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I know that most of todays traders are here just to make a quick buck, they dont care about the project, or the idea behind the project, they just want "PUUUPM" and "MOOOON". And with all the scam ICO's that we had in the past( my personal favorite BitConneeeeect) people have lost faith in ICO's. But still new ICO's and new ideas are being published every day, I've seen on some projects that i'm following that they reached their soft or hardcap, but what triggers my mind is: Who is investing in those ICO's, what is the one thing that lures the todays investors into investing in a certain project?

I don’t know how a newbie learns so much in a few period of time
But I think you need to take a chill pill
And make decisions for yourself
Neglect other people’s opinion just take few lessons from it

The correct answer should be ico traders if you don't know about that and i suggest you join in the santiment channel discussion and there was a lot of people are talking about ico and which is ico that will give a uge potential a big return instantly. I have been following this case from a few years ago.

One thing you should understand is the fact whether in a bears or bulls market condition, there will still be investors in projects, and these are the guys that keep the space alive. They have their various strategies put in place for their investments. The fact that Bitconnect, a ponzi scheme and ultimately a scam was your best project says a lot. Could be that what lures the current people is what lured you into bitconnect at the time despite all the warnings.

Blame the bonuses as early participants of an ICO. I have participated in some ICO some that I were backed by several people who are in the cryptosphere for a long time and have gained reputation already. If you have gone on youtube and watch some people there who reviews ICO, you got to be checking why they said something good  about an ICO that you haven't read in the forum.  I don't have much ETH but it kept me alive after sending some to invest to  a project like EOS. Who doesn't?

Why does my BTCT rank matter ? You got some merit and you think you're better than me?

Could you please provide me with the link, i'm really interested in the whole concept of tokenizing an idea, and how to "lure" people to invest and help someone achieve something big

But besides the bonuses, what are people looking for when they want to invest in an ICO,I see that you are also wearing their signature, what is acctually a semi-decentralized exchange?

I'm kinda sceptic about youtube, people get paid to promote ICO's and projects, they can share the idea of the project, but its paid advertizing actually, and people are ready to do anything for money

This world has 7 billion people so do you think that few projects per day will not get enough investors? In this world the best form of money making is not doing usiness it is the investment where we don't do much work other than research so lot of people are ready to invest if they think that project value will be more but now a days lot of projects were worth none so they are not reaching the cap value.

Everybody takes part in the ICO process, today it is possible, but the most important thing that has confused many people lately is the KYC process, because there are a lot of situations when the documents ended up on the black market

Are you sure that the softcap is real? I myself am not sure of that, many projects cannot prove their wallets, when someone asks for proof of their achievements, always with the same reasons about the security or privacy of investors. I myself have lost trust in most projects,



currently "falsifying achievement is a new way in the ICO"  ::) ::)

I think many people are still interested in ICO's. One colleague of mine invested in Node Power ICO and he says he still has faith that he can make it big in that particular company. Well i would normally say good luck because many bounty hunters are not getting any luck in bounties lately.

it is true, your opinion about that, but if you look at the whole case, the opposite case is also much done by fraudulent projects, one time the project how many participants have been harmed

So, why do you think he is a newbie in crypto world? Just see his rank in this forum. Almost potential investors in this forum, but not ALL.


I think you should call them "investors". Traders earn their profits from trading, not in investing.


As I know, almost really potential projects have their existing partners, which is the companies or organizations. And these partners ready to invest a part or all tokens which are sold in pre-sale or private sale, even helps this ICO reach the soft cap instantly. Because it will ensure this project will be implemented. In addtion to attract other investors because this ICO has already reached the soft cap.

But about the not-potential projects, I think there will be investors who believe in these projects and invest in it. Maybe it has a long time to reach the soft cap or even fail.

About what is thing that attract investors? I do not know because everyone has their mind. Personally, I will notice their team + advisors and the solutions.

Those people that are interested in the project, relatives of the owner, those people that believe in the project that will boom someday. Those were the people that invests in their projects.

Most of the icos now are facing touvh times to raise their target amount of funds but as the market conditions improve and overall market becomes bullish we will see icos picking up again too, so it is just a matter of time, icos are still very popular among investors to make multifold profits in good market.

