find and interest good specialists, correctly advertize the project, shows that he is quite capable of doing the same after the ICO, which means that the chances for success are high. The probability that a startup will be successful is high if the product meets the following criteria: low level of competition; solution of one of the problems of the market; presence of a unique, practical, functional idea; market readiness for the product.

Well there are so many things that you have to before invest in an ICO:
- Read and learn their whitepaper (This is most important)
- Find more about those who behind the project.
- Knowing their future plan and benefit for you if you invest your money out there.
- Read some review on ICO review web and asking other people about their opinion.
- Design, promotion etc

There are many ICO,mostly are scams for authentic ICO analyze following factors.
1. Have a descriptive study of White paper and see whether ICO comply to it or not.
2. Good and experienced development team.
3. Core idea having something unique w.r.t other ICO
4. Marketing strategies to convey it's concept to community clearly.
5. Funding policy for that particular ICO
6. Practical usage for common community.

I look into an idea, team, soft cap and hard cap. I like to invest in ICO's with small hard cap actually.

1. Team 2. project itself - is should be clear 3. detailed white paper 4. conditions easy to understand

Today I have one good project to invest in, I already bought some coins and also can recommend to you: ambit mining

Team, investors, advisors, business plan, what they offer to the investors. But these days it is hard to choose correct ones for me. I prefer to wait they get in markets.

The team that stands at the source of the project is very important. If there is a strong CEO and technical developers, then they can bring the case to success.

hey fellas, you should have a look at SLASH

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3309075.0


They want to create a IT job listing market.
A crowfunding platform and data share community, with rewards like youtube with code and help to debug.

So worldwide coder should be able to learn, practice, and finaly work on the platform, from anywhere in the world.

I think it's a great concept, using some of the best internet concept.


I gave them a shot with a masternode, I guess I will get 2 or 3 masternode in a few days.
Great position I found here I guess, coin is already on a market (no order book but it's slowly building)

Damn, thats a huge list but seriously no amount of check points will prevent you from losing your investment in ICOs with the current failure rates. Only a handful of ICOs have succeeded that launched last year and the rest have already failed or exit scammed. Currently ICO is a very risky investment and one should try avoiding it.

Choosing a good ico to invest here are my suggestions. 1. Check their website 2. Team member and their role in the campaigns 3. Check their rating 4. Check their white paper and road map 5. Research and reading to earn knowledge and experi

I see the ratings on icobench also icodrops, and I see projects that are certain bounty managers.

I myself never select ICO because it is very difficult, almost at the level of visibility. So many scams now, so I rely on my friends, among whom there are very experienced traders.

Thanks for sharing. It's useful

A good ICO certainly has a good explanation of the Project to be achieved next. In addition they definitely have a very good team of developers. I am very enthusiastic to an ICO who is professional and do my best. Even a convenience in communicating can be a benchmark. I am very detailed about everything and if I find there is something awkward then I will stop, I am looking for a perfect project ICO and therefore I always pay attention to everything from the smallest. I do not want to fail and therefore I will try everything to convince myself to invest in an ICO Project. It does take a long time, but I'm sure I can be satisfied if I get what I want.

If an item looks like a scam, it may be. When you can't determine if an item is a scam, you'd better be careful. Although the lack of a well-designed website and detailed information for a cryptocurrency project may be due to the fact that the project is still in its infancy, it may be difficult for us to determine whether this is due to inadequate project development or because it is a scam.
In many cases, inadequate development and scams may be combined. In these cases, interested investors can either wait for more information to appear (such as those from the Asian market ICO, their information will be translated into English later), or they can avoid those they do not understand ICO.
Another important source of information for ICOs is the White Paper, which outlines project objectives, technical details, team status, and other important details. Although amateur investors may not have the technical background to fully understand all aspects of the White Paper, it is necessary to have a general understanding of the blockchain concept when evaluating the White Paper.
Some more orthodox projects (such as Ethereum) will provide high-level white papers that not only outline the key points of the project, but also include detailed technical documentation that explains the technology behind the project.

First of all, I'll read and understand their whitepaper to see if it has a good potential in the crypto world. Then check the background of the team who build this ICO then after that use different references to see how good their teams are,and then further research to their plans if it is going to contribute a lot in the crypto currency world.

For me, many criteria are important. I study the project team, the technical documentation, the innovativeness of the project idea, the competition, the events in the project road map. Also very good, if there is a finished product or a beta version.

Choosing the ICO i will invest into, I normally consider four things and once they are complete and then I will make my investment decision. So the things I consider includes
1. the product they are building
2. The team handling the project
3. Their roadmap
4. Their token metrics

ICO selection requires experience and knowledge of ICO projects to be able to select the most potential project. You can base on some primary indicators such as Token sale, total Token supply, soft cap and hard cap to select the potential ICO. Choosing an ICO is the most crucial step because it determines the profit you will earn when you participate in that ICO project.

Selective in choosing an ico project needs to be done. The thing I do to analyze it usually starts from the benefits of the project. Next, I checked the white paper, the experience and the team's activities, advisers, and everything else related to the ico project.

Actually I choose ICO to invest by using whitepaper that can really help me to choose which of the company those have a good quality of service that can really make you profitable in this business.

I choose the ICO to invest in the way that I’m looking to what feedback that the company get from their investors
because i believe this is the best and reliable source of information

Before investing in a good iCo; I look at project ideas, project managers, social media accounts, comments about the project. I pay attention to product quality and availability to the market.

The team behind it is probably the most important for me, then just look at reviews in various places to see what other people think of it.

A few thinks follow and choice a great ICO. The concept behind the undertaking need to be significant and innovative. Technical team or developers at the back of the project should be dependable and that they need to be lively on social media responding to customers issues. The price range have to get routinely transferred to the wallets without blunders. Support team must be open minded. Above all, it must have a good match with its road map.

