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Hello, I am a holder and investor. I invest in several ICOs, some of which I earn, some not, or scam. I am curious to ask the investors in the forum, what criteria do you rate an ICO based on?

Some are:

People's feedback on the project
Transparency of the team
Active communication with the community
Good roadmap and development

You said that you already invest in several ICO's, may we know what is your own criteria?

- The roadmap (I have read, however I do not very believe it, because it is simply a promise from the dev team - there is no guarantee)
- The DEV team (I know some devs who have developed some very successful ICOs, and I believe in this criterion most)
- Their community (facebook, twitter, telegram,... )
I would like to hear the opinions of others too, since I am not a professional investor. I just started, and also spent a lot of money with the scam project.

-Telegram group
-Name of the ICO
-Website
-Logo of the Token
-Roadmap
-Team

And the most important ..... my INSTINCT

After  a lot of ICO's are scam so I hope your money will be safe.

First of all, the team is important to me and if they are transparent and very responsive to the questions it means that they are valuing their investors.

Next is the their platform or project itself, if they are just another project that aims almost nothing then they deserve to be ignored.

Well I do look at
- How far has the project advanced? 
Since as an outside investor you don’t get any direct insight into the project, you have to take the publicly available materials as a surrogate marker of the current stage of the project.
If you find an ICO by a company that already has a working product or service, you can consider yourself lucky. These companies have proven that they can deliver, their team has demonstrated that they can work together without killing each other, and thus their chances of further succeeding after the ICO are higher than those of teams with just an idea or a prototype.
- Does the team have a track record?
As mentioned above, previous success is not a guarantee for past success, but somewhat of a soft predictor. So, look at the team’s profiles on the website and check if they have been (provably) involved in prior successes in the crypto world, and if they have solid achievements in other fields, like academia or entrepreneurship.
- the whitepaper
However, the real substance of a whitepaper is in the technical, business and investment details. How do their smart contracts work? What is their technological basis, are they ERC-20 compatible? How are they integrated into the business logic? If the whitepaper doesn’t convincingly explain why the business needs the Blockchain and a token, this does not bode well for the future of the project.
- Observe well, its your money if it doesn't feel right research more and more. Ask questions Facebook, twitter, Bitcointalk

As I know there are so many things need to check when you wanna know about an ICO project like social network account, WP, Roadmap, dev team and main idea of project. Beside I also check traffic of ICO website to see how famous it is :)). Beside, I also need to check number of ETH or USD they collected in their private or presale. After all if everything is fine then I'll spend my money to invest :). It's a little bit complicated, right. ;D

   Knowing the project very well,it's purpose and roadmap. Read the white paper and better to know the people holding the project. Another thing I consider if they are active in telegram group,they are answering your question quickly and also my instinct which i felt that the ICO is good and become successful.  But you know sometimes even we know that the ICO project is good to invest but at the end the are failed. Maybe we can't avoid it because i believe the success of every ICO is not just depend on the project itself but it depends on the acceptance of the community which is the demand.

The team matters very well. Information about team members should be readily available as this will inform you about the kind of people who you are trusting your money into their care.

I think we need this criteria to rate ICO:
1. The team composition.
2. The project announcement on the Bitcointalk.org thread.
3. Evaluating the stage of the project.
4. The size of the community and its activity.
5. The token distribution.
6. Evaluating the white paper.

Easy to do,
1.See inovation of project. (make sense or no, New things or a development)
2.Check about Team core, and advices.
3.Road map, how the project working.
4.See the best offers, check the interested of cummunity(country's important).
5.An information about alocations of tokens.

For me the best ICO to invest is, an ICO that is having a great and outstanding platform that could be very useful to the holders that can leads the project to success, and of course a great and credible team members, because some ICO's are only having a fabricated team members and don't exist in the real world.

First of all it is necessary to study the project itself. It is desirable that it is based on a blockchain. Then you need to learn the command. Their experience and connections in the world. Where used to work. What heights have been achieved. And only after that start investing.

The team and transparent  is very important for me.Last week, My friend tell me about scidex, that time i am little bit confuse, i will join or not? but after joining their team were solid and transparent also. So, team is important. :)

Choosing a successful ICO project is not as easy as expected, of course, to find out some key points for the absence of fraud, then you simply analyze an ICO project that is very interested in you by looking at a good team without the presence of their personal data fraud, by reading whitepaper well because an impostor is so meticulous to commit his deception by meeting the criteria of good ICO criteria as well, the ICO would be very good I think the use of coins / tokens is very useful for current technology needs, because it is potentially very good in any case not just form of investment course, marketing and promotion that determine the success of the project, so be a little careful in making decisions.

This is an issue that has been handled in multiple threads and I think there is no consensus on this, I say this time as a founding member of an ICO, the most important thing is the team, but not what you can see in Linkedin , there you have only some professional information, and I know many people without title or sometimes without even Linkedin, excellent in their jobs. and in the end, none of these sources is going to tell you in reality if it is an honest person and is oriented to follow the plan or otherwise save it and not leave others adrift.