Maybe they are not newbies at all? they can be an alt account of a legendary or a hero one! Just saying something that can be possible in the forum, So they can join in multiple bounty or signature campaign But I really think that rankings don't really matter anyone can sure learn and research Cryptocurrency and invest in them right? what if that newbie is richer than you? He could always invest in an ICO whatever he wants, Just look at the facts that anything can really happen in this forum and don't lead yourself in judging others about their rank in the forum because they might know a lot than what you think.

Venture capitals actually invest in ICO's and they dump tokens on public sale investors.

If you get 3x 5x ROI after your ico investments, you would also participate in icos. I was earning that much in the first quarter of this year, however now market is shit ao do icos. At the moment is not good for participating an ico but I will continue invest in them later.

In ICO, those who plan to make money for a long time invest. Today, if you want to make money fast, then ICO is not for you. Recently, I have not seen a single project that would grow in a short period of time.

there are lots of interesting things from each project, starting from the rewards they offer up to some reviews conducted by some trusted forums, who won't be interested? ICO which already has a good rating, will surely get more attention

Everyone that are investing in an ico would be people who are still have  a faith in cryptocurrency, and also they knew how to properly choose which project that are good to invest on.

There are 2 options.
1. Ppl that looking to make fast money
2. Ppl that have faith in the project and aiming for long term gains

one thing should we know that in this world, there are many investors. they believe that cryptocurrency will be the future, they even dont care about losing money at this time but they just care about future, they make future by "burning" their money

Investment on cryptocurrencies is done by the any crypto enthusiast or ICO and bounty hunter. This is how most of the project getting success and some of the projects are really missed and now they are in the peak value like how bitcon was in early days and now.
Then as bounty hunter I use to check the white paper and project goal by looking what they are going to do for.

They simply make the money on choosing the good ICO so plan yourself while picking the ICO projects and then invest please.

Yeah, many people here to make a quick buck, that's the point, right? It's not many people I think, but all of us. And maybe you think there will not be anyone who wants to join ICO because the condition is not good now, but, this condition will not happen forever, dude. So, it's normal if there are still people who believe then invest in a potential ICO.

The condition of investing in ICO's are not good for a lot of investors, because most of ICO project are becoming scam or lower price than ICO price. Honestly I'm not an ICO investor but I'm a bounty hunter and altcoins holder, that's why I take this opportunity to buy crypto in a cheap price.

in this case there are 3 types of investors, namely long-term investors and short-term investors, one is an impromptu investor, for ordinary long-term investors they are not too concerned with prices because from the beginning they only pay attention to the future of the project, and for their ordinary short-term investors when coin entered exchange will definitely be sold even if they get a little profit, and the last is the impromptu investor they are interested in investing ico because of the recommendations of friends around or tempted by bonuses or the achievement of a big ico.

You should know that we are not the same and we have different view about the market. There are many people in the industry who are still investing in ICO, the gain from some and lose in some.

I invest in ICO's. I'm not good at day-trading and I don't have the time to sit in front of a screen the whole day. So I rather invest in some good ICO's and wait for my returns.

Though I haven't invested much in bear market... Still there are some ICO's which can give at least 2x even in a bear market. You just gotta do your research right.

There are still some people who choose to be blind towards the realities of ICO's. Smart investors are looking towards STO's that offer more secure and reliable offerings.

Those who are not afraid of losing their money are investing in ICO, as investing in the early stages is always risky. But attracts investors ICO because in the case of a successful investment it is important to get a big profit. Probably it is very gambling investors.

Investors who are investing into ICOs are called venture investors - investors who are investing into startups, they try to choose the project at the beginning which is very promising and has a potential to grow to the moon :).

Not all traders are here for a quick buck. There are position traders who trades in a stable altcoin and they are not into ICO pump and dump shitcoins. Those who invest on a scam ICO are usually a newbie who get hyped by the marketing strategy of the scam project. But there are experience investors who take risk on a legit ICO that they search and investigate before investing.

I'd say there are two types of investors. The ones that are in it for a fast buck by buying at the pre-sale (huge discount) and dumping early, or there are ones that really believe in it and buy at ICO for the long term investment.

I am sure that many people like to make risky investments in ICO. They hope that they have a chance to earn money to get rich quick. This makes investors look for good ICO projects and risk investing. I wish these investors good luck in their business.

Among the main reasons why investors invest in ICO is speculation . Obviously, people want to make money fast. Nevertheless, 52% - for supporting the project.

Hi. I think that investors want to get the maximum benefit. investors do not know everything about bounty campaigns, and believe in the inflated popularity of ICO.

