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What do you think is a better definition of success in an ICO? The amount it raises or whether the token is ultimately listed on an exchange?

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3163849 "Are Blockchain Crowdsales the New 'Gold Rush'? Success Determinants of Initial Coin Offerings"

This paper argues eventual trading status is more important. 

Depending on your position now ..
If you are an investor, Progress prices are more important than exchange listings.
But if your position, is a prize hunter, then listing exchange is the most expected.
that is my opinion.

Many have a rumor about the fact that 90% of ICO is scam, fraud. On the wave of excitement, many ICO campaigns collected millions of dollars, after which the founders dissolved in the fog. Therefore, it is important to understand and correctly assess the potential and risks of the project. Important criteria ICO, consisting of five indicators:
The team;
Availability of a working business model;
The structure of the ICO;
Communication;
Whitepaper.
Each ICO project is evaluated on all five points, so if there are no questions on all 5, then it can be said that it is successful!

I think that the ICO is successful when collecting a heavy cap, I think it is one of the best indicators. Also, a successful project must have many supporters and benefit people.

Perhaps for most people, liquidity is the most important thing.
In my opinion, a good team is the key.
A good roadmap determines whether the project is capable of being implemented.

Successful ICO is useful idea, skilled team and perfect PRO. Unfortunately, there are too little really successful ICO at this time.

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I think it should be both but it all comes down to communication and progress. As long as they are proactive about partnerships, listings, and dev, that's always a good sign. One project lately that has been doing that is Havven. Great project that is really pushing forward. https://havven.io/

Hitting up hardcap and listed on exchanges is indeed considered to be a successful ICO but if we do really mean or dig in deeper the true meaning of success then it would matter on how the project is doing, if it totally followed its project plans or road map on makingg such development.If it does then i would say this would really be a legitimate one because there are lots of coins in the market seems like to forget on what they do promised when they are still on funding state.

Even exchange listing shouldn't be utmost thing at this moment but an exchange with good volume.


To me, I won't make a dichotomy but to simply say that a successful ico is the one that keeps to its promises, from dates, exchanges to be listed on in their road map. Keeping to everything in the white paper in general and not to vary it with time and lying to investors.

When choosing an ICO project, I am guided by two main parameters. This is the project team and the technical side of the project. In the first case, you need to pay attention to: the publicity of team members, the presence of a portfolio of team members and the openness of team members, their willingness to communicate. In the second case, you need to evaluate:
1. The quality of the ideas. It is preferable to choose projects whose creators can already present to the public any model or prototype of their development by the time of the ICO. On the basis of this it is possible to assess the potential of the idea and the feasibility of its further development. If the authors of the project are scattered in beautiful promises, have a bright presentation and nothing more, then such projects are better to avoid. The risk of investing in startups is already very high, but in the absence of concrete evidence that the developers are really capable of something, it increases many times.
2. Project development plan (so-called"road map"). The founders of the startup should specify its prospects, development strategy, specific goals, indicating the terms of their achievement and the steps that will be taken for this.
3. Project source code. If you are going to invest in the development of a fairly large amount, it is useful to check its source code. You can bring in a special person for this. Usually all projects place their codes in the public domain on Github'e.
4. White Paper. It contains a description of the project, investment proposal and other information.

An important factor is the amount.
When choosing ICO, before investing in it, I always look first at the composition of the team, rating...

Successful ICO for me is a project that allows to join as much investors as possible like if was in Fusion. It's better when a project doesn't have any presale or private sale bonuses, or they are locked for several months. And also successful ICO should plan their listings on good exchanges, the best example of a good marketing is LibraCredit.

Pretty sensitive subject. Sometimes downright bad projects gathered softcap going to the exchange and collect their "x's", but was later lost while receiving an excellent income for the team and for the few investors. But such projects do not achieve great goals. And it happens so, amazing and unique projects completely lose their value when they enter the stock exchange and only after the final launch of the project and the appearance of the product, they gain momentum and fix the value of the token on the market. It's all very random.

