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when you chose an ICO, what make you decide?

ICO's usually are most critical stage where we must learn few basic things about it before we can make any progress by investing into them!

I will always make a background check with it in regards with -:

1) Whether company which is offering us ICO is having established products and services?
2) If no products and services then whether they are having the working prototype for the same?
3) If not, then do they at least have the solid blue print of whole plan from nail to hairs? If yes are they ready to share the it publicly and how?
4) If they have working models then whats the proof for it, what is the current business model they are following and how much is their customer base?

These type of question you must get resolved before you can get started with ICO.

If ICO has started from the scratch then I am pretty sure you will need more extensive research over it. I usually dont go for such ICO's.

1. Whitepaper
2. Team and partners research
3.  Roadmap is clear or not
4. Check on reviews website like icodrops and icobench

need more information to decide.
but if I decide to follow ico then the most influential thing is the ico team is professional or not.

Thats right. I do that to..

for optional ways, i also count number of telegram group member.. more number of telegram member is have more chance to get investor to reach soft / hard cap..

Social media news & update from this project is importnt to. Social media is a good platform to promote his project..

It all about how to het get investor & reach target cap..

Me too I one of the basis is the team just reveal theirselves to the public so it wont be anonymous and it will not look like a scam project. But still weather the project looks legit there are still a time that one time you'll be scam, Scammers are everywhere we just need to pick wisely.

I am look the projects not on stat, in the middle of token sale.
In the middle some analitycs can be found on the net

it doesn't matter when you are choosing your ico, but i just try to choose my ico based on my analyzation regarding it. Remember it needs to be done with so many analyzation to determine which is the best ico and then i can take the advantage to invest at the pre-sale to get the more bonus.

I will study whether the team is strong and whether the composition of the team is reasonable. Is there a clear plan for the white paper? Most importantly, there is not a good community to support this project.

The credentials of the team members and their experience either in the chosen project field ot something closely associated. Also looking is the idea original and likely to be usedful to me or others.

I consider three things. First, its technicality such as its purpose, capability, and etc. Second thing, its popularity. I don't invest in ICO who has poor marketing thus poor pupularity cause it is more lilely to fail. Lastly, its review. Whenever I invest in ICO, I always read the feedback for that particular project.

Team from a project I first decided on, I often study the profile of all the team working on the project, because I think the team's greatness is very influential on the development of the project.

I've tested waters with 5+ ICOs... only 1 was successful.

The problem with ICOs, is they list a dev team, roadmap, whitepaper etc. Most of them have no created technology before contributions start.

In my opinion with ICOs you are investing on a complete gamble, a promis that "said" team will eventually produce "X" results.

With my lack of ICOs I have now avoided them altogether.

I prefer to do research in already activated coins and do some research certain things I look for are:

• Interesting whitepaper
• Furturistic technologies
• Current roadmap
• Goals met to date and implementations, judging activity of Development team.
• Then I look into the community.
• If the community is very active and the coin has a great following this is major.

If the development team is constantly active, and the community is massive. I consider it a great investment. DeepOnion is one in particular where the Development team is almost daily updating new additions. Whether updates to wallets, technologies, new websites, whitepapers, additional exchanges.. they seem to have something new added daily. Aside from that they have near 60k followers between all mediums. Their official community forums have just under 14k members registered.

They've just launched their new website https://www.deeponion.org including their new whitepaper v2.0.

DeepOnion Development team never sleeps and the community behind the coin makes sure they Dominate any exchange listings or any sort of promition. Very good investment in my opinion. The price is super low due to users dumping free $onions received through airdrop and VIP rewards, but I can see this coin easily going 10x.. possibly even 100x!

Ico is the investment area of a majority of investors in the crypto currency market. According to my research I would like to invest in finding a successful ico.

when I choose ICO the main thing that I am interested in is the company idea, the idea they offer is a sustainable and real project, I also read and understand their whitepaper, then I pay attention to their Team, whether their team is genuine or fake, then I read the road map them, then I will enter in their telegram group and search for information within the group.

A lot of different elements for sure. How strong the team is, what is their vision/what they are trying to do, how original is their idea aka are there already competitors on the market, the amount of hype surrounding the project (very important factor, especially if you are a flipper), token economics etc.

Actually I will pick some of the ICO to invest based on the technology but I will invest on it when after seeimg how much support that this project will get and how fast the capis reaching because if it doesn't reach the cap values then we are just wasted our time.

When I invest...
I decide to pick an ICO if the platform the thing thatvthey are working on to provide more for people, for people to enchance and get help by a speacific machine on any kind of application that would help the crypto world to evolve.

