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I would like to know what criteria you guys looks for to invest in any ICO?

I normally afraid to invest in any ICO if i like the project then i can invest in it when it will launch on any exchange.

Can you guys trow some light on ICO's in details whether it is good to invest in good project's ICO or better to wait for it to launch on any exchange?

I think ICO's highly qualified criteria, vision and mission and the support team in ICO have a fairly mature experience in the blockchain field of course

1. rank of the creator of ICO thread on bitcointalk.org.
2. Information about their team.
3. What is their purpose when they develop their token?
4. How many tokens will they distribute?
5. What is the way they use to promote their ICO?
6. Looks at the review, feedback from investors and the answer of the ICO owner.
7. And read their white paper, roadmap to decide to invest.

As long as the ico will have filled all of requirements to be considered as a good ico and you can try to invest a little bit.
The ico must have a lot of supporters and big community because that gives a lot of impact to the hype and it will be so easy to encourage the more investors.
It should have a small capped.
It must have a proper code to be showed to the investors.
It should have created by a reliable team. 

I attach great importance to the development team of the project, they are experienced and successful will build better project. Besides, there is also practical application of ICO. If the project does not have an application, it can not be successful

One of the important criteria when choosing an investment object is the evaluation of the attachment of the crypto currency to the project itself. Developers should clearly explain the relationship of their project and the new coin to the market. It does not have much time to understand, it's usually clear at once, even for a beginner. The answers to these questions should be obtained: what functions are available on the new project? why would people use it? Is it really necessary to introduce crypto currency? from a financial point of view, the idea is promising?

Please ask yourselves... is the coin I’m investing in secure, fast, scalable, great development team and community? If not... that coin isn’t going anywhere. It’s a pump and dump. Having a small supply raises the price but in reality it will never be a “merchant” coin. Invest in the coin that has the ability to be the coin for commerce. Do your research.. invest in the coin that meets that criteria. Don’t go after the advice of an investor who is sitting on a bag waiting for you to buy up the price before they dump.

1. Read whitepaper
2. Do proper research on their team and partners.
3. Check roadmap
4. I always prefer to invest in project which already have MVP ready.
5. Check their reviews on rating website.

I only see from project concept, ICO target and good they built communication with members. Because of that, mostly I invest on ICO project as last person, I should collect true information not " people says ". ICO result is same until now, chance to success is only 50%. Do what the best and right you can do, experience will give you the best guide.

1 The white paper's plan.
2. Current development progress of the project.
3 whether the marketing team is good enough
4 potential exchanges

For me my criteria to invest in any cryptocurrency is the good quality of the service and at the same time if the company is trusted company to secured my investments or coins in this kind of business.

For me im looking for projects who are in the industry of e-gaming , renewable energy , e-commerce and healthcare . I can only vouch for casino gaming but many Projects having a problem to keep up to date games

When choosing ICO, I rely on several criteria. First I look at the team, the idea, then I read the whitepaper, and after that I look at the product. If all these criteria suit me. I take part in this ICO project.

1 I believe that the project must solve some real problem and be useful to society.
2 Team composition, work experience in similar projects.
3 Distribution of tokens
4 Competitiveness.
5 Clarity and transparency
6 Community
7 MVP

Of course, when choosing a project, I use much more criteria, but this is the main thing that should be paid attention.

My criteria of course the credibility of the company if that is legit and no any bad records that gives them a good reputation. Another thins if they provide consistent income in their all operations.

Number one is the feasibility of the project itself and what their goal is. Second, the team that is managing the project. Those are my top two considerations.

My criteria of good ICO is first, they will need to have a unique project. Otherwise, they won't be able to beat the existing competitor.
The project must have some advisors who can be confirmed about their support on that ICO. And their team should have a real profile to avoid scam.

My creteria for choose ico project very simple..just look at coinschedule.com..and then look their website ..how many token hasbeen sold at their ico token sale.roadmap their project..and how many partner that they have for support their project..look their project for a long term or just concise project

Visit these 3 sites to find an interesting ICO, but not all of this is good ICO, you have to filter more times to get the best ICO.
Tokenmarket.net/ico-calendar
icorating.com
icoalert.com

My standard for ICO is that the project party must have real technology. Both the product and the application require the use of real entities, otherwise it is just a bubble show. Even if the bubble has not arrived, it will be directly destroyed. Therefore, it is recommended that newcomers do not choose ICO risk is very large.