Well, firstly the Idea, how much it is interesting to the market and investors,then what team is implementing this project,its pridyduschy experience,projects that they have implemented,so to speak white paper,and of course generally the opportunity to date technically do something about h they say,as can technically it is not yet possible.

I think that ico will be successful only when the project is will be needed by society. so my choice fell on the project PAVOCOIN, if you have not heard about it, then I advise you to get acquainted and you will understand why I think so.

1.Team
2. Roadmap
3. Product (MVP)
Last investment Welltrado.

of course sales. If all tokens are sold out, then the ICO can be considered a success. yes at least at least until hardcap.

I see many successful ICOs that are factoring it all. An example of the promotion of ICO itself. The vision and mission of an ICO fore how. An investor certainly sees it all in order for him to invest in a truly potential ICO. Behind it all the TEAM of the ICO is very influential. Because if the person is not experienced in the field would be one of the reasons the ICO will fail. And many more of course that affect the successful ICO.

To launch a successful ICO, you will need to build trust among your audience, and have a clear understanding of some risks dealing with people’s money! Even if ICOs fall in a regulatory grey area, make sure you understand the risks and the continuous evolution of the regulations. Listing clearly all major team members, developers, and advisors, with their profile, will help your community and early adopters to assess the credibility and likelihood of success of your project. Being able to showcase a working product to your audience is by far the best scenario to gain traction and build trust within future buyers. Also, share your White Paper and a roadmap.

The success of an ICO cannot be determined by the amount it raises or listing on exchanges, the most important factor is how much the project of that ICO is widespread among the community means that how many users have adopted the product & have started utilizing it, that ICO offers. Another important factor is its partnership with other giant projects. Then when userbase grows ultimately the price will also rise of the token as there will be more demand from the community. Then when this happens, most exchanges will gladly welcome to list their token on their exchanges.

the success of an ICO can be seen from the sales. the ICO that successful is if the ICO sales successfully get maximum results. after that, we can see the price of the token. if the price of tokens in the market is high then it can be said that the ICO is successful.

There's this ICO going on for an Australian company called BlockGrain.io They’re aiming to automate the supply chain with Grain and later on Fruit/Vegetables/Wool. The sale has started.

BlockGrain’s Bounty worth a look http://[Suspicious link removed]/BlockGrain-Bounty-Promotion

If you are inverster of ICO, firsly you should the idea. if the idea is usefull and then check the development and other team. There are alot of ico bench website. I am looking project's website donmains buy time.

Who cares when market down.

I think a successful ICO is the one that can fulfill it's target and roadmap, it will be better if the ico can attract big investors or big companies to cooperate, and for most of the investors the most important that the value that the developer mention in the beginning can be reach in a short time or few months after the ico launched

To begin with, a good project should have a "fresh" idea, which will have no competitors. The project team (especially well-known experts in the world) is also very important. And of course the site should be properly designed.

I think there are five necessary indicators.
team
business model
ICO framework
community
white paper
Many ICOs are overly touted for their application, depending on your judgment.

Successful ICOs always have the same things in common, which is a good product and a strong and dedicated community of investors behind it and with these, there is no way that an ico will not be successful. Once people realize that a coin has a product that can be useful for years to come then they invest in a bid to make the project better and if you do not have this then your project will not be successful

The presence of a portfolio of team members of the project name, when created, the results achieved. If the team experts have a positive experience in the field of their development or a sphere close to it, this is a plus for the project.

The successful ico will have determined by the return of the price after it is listed on the exchange site, The development progress, how useful its product to the community and many more. A proper development means more investor will come. If it's a good project and big exchange site will be automatically listed it.

I think it defines the success of ICO due to the progress and also it will be listed in the exchange. Not that one also but the number of investors matter most because they will be the one who will pay for it. The platform of the project will eventually a way for the investors to choose what is good of the project. 