In my case, I have included the project in multiple evaluation platforms of ICOs and the truth is that none really seems to me honest, while better located or punctuated you see a project, it only means that I pay more, I even have a case, where they published us for free, only to catalog SCAM and ask us for money to take away that situation.

As I said, the team is the key, get close to the team, talk to them directly, question the plans and try to get involved to see if they allow it, so that you invest in a project where they do not want you if not your money, the idea is that your money does something more than make someone rich.

Finally we must understand that we will always make the assessment from our knowledge, and sometimes the objective escapes this, as I always say, our ICO for example does not make notable advances in the technical, but in the commercial, financial and marketing, I understand that people who identify with this, see it very quickly, but those who technically evaluate the project may not. is there, if your knowledge is technical that you must enter, because there you can contribute.

If you get support from them you need to show the proof and say that they have appreciate and helped you much. Fact most of the ICO project not helping the investors. If the project is really worthful they do not hesitate to pay for the signature campaign participants in BTC.

Most of the projects does not come to pay the money in BTC and help the participants and get the promotion. If they worry to pay for promotion they are not successful team to grow with mate.

we need to look at the project team first and research about them because most if the scam ICO will run with fake profile and then you need to look at the technology of the project if it is unique from available crypto currency then chance of getting successful is high.There are some site are just rating the ICOs based on some stuffs so you may also look that ratings also before investing.

OptiToken gonna moon hard on open in 2 weeks

Recently I joined ICO for the purpose to earn some extra money. For me I rate ICO based on its purpose, road map, dev team, transparency, its approachable community and their telegram group. The project should also be useful to the people or holders and has deep connection with blockchain

Current market is not down so act wisely.

hype, team, product, token metrics. Its very individual because some projects are very successful without product, but with good marketmaking!

I think we need to first analyze their team and their project, to study the white paper and their long-term plans for the company.

Good team
Interesting idea
Adequate expectations (Soft Cap)

The team and their plans for their project will be the main, further white paper and community activities.

There are such a significant number of things need to check when you need to think around an ICO project like whitepaper, Roadmap, team behind bounty and main idea of project.First of all,  the team is more important and on the off chance that they are straightforward and extremely receptive to the questions..Next is the project itself.

It's a classical question. And the main one in one time. U gotta check for their feedback, SM info, site, ideology and so on.

First is, the team must be legitimate and they must not be using fake people and photos because most of the ICOs of today do that. Photoshop can do almost anything possible so be careful. There are several sites and Apps that can help you identify if the photos they are using are photoshopped or not.
Second is, I look at how realistic the Softcap and Hardcap their asking is to their project roadmap. They can't ask for a large amount of money if they are simply doing simple and small projects. That is just a "Give me your money" ICO. However, if the project also needs a ton of money and the team is asking for a very small amount of softcap / hardcap without a way to fund the project in the near future, well that's also a way of getting into investor's comfort zone by making a simple impression of "we are not here to grab your money". The thing is, the soft/hardcap must always be proportional and just the right amount that the project needs.
Third, I look at the whitepaper and the Roadmap, see what the project can offer to the community. See if it will be really helpful or is there another project thats doing what they are promising and does not need another one on the community.

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I base my judgement on ICOs on a number of factors, principally on the teams integrity and expertise, the the community size, social media activities,presence of MVP.

Adequate expectation of reaching soft cap is also critical.It is always a good idea to see how much donations is going into the contract address.It helps to also verify claims of how much has been raised.

To choose good ICO projects to get involved in, you have to look at their project and see if:

1. the ICO has an experienced team;
2. the project is good and will have success, because it's a real project related to blockchain technology and with a sustainable tokenomics.

Looking at the project as a whole and looking at the team behind it, is very important in my opinion.

There are many interesting projects to check out and others not, so it's important to choose wisely.

If I can give you guys my opinion, I discovered an exciting ICO that is very interesting: RAWG.

Check out this great article by Sergey Ulankin, RAWG's Editor-in-Chief, where he explains what has been done so far and what will be the future updates:

https://medium.com/rawg/wp-bits-5-vision-and-current-state-69127bfbeb2a (https://medium.com/rawg/wp-bits-5-vision-and-current-state-69127bfbeb2a)

The ICO will start in a short period and they are at the moment in pre-ICO phase. This is the ICO site: https://token.rawg.io (https://token.rawg.io)/. It's a video game discovery platform that converts your skills into goods and services (the site is already working, with more than 57,000 games in the database) and, which is very interesting, they have already reached the soft cap.

Have a look and get some information while doing your own research!

Another interesting point: RAWG has already secured $5m USD, halfway to hard cap of $10m!

I think here it is necessary to conduct a serious check on many parameters, which are already indicated by commentators earlier. The check should be carried out by yourself. But of course many do not have time for this. Therefore, so many projects are scam. Personally I do not want to spend much time on this, that is why I believe in www.menlo.one. The creators promise to find fake projects.