People who wants to make big profits in short time, usually invested in the ICO.

It's been a while since I bought into an ICO, the last one was RCC Reality flash and that has been in development ever since, the decent ones will take time but there are so many scams about it is hard to see through all the mud.

People will always invest in them in the hope of finding that golden nugget.

I am not investing in ICOs this year,the market is down and it is very difficult to find a good project that gives you profit.But when I see the first signs of recovery I will definitely invest in a few ICOs.

Merited.
I love good questions like this.

1. I dont think they will start the ICO without someone telling them that one will invest with them. A good sum of money might already be in process before they even start.

2. Forums. Not like this forum. They organize an event and invite people with connections in crypto currencies or knows what they are investing with.

3. Advertising and this forum. You think it is all just to pay signature campaigners and social media? No, they are taking the risk that one bounty hunter might also invest and it does work for so many times.
I did it already. First, was just a bounty hunter then got hooked with their project and now I am still holding that token.

If the project is really interesting and promising, investors will not have to wait long. I also invest, but not in everything. By and large, I draw my own conclusions, but I also listen to the opinion of my friends. And only after that I invest.People from different countries of the world can know about any ICO. And if the project has something to offer to people, anyone who has $ 100 can be an investor. That's cool.

majority of people are investing in ico just to make a quick flip of it,  x2- x3 they all dump that's why majority of those ico doesn't last more than a week on exchange before dumping below ico price

I think that today a lot of people invest in ICO because it is risky but it is possible to gain profit. I am going to take part in ICO with time. I think that this is the best way now for many people who are interested in crypto

Traders = Investors and this is just a basic stuff. Once you have bought a specific coin then consider yourself to be an investor either you are an investor on the time when its still on project sale or who bought coins when it is on exchangers.Its just a similar thing yet they do have the same goal on which buying low and sell high. Whats the reason on why still on making investment even we are on a bad market condition? Its all about profits and risking out money for the sake of that even we do know the risk is gradually increasing.

We have to accept that we saw many new investors in 2017. I mean not the real investors who really know the about crypto world just to make money dive blindly. And the set of that type investors decreases after the downtrend after 2017. Who believe in crypto those investors want to support the good project. If we take a look then in 2017 every project getting the good investments but in 2018 only quality project getting investments. We need quality not the quantity  ;)

I joined some ICOs in the past, I can join again in the future. In early participation in the ICO, the bonus rate allows you to buy more tokens cheaper. It's actually a good way to earn more.

Why should we think over about who invest in the ICO? I think that everyone that invests in ICO is those who are really interested in the ICO, how see the prospects, and who believe that the ICo is legit. What we must do is ensuring that the ICO that we are following or participating is real enough with all term and elements that we must analyze, including their team members.

I think investors invest not because of the project but the profit that they might get if the company is doing well in the market. Since ICOS are crowdfuded this funds are used to build and to run the company.

Experienced investors have already learned to identify good projects. Therefore, if the project has some kind of perspective and competent team, nothing will prevent him to collect the necessary amount. I believe that there are still people who believe in ICO.

I believe that people are still guided by the desire to make money, despite this bear market, in my opinion, they can still make a lot of money, of course, there are still quite a few people who are still here for the technology, personally I prefer a combination of both so i invest in promising projects that can also leave me some profit.

You know, investors are different who you ask and why they invest money here. That's a very difficult question. First is the gold rush. The desire to earn more attracts people. The second many investors cannot take money to the bank because they are illegally mined. In this way, they are simply capable of turning millions of dollars into legal ones.

Still the same mindset and investors who have earned enough with ICOs.

They are rolling their money with the hope of that money would keep on growing with those ICOs. But opposite thing is happening and that is the prices of those tokens are going down under its ICO price. I never invested to ICO and will never be but todays ICO, most of them are failure.

As a matter of fact the best thing to make some profit in these situations of market is the ICOs. Because, ICOs come to the market as a new life and listing in a good exchange can make its price 10-15x like QKC.

Many projects use the help of various investment funds and at the expense of their funds they manage to raise money. But I believe that the ICO sphere will continue to exist, because there are still people who believe in it and participate in it.

Maybe one thing that captivates investors to join ico in a project is the concept of the project that seems good in the future and useful so maybe they hope that if the project is successful it will affect the tokens they buy when ico, the rest of it might just want to make a profit instant from ico.