Tannerchum, I totally agree with you. The amount of investors is probably the single best determinant for long-term success of a project. If there are 100,000 investors each willing to give $10 for access to the eventual product, I think its for more likely to succeed than 10 investors who each invested $100,000 only to later try to sell their tokens at a higher price.

It would be great to see more projects implement a "maximum" amount per investor.

The ideai behind the project is paramount, then the team behind the project, then another important thing is the ability for the ico to convince the people and build a very strong community are the major things I have seen made an ico successful. This factors will propel the project to reach pass its softcap and mayb eventually hits hardcap.

An ICOs is defined success if it reaches the target of sale the tokens, it commonly said as pre-sale. If the pre-sale of the tokens reaches the target even more, the ICOs can be defined as successful. Other term is reaches the softcap. That my personal understanding to define success ICOs. 

Successful ICO must have a good and promising concept, supported by the community. This will lead to its popularity. Also, analysis of the team is very important that is why It is required to look into CV of each team member and if they have had successful ICOs before. Hope this will help you!

And who will need project that have raised low funds and\or have a bad idea? From what trader should repelled in decision-making and analysis then? In my opinion should be both. Without collected funds and good ideas(that are connected), the coin will only be fit for a one-time pump.

having a quality product so that it can achieve a successful sale. It was for me a successful ICO. by such means, the team running the task well and certainly will provide good impact also on the selling value of the products they have for the future.

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personally, the success of an ICO is marked by many investors who join it. besides, the ICO that success can be seen from the price of tokens in the exchange. the higher prices of token make the project can be said successful. usually, a successful project will remain crowded although the ICO is finished.

There are so many things but mostly is the team,idea,whitepaper,MVP.And also usecase for future.There are so many good ones where they sell only to accredited investors and we cant invest but there are some good ones where we can invest like AITHEON

Everyone is entitled to their opinion here though, we have several signs of recognizing a successful ICO. From my own opinion, reaching the hard cap during the crowdsale is a great sign, listing successfully on good exchanges and finally doing multiple times from the ICO price on exchanges.

A successful ICO is one that actually produces the product it promises to make and make back its investors

I believe that the most important guarantee for the success of the project is its development team. Other factors also affect the success of the Ico. But the people who create the project is the most important thing.

If the end result of the product is well established in the market and represents this product-the coin will be strong and will be able to further growth this is the main definition of a successful campaign. But this coin will need to be constantly maintained and improved in the main product for continuous growth!!

honestly, think it depends on how much and how fast the fund raised into the ICO, because that terms can make the team and investor of the ICO optimists that projects will be running as expected. Faster the tokensale closed then im sure the projects will follow as in the roadmap

ICO should be a way to provide opportunities and simplicity to create and build projects that benefit everyone. the nature and criteria of man himself is indeed different. let alone in cryptocurrency. everything is possible. It is none other of us who must be wiser in making decisions

A successful ICO is an ICO that reaches softcap / hardcap in its crowdsale, gets listed in a reputable exchange (not etherdelta or forkdelta) and manages to trade above ICO price so that investors are in profit.

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I think, that it is not that hard to raise a lot of money in an ICO anymore, but to be succesful in the long term, get into nice exhanges, improving the product according to the roadmap, that makes in ICO succesful.

To me, what defines a successful ico is how well developed it is, the effort of the manager and management team to coordinate the participants that help promote the project, how much people accept and believe in the project stability, the white paper, the roadmap, the exchange where it is listed and the rating and how much they keep their promise to participants.

Many factors are crucial to the success of an ICO and I highlight the quality of the project and if it solves any problem, the competence and experience of the team, a good marketing and a hardcap that is not exaggeratedly high.

Thank you for your simple question that is the great Dilemma of our crypto-enthusiast community and that it will have several opinions from every point of view.
I believe that an ICO is successful when it offers its fully functional project at least in the medium term and that the Token price does not lose its price and value.

