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There are two obstacles to writing a good whitepaper:
1. Insufficient understanding of the business and/or technical background
2. A lack of time or inclination for the writing process, including structuring one's ideas (and not forgetting stuff)

Obviously, most technical founders of blockchain projects have to deal with problem 2, not 1. Therefore, we have developed an easy-to-use and comprehensive template for structuring one's braindump into a solid whitepaper. All of the features of our guide and template are evidence-based: We have chosen seven companies that did extraordinarily well in their ICOs and analyzed their whitepapers with regard to certain characteristics.

In recent weeks, we have had a couple of test versions of the product, and today we're finally proud to launch:

The Ultimate ICO Whitepaper Guide (http://www.intellicore.press/ico-whitepaper-template)

The guide will be available for free for three Bitcointalk users willing to provide constructive feedback (please PM me for this). Regular price is $189, discounted introductory price $149 (valid until May 31).

Let us know what you think! :)

A bit unrelated but, how was working with Bob's Repair?

A lot of the material is already available in the public domain. Nevertheless, you might be revealing some secret sauce not generally known.

For an eBook, your price is rather steep. On the other hand, this is the world of the ICO, where in-game currency topped USD20k last year, so don't let the standard eBook pricing model hold you down.

Best wishes for Your sales success from a fellow (wannabe) book writer (hopeful author).

:)


 

It was one of the best projects we've ever been involved in. The founders are ambitious, but honest and professional, and very likeable. :)

I think we have two differentiating features:

- We have a strong empirical foundation for our recommendations, both from our daily business and others' whitepapers we have evaluated specifically for the purpose of this product.

- We are taking care to present the material in a way that maximizes the ease-of-use, and thus saves the maximum amount of time for the user. We know first-hand that time is the most precious resource if you're an entrepreneur and founder, and still you feel that you have to do all the important tasks yourself (and often rightly so).

Thank you. :)

I think your marketing is a little bit illogical actually.

This product is meant for ICO founders to help them write their whitepaper themselves, it's mentioned in the first paragraphs.
Most ICOs would just hire a writer to do that for them, no?

Why don't you market this product towards aspiring technical writers? That seems a whole lot more logical to me.

Also, I do think the price is a little bit on the high side, but maybe it's worth it.

Hm if you really are into the projecct you want to develop and support it should be pretty easy to wrtie an whitepaper cause you are the one who knowst the most about your coin. But if you write it for sme else it could get difficult

Writing a novella, or a super-long chain of related essays, which is what a Whitepaper essentially happens to be, isn't quite a piece of cake.  Technical writing that appeals to the masses isn't the strong point for most people, especially those in the technical world who are more at ease communicating with their peers.

A Whitepaper can make or break an ICO launch. So, its plain due diligence for the founders to maximise every opportunity to make their WP shine.

You know what, we have put a lot of thought into this product and how to market it, but we have never considered that. It is definitely an interesting idea, and I will think about it! :)

I could insert a paragraph into the sales page saying that it's useful for professional whitepaper writers too - but would that make a half-baked impression?

That is one of the problems we want to address with the guide: When hiring an outside (or in-house) writer, the technical and business knowledge needs to be transferred from the founders and developers to someone else. And often, this someone doesn't know how to ask the right questions - and even if they do, some of the information still gets lost.

Basically, the way from the founder's or developer's brain through their fingers on the keyboard to the document is shorter than if there is another intermediate (the writer) involved. Not as much "packet loss" that way.

True and true! This pretty much sums up the foundation of our business model (both for our services and the product). :)

Added a paragraph for professional whitepaper writers now. (http://www.intellicore.press/ico-whitepaper-template)

Yes, you really listed here two important factors that greatly influence the writing of white paper. It seems to me that now many unknowing people are writing white paper and this is very bad. It is impossible for people who do not know this sphere to write white paper!

Writing ICO whitepaper is not any hard, i truly think that the team behind the project should write the whitepaper themselves, as they are claiming to be the masterminds and experts about their project, i know the thread poster is promoting his own service here but i think the team should write it in a detailed and professional manner themselves.

True, project owners wont really bother themselves on creating their whitepaper yet there are lots of writers in the market to choose from which they can simply hire someone if they like too and same as you said this would be more logical if these things would really be applied into writers itself which this would really beneficial on their part.Price was just enough in my view.

How hard is it to write an ICO white paper?
 I don't think it's really hard for someone to write an ICO white paper you will only find it hard if you don't know what you are doing
But if you know what you are doing it's simply to put down your idea and share it with your team

That is a valid standpoint - as I said above, the route from brain to paper is shortest if the paper is written by founders and/or developers themselves.

Nope, we are trying to develop a useful product to *replace* our services. :)

Thanks again for the fresh ideas. This again shows how useful third party feedback is when you don't see the wood for the trees anymore with your product. :)

It's painful hard when you don't know what you're writing for your White Paper.
the crypto project developer must know is work and the full function of his project or product in order to show to the public that your project or product development needs more funding and investments.
White Paper is one of the hardest thing to make when you choose to earn high income through crypto market.

That's the thing.
A writer must know his works, his crypto project and his visions in order to write good white paper because it's one of the most important for investor to check whether it's worth for investments and for the risks.
Developers are focusing on their tasks and the main architect must create a good white paper that will help promote the project to the public.

This is kinda silly question.
If you have an idea and a project, then explaining it should be ABC piece of cake for you. If you are really serious about your idea, you will just hire a tech person or a good writer to draft it for 300$.

A good white paper should have the following sections:
one question;
A suggested solution and product description;
A description of token commercialization (token and economic interaction, technical commercialization);
team member
Token Distribution and Prospects
One of the most important parts of the white paper is usually the project team's information, although it is often placed at the end of the document.

And it's often neglected, as if the whitepaper writer ran out of motivation towards the end of the paper.

I don't think it is very difficult at all for anyone that has a reasonable combination of techincal understanding of their own project and the blockchain comunity, and a grasp of how to run a business and pitch the business. Good luck with your enterprise it may not have a big potential market however.

It all boils down to the writer I guess. The better his technical prowess and whitepaper writing abilities are, the easier it'll be. I'd assume it'd be very difficult for a complete noob to write an ICO whitepaper, let alone be taken seriously for even attempting to write it without any technical backgroud.

In fact most people do not read whitepapers

But all these qualities combined in one person are in themselves kind of rare, aren't they?

Thanks. :)

That doesn't seem to be the gist of this thread, though: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2898640.0

sooooo... are you asking me how hard is it to write an ICO whitepaper or are you telling me how to write an ICO whitepaper..

Both, actually. We have launched our guide with the intention of making the whitepaper writing job easier, but in order to improve the product, I'd like to know if you see any difficulties that we haven't recognized yet. For a potential update of the guide.

It is not difficult to write an ICO if you have enough hardware and knowledge in the virtual world. Of course you should have a very good project and a good team for it. My preference is to join an ICO project instead of writing an ICO.

I thought one from the team of project developer who writes the whitepaper. So it seems that they also hire a writer to do it for  them.
Your price is a bit high, but hoping your book guide worth the price.

I think it's very difficult if we never do it. But if we've often done it it must be very easy. Because of all the goals, visions, missions, road maps, token prices, teams are all there and must be written in order and correctly.

The white paper should be written so as to be easily understood to the average person-- it shouldn't use complex jargon or convoluted language. For example, Bitcoin's white page was only 8 pages and was written at a reading comprehension level of 3rd grade. It should be simple and direct.