Good point that you expose, except that when looking at the page, it is not the proposal to search for SCAM in the network (I apologize if I did not understand the point, I may have lost myself in the translation), but in any case, the question that I find more illustrative in this case is, how did you evaluate this project, what points did you find? in favor, and which ones against?

(This is a very good opportunity for you to even publicize it, but let us all know how someone evaluates an ICO and from there, draw conclusions or objections to the way to evaluate)

To choose ICO investment projects you need to have the experience to avoid encountering ICO scam projects. I often rely on Token Sale as well as hype to evaluate potential ICO projects. Or maybe refer to Social about the potential of that project. A potential ICOS project will help you make more money when you invest.

Choosing ICOs for investment is not difficult, but finding potential ICOs is really difficult and requires a lot of experience. Instead of looking for a potential ICO project, you can choose and look for potential managers like amazix, deadley, cheus, atriz and then participate in ICO projects they manage.

Really looking for a potential ico is a very difficult thing at the moment we should be able to filter out the many ico projects that are running and follow ico Projects that are managed by bounty managers like amazix, deadley, cheus, atriz is a good choice to reduce the risk of a scam ico.

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I watch the ratings of the project on the main sites - icodrops, icobench. You can also see whether the project complements the media personality. It is desirable that the team was as public as possible.

I rate them based on several criterias. Transparency, who are behind the project, do they have a company, etc.

I evaluate ico through: team, actuality of the product, community and partners are available

Confidence attracts investments.
Look for an ICO that has transparency and credibility (esp in members of the team).
There should also be a good customer response team.
A working product is important.
What are they launching? And how are they going about it?
Commitments also boosts the project, it is not compulsory.

most good ico platforms about trades and wallets are blockchain based, there are jugs about crypto games, online sales, but to choose a good ico you can see their rating in media that provide ico info in detail.

Telegram Group, ICO name, website, token logo, team

Hopefully we avoid the ico scam

As I know there are many things to check when you want to know about ICO projects like network accounts, WP, Street Map, social world. There I also checked the ICO website to see how famous Smiley, I also need to check the amount of ETH or USD they collect in private or presale. After all checked maybe we just found out that everything will be fine and then from that I will spend money to invest Smiley. ICO project if I think it is not so easy to learn and follow for new workers.

the team behind the project, whether the team has experience and expertise in the field or not.
the project itself, is it possible that the existing project will be implemented and adopted en masse? essentially what the project is useful in the real world.
have a sharing or review of the benefits of a sensible and organized project.

And one more thing is "LUCK"  ;D ;D ;D

For me the first is the mission vision of the project, Then I will see their website and read their whitepaper, If interesting then I will invest there,

For me I think its the project is widely accepted by the community, I'm following the feedback of the people about the certain ICO i'm looking to invest. If I see a good response from people then it would likely to succeed, also I'm looking the use-case of the project if it the product would click to investors, right now I'm looking to invest on VTOS, OPP, and menlo.one.

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I have to say, all three are good choices, but I think Menlo One is on an entirely different level because of its unique project and I can 100% say that the team working on it is 101% legit.

Some ICO keep there promises why some doesn't. Most ICO price fall after the distribution of token to the participants and most ICO falls immediately after the token distribution this is not good for some of ICO like this

Of course, in order to choose an ICO you need to spend a lot of time searching.I pay attention to the whitepaper as it is written, that it is interesting, constructive.Sometimes you read about the project and can't understand the essence.As a rule, in such cases, I start to ask in the telegram group that I do not clear.And if the admins there also can not say anything I just refuse to participate in this ICO

First of all, this ICO must have a detailed and tidy white paper. Second, the project must let our investors contact the team (telephone, telegraph, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), because most of my investment will be through direct communication with their team to decide whether to buy the product!

team transparency: because this is a data-driven project so openness of team members is needed, one member is not open social jealousy happens. team responsiveness every ico always include telegram as a communication medium between managers or admin when there is a problem with a good response campaign participants will make ico success.
ico ico road map, ico will start when and until ico ksi ends because all the campaign participants must expect reward from their hard work.
allocation of funds, how much funds will be allocated for bounty hunters. as many bounty hunters increasingly look to the ico's success. Forgive me

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A good ICO is also a good project. Realizable, useful, logical. It should host them. At the same time, the team should be good.

I mostly look for the real community and investors' interest and quality of the team. Business are is also very important for the project to make their ICO successful.

The only solution not be scammed is that never buying any ICO projects! I personally reject to participate new ICOs! Reason of that:

1- Scammers
2- Overrated more expensiveness then on exchange cheaper price

Yeap those reasons make me wait and see how project will go and its price too. Sorry dear developers but you should find another way to promote your projects rather than ICO-ISO etc.

Crypto world should redeem off both:

A- ICOs
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