Very good answer! When "Availability of a working business model" is missing; Many times we see the following panorama:
 "Token price": If these ICO are following their RoadMap, why the price of their Tokens goes down after the ICO? When exchange? The expected exchange that will cause the token to be recognized by the trading community based on its price and value and if the exchange does not arrive, what increases the price of the token and only remains far from what was expected. What about the investors of these ICO? Hold for a long time. What is the waiting time to properly say that the ICO was a total success? And to say: I have joined an excellent project and I am a happy Token holder of "X" because my investment was worth it.

Successful ICOs are when they have a great team and great ideas. It's like a newly formed company, it needs a good team to handle things quickly and the idea must be different to attract investors.
Investors need the difference and the work experience of a startup group. This is a valuable foundation to make the ICO project successful.

Hitting their hard cap and getting listed on a good exchange are a good starting point. Then being able to meet key roadmap targets, decent trade volume and producing the product would be a successful ICO to me. Unfortunately not many are able to complete all these things and as 2018 continues on I feel i'm seeing less and less of them.

From the companies point of view a successful ICO is one where their Hardcap is reached within the timescale of the main sale. Also, you could argue that if they complete the sale without any server outages or phishing sites stealing from investors this would be the ultimate.

I think both. Because without one them the ico could not reach success. For example, without raised in crowdsale the ico token could not list in the market or exchange. And also if the ico raised much but its not listed in exchange because of team or other reason, we can not say its success ico. So both of them is reference and can not be separated.

i can say if you give all the benefits to your investors. and listing to a good exchanger in the market. creating a good build up of your team, white paper, strategies and so on. be always fair to your investors so both can gain more better future.

In my opinion, a good ICO project can bring me the return of X5.
Then the ICO project that allows me to make money is a good project. ;D

When in the sale of the token it reaches its hardcap, it is a good sign that the token is good for the demand of the investor. The next thing you must see to it, that is the ICO good for a short term? or its more good in a longer term. You must also refer to read its whitepaper. All the important key information and its roadmap are on the whitelist.

So if you have two projects, which would you consider more successful??

Project  A).
ICO price, = $1.00
Total raised = $1million
Exchange listed and tokens trade at ~$5 for 6 months
Then the project fails and dies, tokens become worthless

Project B)
ICO price = $1.00
Total raised = $1million
Exchange listed and tokens trade at ~$1 forever,
The project launches and becomes extremely well adopted.

The success of the project is determined by the team and the idea. Now a lot of similar projects that duplicate each other. As a result, after the ICO, the price of their tokens falls twice on the exchange.

actually although the concept offered is the same, as long as the team can mix with something new of course it can still make the token of the project has a competitive edge

Ya I agree with you, tokens can be successful with similar concepts. Its like saying just because Mcdonalds already exists, burger king won't be successful.

in any case, the real prospects of the project depend primarily on the team and the relevance of such an idea in society. If investors deem it necessary, then the funds will be enough to realize the idea.

The Token is ultimately listed on the stock exchange, I think so. Also successful ICOs usually have a good audience.

Ico successful or not it depends on so many factor . Like the project concept idea, Dev team , Market hype and demand ,etc. Most of the successful ico listed in good exchanges that is also the fact of ico coin price up down .

The answer to the OP is dependent on what side to consider, the side of the company who launched the ICO or the side of the investors who invested in the company's ICO.

If it will be on the side of the company then a successful ICO is an ICO where the company raised their minimum amount goal and nothing more. Goals are set for a reason, if it is met then it's a success.

On the side of the investors, the success is when a good profit was made. Investors invest because they want to gain and if they gained based from their expectation then their investment is a win.

I agree most successful ICOs have a large number investors, the exception of course is the super successful ones like BAT which sold out in 30 seconds from huge investors.

Do you have any idea of an easy way to tell how many people invested in an ICO? The only way I know of is counting the initial transfers of the tokens on the blockchain :/ 

If the token has features, that we really need, then it will become successful. Of course, only when they are also marketing the ICO correctly to the wide audience.

The ICO is successful if every stakeholder is happy. The team get their money, the investors make some profit and the community gets the product and services that were promised.