I prefer ICO projects, which solve problems of real life. Kodak is a good example: They provide a blockchain based platform "Kodakone", a marketplace for photos without need of a centralized instance. Also the ICO project in my signature is bringing an innovative solution for buying/selling cars and car sharing with all needed data/apps on blockchain without needed middlesmen.

First of all, I'm looking at the person who designed this project on Bitcointalk, then looking at their idea of how much they want to raise funds and also on the position on the ICO ranking sites.

The most important thing is the value and return of the investment. I will read the white paper carefully before investing. Study their team and partners, the practical application of ICO, if a project has no application, it is not worth investing.

Primary criteria which I consider while investing into any particular ICO are:
- Whitepaper
- Development team background
- Clear roadmap
- Social media interactions by the development team
- Real world use cases of the coin or token
I usually tend to check out these factors before deciding to invest into any particular ICO. Also, I tend to invest more often in a bull market when compared to a bear market due to obvious reasons.

I think you better invest in the ICO`s but you need to choose a good project that will work successfully. When choosing an ICO you need to carefully read the white paper, check the entire project team and then make a decision.

My standard for ICO is that there must be technology, not bluff. I think technology and products are very important for an ICO.

Ico is about to create such a new innovation related to the technology because it was using blockchain but the only important thing about you must consider about how useful the idea of the ico. It will be considered as the main reason to consider an ico as a good ico. Just like those are creatning a fully working product.

I invest in crypto projects that have a technical direction, I am not interested in projects related to real estate, social networks and other areas that do not have in common with crypto.

For now I am looking for a hobby that I understand because then I can really know their product whether it will help or not later. for everyday life

I would do a detailed research on the team and their origin, experience in the field and connections. Then the basic idea of project and how it will be useful to the society in the future. Another point will be the use of token.
The major issue is that the team can change these anytime.  ::)

I am just a new investor but I have a way to make investing easy. I know a great management team and they specialize in managing real projects, no scams and potential projects. Eloncity is an example and now it has been priced up to $ 86 million. In addition, it will be listed on the Houbi trading platform. It made me more confident in the Krypital team.

First of all the project should have a real world purpose to serve the people because if the project doesn't really have a good purpose then there will be no way that the project will survive in the long run and will probably die in a year or two.
It should also have a good hype in the market since a project with good exposure often tends to collect more during the ICO and hence has enough money  for further development of the project.
It should have a good team so that the project doesn't get destroyed because of lack of growth and development.
Last but not the least it must have a good transparency so that the general public and the investors have trust on the team and the project and hence people like us could invest in the ICO.

Let me share my criteria to invest in an ICO, first, I look and read their whitepapers. Whitepapers basically, consist of their mission and vision in the market world. It is very beneficial to understand it and to think about it. Whitepapers will give you enough knowledge on how good an ICO is. Better be patient in spending your time.

There are a lot of things that are going into the decision when I am investing in a project but for me the thing that matters the most is the team that are behind the project. There are a lot of teams that show from the jump that they are not serious with continuining the project with the way they act and that is one of the things I tend to look out for.

Honesty I believe that people that invest now in ICO, the most fearless. Or these are the large funds that invest in the long term. Because in such a market, you can buy an asset cheaper on decentralized exchanges. This doesn't work in all cases, but 90% accurate.

Demand for such project is the defining criteria, because there will be not token value growth without stable demand for services. It is pretty simple, but working.

I pay a lot of attention to the team and the availability of the project. It helps me to avoid investing in fake ICOs, so check the team first.

It is not enough that I just like the project. I will not invest for this reason alone. We must first look at the team and its past achievements. This is one of the main criteria to which I draw attention.

select projects that have reached the target, for example softcaps have been fulfilled, I am sure they are mostly successful, but related to the prices in the market, usually the team has fully surrendered to the market

right, because if there is a little good achievement, the project will be easy to develop,
and it is good to invest because it is possible to succeed.