Now if Iam not investing(just joining bounties) my number 1 option...


1. is to look at the platform.
2. To see if it is near softcap but if not I would go to number 1 and gamble to see the results until it hits softcap.

It is good to read the whitepaper before deciding what ICO to choose.  There are factors to consider too, like who are the team developers, the companies that support them, the distribution of the crowdsale funds and compliance to government regulations.  However the success of an ICO depends on the acceptance of the targeted market to reach its softcap.

Yes, I agree with all of your advice, but I would not hesitate to trust the information that is posted on the sites icodrops and icobench. It seems to me that good reviews on these sites can be bought and there are already a lot of topics on the forum where the lack of reliability of these sites was discussed.

Do you really trust these reviews? I'm pretty new to the ICO world but for me it seems obvious that icobench has many bought opinions!

When i am choosing ICO i will see working product otherwise atleast beta version . Mos tof the project now a days coming up with MVP also they are clearly mentioning the fund raise for blockchain integration . Even i would see the Team and their marketing strategy . More over ICO partners like COSS or KickICO will be more varified ICO's.

Many things to check before deciding on ico investments or participating in ico bounty projects. Among them you should check out the white papers, road maps, website presence, and project benefits. Next can check the development team, to what extent they are experienced in the world of crypto currency. After everything is checked, you can make your best decision.

Generally seeking best ICO is very challenging now a days as most of them are coming out as scam project and a way to raise the funds around here. I think choosing ICO right from the start is not a good idea. I mean we should always checkout what happened in the private sale. This could be perfect link for success if the private sale comes out as success. This tells us they already have popularity amongst the whale investors and thus project has got some insight. Rest of the stuff includes reading of their whitepaper, roadmaps etc but usually they are just piece of papers so we couldn't really make out conclusion from that.

There's a lot of ways on choosing an ICO, actually we have different ways on choosing an ICO just like me I do have a criteria on choosing an ICO in where am i going to invest here are some of the things I'm looking for:

• Check the Background of the team (If the team didn't give info about each member of the team such as name previous projects, background, etc. There's a possibility that they will just run away with your money if they didn't give info's about their team.)
• Read their whitepaper and look if it's really worth to invest with, their concept, etc. (This is important to know what the project is all about.)
• Check the Social media accounts, If you find it very interesting presentable. (Join their telegram group in order to be updated.)
• Check the Projects professionalism (How they handle users, control frauds, etc.)
• Follow their Roadmap and other technical details and see if they meet it on time.
• Look for the projects community and see if the community is active.
• Look for special proof and validation.
• Do your own research about the project such as review about the projects or you can also check the projects ANN thread to see comments who's agree/disagree or the communities idea about the project because ANN threads is like an open forum where you can ask, give insights, etc.

Well this list just came from my own thread which can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3196383.msg33152916#msg33152916 (You can find a lot of links their including different scam strategies so you will be aware of and other ways to avoid being scam)

Choosing an ICO really takes time, you have to make a lot of research about the project that you want to participate or invest in. Like reviewing of their whitepaper if they have the project that is having a great potential, and identifying the members behind the team if they are credible members and not fabricated only.

There are a lot of stuff that makes me believe on a project, but one of the things that i most like about them is the transparency and the community that is behind that project, that is special.

There are a lot of projects, so you should always follow trends to choose good one and not to miss it. Now Ambit Mining is live, it will be live for the next 2 days, so I would suggest to take a look!

the first that I see is the whitepaper. because we can know more information about the concept, team, token, etc. after that, we will see the roadmap. because we can see the plan of the project with this and can judge whether the project has a good prospect or not in the future. a good ico must have a professional team and can be reliable.

I think if the project has potential for the future and look at the team behind it and read its whitepaper if it is interesting and I believe I will participate with that ico

I choose an ICO if it has own blockchain, good concept of coin and the team behind is real if I verified them of linkedin, twitter, and facebook including the advisors. Because the community will definitely like the project if they meet the needs of the investors.

It's hard to choose a good ICO, to be able to find it you have to go deeper into what makes you believe in the Project, learn more in the white paper and see how big the community supports the project.

Recently found an excellent article on the forum, it is called "How to invest in ICO more safely"(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2822896.msg28918031#msg28918031). She helps me with the analysis of projects

For me, the most important thing in choosing an ICO is an interesting idea of the project and the availability of a working version of the product. Very often, the presence of a strong, professional team of developers makes you choose an ICO.