I confess that I mainly invest only in order to earn and increase my capital, but there are projects in which I invest because the project has good goals, I can not only earn but also help the world, @swachhcoin. The project will pay people for their trash. At the moment there is a 10% bonus, you can buy coins by the end of October. I advise you to see the project.

Seriously? Of all project icos that you know of, bitconnect is the best example you can come up with? That's shallow bruh.

Like it or not people still invest in icos. Like you said yourself, most people you know of are only interested in MOON and LAMBO. Clearly these investors have more than that in mind and that's why they put money in it. On another note, not all icos get investors. I know of a particular one some months ago which garnered just $50 from the entire token sale and thus, had to close up the project.

A lot of the "dumb money" has left the crypto space and you see less "PUUUPM" and MOOOON". Good ICO's are still raising money but the dumb ideas that would have hit their soft cap last year are no longer able to. The people you still see investing are the ones that understand that they are investing in a startup and that thinking this investment will mature before the company has a chance to execute their roadmap is unrealistic.

After making a lot of mistakes last year, people became smarter, I’m not talking about large investors right now, they always care about their assets, ordinary people now think before investing in a project with a dubious idea.

That is really good question. Even i cant understand that issue. In that market there are too many good coins with incredible low prices.. So i think now i cant see any reason to investing icos and investing that dangerous place for now. In bull we can think about that but now i cant understand.

I totally agree about your opinion about trader, but there is nothing wrong with that, that is what called as trading. So for the main question, "who is investing?", believe it or not there are real investors in there, and there are many of them. I know some of them and most of the times, I ask for their mentoring to decide which ICO should I buy. Most of the time they consider three things before buying an ICO, the first one if the Team, as we know that many ICOs today has fake team, that is the one that we should avoid. The second one is looking at the product, does their product have a real use case to solve real problem in real world. And the last one is the partnership and its validity, if they have such a great partner then there are no doubt we should buy their ICO.

Then this time is the best time to invest in the crypto, because the market was going down and we can buy more and more coin dude, the bearish market will make ico will be so difficult to attract peculators because they have known that as a high risk potential investment and this bearish trend should be the reason

Yeah you said that, there are the same people ho pump and MOOON and than just dump it, you can see that a lot of ICO's now do only a private round and they already hit the hardcap

Not all people you see here investing just for a quick buck. Yes there are people like that I am sure but the problem lies that there are still long term investors, smart ones.

I personally invest in something for long term if I ever invest in it, I do not expect a quick buck, as long as the development team is active I will be still holding, I won't cash out until I see the development team staying still for a long time, only than I cash out from it.

Now if I see a new ICO with good team and trying to achieve something important for me than I would definitely invest into it and wait for it to mature into something good.

People who continue investing on dip is the people that gain a lot on that feild. Investing ico now a days is really hard and really risky, because there are so many scam ico on the feild and I believe that if we are not really expert on choosing ICO we can maybe fall into a great scam.

Investments usually doing is old people the market ICO. New part investors don't come yet. The main criteria for choose its backgrounder team and having a valid product.

I think in ico invest today beginners. who do not really know how to analyze and predict the market. after all, it is easier to invest in ico)

Nowadays, do not invest in ICO, because the ICO is risky now, we can lose a lot of capital if we invest in ICO. Besides ICO, there are some scams in the market.

There are so many people who take part in the ICO project, because they can profit from the success of the ICO project in the crypto market, but due to the many ICO projects that appear every day and some of them are scams, making investors less and making ICO difficult to reach their targets.

I still am investing in ICOs but I sure am very picky.  It's difficult to spot scams now that scammers are getting more sophisticated,  but one project I just bought into is ModernChain.  I checked them out and they are legit,  they have their ICO now and even reached soft cap before ICO.  They also have an MVP on ground.  Seems pretty legit to me.

There are still a lot of good projects ongoing in the ICO sector. They attract investment even from the mainstream investors. But then, I am surprised that some of the less promising ICOs are also successful in attracting investment.

I also have that question. I think most of investors are private investors or investing organizations. There kind of investors should invest on those projects with more knowledge about those projects. So I believe the projects  that reached softcap or hardcap have huge possibilities to success  on future.

It is quite unfortunate sometimes to see a project with good potentials to suffer set back due to the activities of traders. Sometimes, i see the official telegram groups of some ICOs being bombarded with all sort of FUD and sometimes FOMO,  just to pump and dump,which is why sometimes, admin restricts people from talking about trade or discussing on token price on such group.