The first requirement for me is that we must be at bull season. We know that at bull season there is new good projects and if you can participate to them, you can earn good money. Otherwise if you invest at bear market, most probably you lose money like since months. Then if project and team is good, I can invest.

The first thing I see is the project and team these things are an important thing to no before you invest in a ICO.

For the ICO project, I value the overall strength and financial strength of the team, and secondly, there are not many investors who are concerned about the project.

I have the same opinion as you. It's not a good reason to choose a project just because we like it. We need to know about its potency, its team, its past achievement of the team.

even though it is much safer to invest when they leave the exchange, you can get many benefits if you invest in the ICO stage, usually, projects give bonuses and rewards to early adopters, so you have to make a balance between profit and loss, and try to decide if it is worth it in the end.

The ICO has a good and useful concept for the future is a good choice. that brings the concept of blockchain is a good thing to follow in an era like this. especially if it is supported by a team that has a clear background and also trustworthy in carrying out the project. information from the team will be crucial in the election and also for smooth ICO.

All standards are defined by you. I don't think it makes sense. The ICO is full of scammers, and these people are shameful. I am no longer investing in any ICO. The market is now not allowed to invest in ICO, which is already the cryptocurrency market in 2018, not the 2017 market.

I will do a proper study of the project's  whitepaper,i will check the history of the dev,and also check if the team is solid and check the level of their experience when it comes to crypto sphere.

I've been not investing in ICO for a few months, but referring to what I did before, I always see a roadmap and it might be a little unusual I will see a bounty manager because a good bounty manager will have a positive impact on the ICO and others I it never saves too long if in my opinion there are enough profit then I will sell it.

I've never invest in an ICO, but i usually has some criteria to look for a good project, cause i needed that when i wish to join into bounty campaign.
Usually checking the data provided by the project is a must, and tried to verify that all the data is valid.

For now i am look at the team members and try search any success project from this guys.
But in 2018 this strat also not work

My criteria - do not invest in ICO during 2018, or even maybe 2019.

During 2017 I invested in about 15 ICO, because it was profitable and almost safe.

This year, I wanted to invest just in 1 project - HDAC. Because of huge company behind project, but, because of complicated verification process did´t managed to make it ontime.

But, now I am happy about that, because price fall x10, and coins could be easily bought from exchanges

Good team is the main factor. Only team with knowledges and previous experiences could develop high quality project. So forget about whitepaper or advisors. Look at the team always!

ICO is an very risky project and you have to think twice before investing into it and my idea of investing into crypto currencies are very simple as I have already joined one bounty signature campaign and I am a member there and write for them and in return they pay me for what I did for them and I find this method to be very efficient one as this method does not involve any investment and so there is zero percent risk and moreover I am earning a good profit by this method.

Standards are meaningless, and if this can be done according to one plan then everyone will become rich. The current ICO is a risky investment product, and you must take risks when you want to make a profit.

I think that now the biggest part of launched ICOs are overvalued. That's why I neglected to invest in ICO. If you don't want loose money and have some free time try to do bounties.

If the project is really good and you want to invest, try to participate after softcap already assembled, it will protect you and will give confidence that the project will appear and will work. The exchange now projects are not in a hurry to leave and you can buy it at a high price that projects have to be afraid to lose the capitalization and wait for the good time for the listing.

Chance for making good profits in longterm run. Otherwise, there is no point in making an investment, when the entire market is so unstable.

The usual checklist you should include is checking the whitepaper first if the idea is fundable, scalable, and is really needed to be made in a decentralized way. Next thing you must check is the team behind the project. Determine if they have already a good experience in the industry because they will play a great role in the project's success.

For me, that would be the concept of the project, the usage of the project and the last one would be the chance of that project, based on the information that i've got and my intuition about the project.

I have many criterias to invest in an ICO, below, most important to less important
1. Team, clearly information with linkedin links showing education and experiences, must not a new account, twitter personal account with regular active status.
2. Their products, or products in their vision, how it work with blockchain, their token, how it used, is it possible. What they have achieved to date
3. How funds will be used, token allocation.
4. they must have a long term roadmap
5. What experts, communities, ICO listing sites are saying about them. Positive or negative.

Then if all's good i will invest.

First of all, I'm checking the team members, then the idea. Then I will always check did the project get at least Soft Cap and what media is saying about this ICO. And if I like it and see its perspective - I invest in it.