If you are new to this business, it is better to trust the professionals, because now there is a lot of sites with project ratings, teams of specialists are working hard to find a good project for investment.

I agree, if you are a beginner, then look at the YouTube channels, now there are useful channels that will help you get started, but do not stop there. Continue to study crypto to be independent and find projects one of the first.

reading carefully ICO and ask ourself whether you will fit with this project or not?
If it can call the passion inside you, it is a good signal of a success project.

First off, make sure that the developers are not anonymous. If they are, that is as red of a flag as it can possibly be. If there are names listed Google them thoroughly, focusing especially on the development team and the advisory board.

Many fake ICOs will claim involvement of some sort of a prominent figure, more often than not it’s Vitalik Buterin, make sure to always triple check that information.

Always make sure that an ICO has a wide and, most importantly, open supporting community. A public Slack or Telegram chat for all investors is generally a very good sign. Other sources like Facebook, Twitter or Reddit, can be extremely handy when evaluating an ICO as well.

Keep an eye out for so-called bounty posts and threads. It is a very common practice to ask people to spread positive information about the project for certain rewards to increase both media and the community attention towards the projects.

At this point there are lots of reply, recommendation and advise which should be considered before to invest in ICO in addition for that is dont be to greedy investing and you do not put your egg in one basket. Make sure you always review the persons/team behind the project to lessen the risk of your investments.

Im looking into the idea of the project, how unique it is and their solution to the problem. The team behind the project is one of the factors that should be considered too. The marketing strategy because it's better to invest in a project with more investors.

First of all, I look at the idea of the ICO project and the previous projects of the development team (how successful they were).
Also, it is necessary to pay attention to whether the tokens of this ICO were published on the exchange.
And how many managed to collect a Soft cup.

which definitely has a clear purpose and a definite concept. it can be obtained when we read the white paper from the project.

I will look out on the team ,developer and advisor behind the project and check if the project was created for different purposes from other projects before heading to rating site.

For me I always think if their product or idea would sell to public, what I mean if its marketability. Because a project always depends on its community to be able to succeed, If I see the project not getting any huge exposure or either not getting enough support then I would go for them. Right now, there are few projects that wins my heart in terms of this criteria namely OPP and Menlo just look into their telegram group's and you'll see a number of supports they are getting.

Is Menlo One 100% legit in your opinion? It has high ratings and great reviews but can we really trust them? I would like to conduct further research but don't know where to start  :-\

Check Team if they did't have it, just forget it. Look at their partnership, look at their vision, whitepaper, roadmap and finally check at ICO rating site as a consideration.

Some criteria that I always note and consider before choosing an ICO are:
1. The concept of the projects to be chosen whether its is promising, interesting, real, and real-product or not for the future
2. The team, whether they are real or not with its track record
3. Coin supply and progress of the token sale
4. Community channel moreover in the Telegram

i dont have enough knowledge to know how the project being legit or not. but for now, im just ride the wave. meaning i am relying on what the higher ranks advises and they participating projects. maybe in the next coming months im the one who give idea for newbies out there.

I do not advise you as a beginner to invest in ICO.This method is very risky.Only in 20-30% of cases you will make a profit.

I think first of all need to see what exchanges they want and what is product, if they not planning exchanges then there is chance that you will not go plus.

everyone has a different point of view in determining an ico, but i know everyone will see ico products as well as read the white paper and see the team that is in the ico

I choose a good ICO to invest with many factors:
- Team: The project team will decide on the project level
-roadmap: The route will help me know what the project will do in the future
- partners: I like projects that have strong partners
-whitepaper: I selected the project with a natural whitepaper and this helped me to understand more about the project

I think the most crucial things to consider when going to choose an ICO to invest are that we must analyze the team exactly. They are real or not based on the information in their social media or other community channels. Then, we must also analyze the ideas and technology offered by the ICO, it is different and new or not. Analyzing the tokens and the prices are also important to make exact consideration.

in my opinion, the best thing is to get acquainted with the team . And directly all to know this is the surest way . swatara prio

All the thinghs said above and don't understimate communications (many times in the post Ico the community get destroyed by a lacking of  good communication). Another important thing is the token price (in the last times the prices are really fool).

Actually I crop ICO to buns near victimisation whitepaper that real advice me to crop which of the accompany those annex a capital level of help that you bankable in this carrier bag.

From my personal experience in analyzing good ICO projects, I first needed to see the project idea, whether it was good or not. In the second place it is necessary to see the developers, because they actively communicate with the audience. In the third turn, it is necessary to see how the people authorized to speak about the project, in this field.

There are several factors that I take into account to invest in an ICO, such as whether the project has an MVP to be evaluated, whether the team has experience in the subject, and several developers, whether the project solves a real-world problem and whether there is a community behind the project.

There are a lot of thinggs that I like to consider when choosing an ICO. For a start, I take a look at the whitepaper to see what the project is all about, and if it is an interesting one, I go as far as checking out the team members, are they reliable? cos I don't want to involve myself in some scam project. Also if it it listed on a well known exchange, it would be a plus.

Choosing an ICO for investment is really tough. However, when I invest in ICO, I try to evaluate the following criteria.
1. The goal of the project
2. Technology used by the project
3. The team
4. Their social presence

I think if you can correctly evaluate those criteria, you will be able to choose the best ICO.

A couple of thinks take after and decision an awesome ICO. The idea driving the endeavor should be critical and inventive. Specialized group or engineers at the back of the undertaking ought to be tried and true and that they should be energetic via web-based networking media reacting to clients issues. The value run need to get routinely exchanged to the wallets without goofs. Bolster group must be liberal. Most importantly, it must have a decent match with its guide.