Definitely you need to check the team developer, whitepaper and the marketing team, the team developer is tge key to succeed so its really important to see the vision and the competency of the team, I have joined ICO several times and from my experience, its better to buy it when it already launched on exchanges, usually the predicted ICO price is always higher than when it reach on exchanges

It must have a working app, like Canya coin CAN. https://www.coinspot.com.au/buy/can

There must be a good team behind, that is the basics, and also an idea, which has the place in the market. If these 2 are OK, than it is still a question, what the token metrics is like, and of course, if the project has sufficient support from the community.

This period, one need to be extremely careful before investing in any ICO, the ICO failure rate has increased drastically and very little percentage of them get successful and are able to return profit after listing. Recently a lot of coins dump after managing to get to the exchange, personally I will advice buying at the exchange

for now I don't really believe in ICO, because most of the prices don't match after listing on the exchange.

I have to be patient and wait for the listing on the exchanges. When cheaper, you can buy at a low price.

Not sure about your suggestion because you don't know how much it will worth after being listed on exchange site. Hyped ico will touch more than 5x from the ico price. If you are seeing most of new icos are trading below the ico price  and then you didn't even do a proper analyzation about that. Hyped ico means a lot of support and speculators.

First you need a lot of information about the project. Secondly, the public team. In the third - an interesting product. But I don’t pay much attention to the ratings.

Correctly, the ratings do not pay attention. Many sites sell your rating for money. Still need to look at the country of the project. For example Russian projects attract little money and often are scams. Many do not trust the Russian. Still need to study a road map , because it has basic information about ICO.

There are a lot of scam .. but you should attract your attention to team, information on website, whitepaper and also you can find rating on many resources like ICOdrops, coinschedule, ICObazaar and calculate the average rating of the project.

I do not invest now in new projects on the market because they often turn out to be a scam project, so you can simply lose all your money

depending on the ico that you are investigating or which is interesting in terms of technology, products, ideas and white paper. this is part of your research to conduct research.

The  creteria I consider in investing in ICO are the public team, white paper, and the number of people they want to may sales during their ICO and how Long the project is going to last.

It is not worth investing in any, it is right.  It is always worth looking at what a project is and what its prospects are, and whether the team that will be engaged in it will be able to complete it!

I can start investing in a project only if I see that the project is really very cool, because otherwise I would not even invest in it, because I see that today there are a lot of people who are really constantly creating the same projects. .

First, you need to check if they have not plagiarized the Whitepaper, Legit Team (Use facial recognition website) and RED FLAG for Animated Pictures, Grammars on their website, and How they market it.

But apparently.. ICOs are good for easy money even legit and fake.

When I want to invest in a new ICO first think I do is to make sure that the specific ICO has a good project. I like to invest in strong projects with a future

My criteria is to be totally sure about the project. I'm very worried about innvstment, so I check everthing I can  :) Especially team's background.

Surely this is what's needed to evaluate an ICO, the 5 most important steps to determine which ICO is good or scam. We can not judge the ICO if one of these 5 steps is missing

Project should have strong demand for usage of blockchain technology. Most of ICOs cannot offer you project that really need cryptocurrency and decentralization.

For me there a couple of thing that I have to check out before i even start to think about investing in any ico
First I check to make sure that the product that they are pushing is one that they can actually carry along in the next couple of years
Then I check to make sure that the team are who they say they are
Lastly I check to make sure that they have a solid community of supporters behind them because it is the people that give the coin its value

it is true that with the 5 ways to choose a good ICO, it can be a benefit for all of us to be able to avoid the penny, because there have been a lot of ICO frauds that harm many investors

I have many criterias to invest in ICOs. First of all the project should be promising and reliable. Secondly the team should consist of those who have really good career and are qualified.

My criteria is valuable project with bright vision and product behind.
I also see at tokenometrics, it is essential, you have to get your experience and then find right ICO according to your mind

We all have to be very careful of what to invest in at the moment, including the ICO to invest in. I prefer to invest in a project that is investor friendly, because y there are some who do not care about their investors.

that became determinant is how well you in choosing to invest in ICO. When the ICO could choose right then this result will be able to give a good thing. very strict selective required were conditioned ICO which is currently due to the many projects there are only a few will be able to succeed. even when it is entered in the Exchange, which became the reference fixed background analysis of the ICO.

I had invested only in the ico which have one thing in common, they had a ready product.

For me, a good ICO project would be the project that has an actual working product. and the usability of the created coins that can be acceptable if we need to use it in our daily transaction.

Investing in an ICO comes with it's risk and reward. If you are able to get it right I'm chosing the right ICO, the reward can be mind blowing! I will advice you invest in knowledge and know what to look for when you invest. The maximum return is taking risk not in waiting for comfort zone or perfect situation before you invest!

Aside from being realistic, I think we should also obeserve if the project has a strong demand, meaning it will be needed by huge audience.  Aside from that the idea should be unique not just a copy paste from other existing project.  Dev should also be a real deal.  Meaning their ability and skills surpasses the required talent to realized the project and most of all they must be performing in accordance to law so that future conflict won't happen.

I am very picky with ICO projects and now I am making a deep investigation of every ICO, that I am going to contribute to. I am sure, that an ICO must have a working product, otherwise it won't reach any goals on this market.

I am always reading whitepapers and recommend it for each investor. Because I have invested in so many projects and sorted out at least 50 percent of all projects, because they had an awful whitepaper.

I do not invest in ico projects. It's risky. Ethereum or bitcoin, for investment, are much better suited to any ico. Ethereum and bitcoin are time-tested.

I guess no criteria will save you as of now. Almost all projects are severely suffering due to lack of support from contributors hence unable to manage their plans on executing road maps. Another factor we need to consider here is, price of ethereum and bitcoins. Both are trading at less than 80% compared to last year prices. Hence, this time no criteria will help you as far as I am concerned. Please stay away and watch the markets keenly.

Just start from your own analysis. Take some 3 to 5 ICOs for analysis and then wait for them to hit exchanges. Now check for their trading prices and ICO prices. Now you will realize that you have picked a good or bad one. Keep picking ICOs and go for analyzing and then conclude. You will become a pro-investor for ICOs.

I do see it is also a good strategy like completely avoiding all the ICOs. You may miss some good opportunities out of this but definitely you will never get struck like how I am doing. Yes, I have invested into more than 10 ICOs with strong researches but unfortunately all of them are still in negative earning.

I have now given up on investing in ICO. Usually I observe the white paper and then go to the community of the project to participate in the interaction. I usually don't participate in the investment in projects with few people. I think this is a principle and should not be influenced by other factors.

There lots to be considered since investing to these kind also havr risk. First the legitimacy of the team, second is the background of the project, third is the project itself if it really is relevant to the current world situtation or it suits on the future. Think many times before investing since it is your money on risk if you didn't.

Because I have limited capital so I prefer to buy it after listed in the exchange, besides not having to wait long, the price is also much cheaper than ICO. To avoid or at least to reduce the losses, before buying I always do research with the following criteria;

1. Have low supply
2. Have a large community
3. Fund allocation for teams no more than 10%
4. Have a product that is very useful for many people
5. The team is very active in updates news on social media
6. When first listed in the exchange the price doesn't fall too deep

the concept that I like from ico is about the game platform, because it will definitely get a lot of support and will get success by reaching their target. even before launching to the exchanger, it usually reaches a hard cap.

ICO is a good investment for sure to be followed and assessed by research or analysis. many indicators and also different opinions from everyone in deciding a nice choice of ICO. viewed from the concept and also the teams that run into the main thing to look at. but also many who ignore this because more looking into the amount of allocation and not a good analysis.

Well, for me before you invest in an ICO you better read their white paper. Reading their white paper gives you an idea what is their project all about you can do some research about their project team and how many years they are. Maybe check their background when it comes how they run some projects. Its hard to identify which ICO is better and not.

I am looking at the bigger picture when investing into ICOs : the product idea and the long term vision. After that looking at the team, WP, roadmap and other important details.

Oh, I have my own criterias:
1-KYC. 2 or more members of team must pass KYC.
2-MVP. I think it's important.
3-Soft cap. It's less risky to invest in projects wich have soft
4-Uniqness. The product must be interesting.