I will even say that since last year, ordinary people have become an experts in ICO and now they are very careful about investing in new projects. this is the reason why now many campaigns cannot reach a soft cup

i ask that question every day to my friends investing in ico means u loose 90 percent of your money most of them even if not scam and i have no answer why some invest in them

Yeah there are tons of new ICOs everyday. I'm also wondering who invests in them. Moooost of them end up decreasing 3x-4x-5x when they listed on exchanges. Waiting for them to be listed on exchanges and investing in them if they can survive seems much more logical to me these days.

several times I chatted with people who often invest in the ICO and on average they saw more in the current trend conditions, they didn't really care about clear plans for ICOs who were followed and more interested in ICOs with low hardcap.

they only care about profit and can be sold quickly. Conversely, they are not reactive with ICOs that have large sales targets because in reality, whatever happens will always end with a delay in the distribution-consistency of prices in the exchange market, and other reasons from developers that make investors not patient if they are required to wait long even half a year later.

Last year it was easy - you were almost guaranteed to make a nice profit from investing into an ICO. Basically, the only way to lose money was if the developers turned out to be scammers and just took off with the collected funds. Other than that, x5 or more your investment was pretty usual stuff.

Now, on the other hand, times have changed. A lot of ICOs don't even reach their softcap and with this the ICO has pretty much failed. But there still are some nice ICOs and ideas really worth trying to bring into life. People still pick out some better projects that really have the potential to push through and come out as winners :)

What you need to understand is that there will always be people who will invest in ICOs notwithstanding the state of the market. There are varying motivations for investing in ICOs for each individuals. This is why a project will be tagged an obvious scam, yet people will still invest the such projects.

From what I know, before an ICO starts, there is someone rich backing it up. ICO's has its way of finding big sponsors. I believe that about 50% of the sold coins were coming from certain groups or individuals that believed in the project. Although majority of them ended up being a scam, a lot of investors are taking risk because of the earning opportunity it can provide. Also, a lot of investor learned their lesson and never invest on ICO's because of those scams.

If you hope to get an answer that something like that, that philanthropists and patrons invest in ICO, then it is not so. In ICO, ordinary people who are eager to make a profit invest, this applies to both large and small investors.

The answer to who is investing in ICO projects at now can only be investors in cryptocurrency. ICO traders will carefully analyze each ICO project they will invest in, and after they find a potential project, they will begin the investment process from the pre-ICO phase until the project stops the Token Sale.

There's still a lot of ICO investors among us some of these are those who made huge gain in the past ICO that they've invested and they want to continue to make a profit, but some ICO are faking their volume to make it look that investors are coming but in fact they are just the one investing on it.

The investors in the icos project is from the trading investor also or the bounty hunters invest as itself where they she/he participate to supprot the project to got earn after the icos end

Actually, with the way things have been these past few months, it makes no sense investing in any ico without real substance. This is because its almost certain that once these projects get listed on an exchange, the price often crashes by over 60% from the ICO price making it almost impossible for investors to get anything out of their investments. The strategy is to wait and buy at a far cheaper rate once it gets listed on the exchanges because it certainly will dump massively. People who invest in ICOs nowadays actually have no idea of the market or they are just plain naive. Investing in ICOs isn't lucrative and shouldn't be embarked upon at the moment,  Probably until the markets return to normal but for now, it's a no go....

To be honest, most of the people over here invest in an ICO just for making some quick profit out of it. If they see a project with huge potential, they also see a hefty amount of profit with it. Thus, with the hope of making huge profit they end up investing on those ICO. Again, there are some people who are genuinely interest on those project and thus invests on the ICO to help the developers.

The ICOs frenzy is over. People hardly invest in ICOs this days. They rather wait for the project to be fully launched and proceed on to buy from the exchanges. That is why the ICOs find it difficult to even reach their softcap.

to be honest, I myself cannot understand who is now investing because I think that it is not profitable to invest my money now on the market

I don't know how a stupid thread with stupid tittle like this even can get Merit :)). Of course investors are investing in ICO projects :)). What do you wanna know more? Name or full identity of each investors or anything else? Everyone whom invest in ICO project also called investors. That's all.

Often, investors are large companies or a group of people who have a large amount of money. There are projects that ordinary people can often invest in. Such projects are related to the implementation of blockchain in real life.

I'm not sure about "who" the investors are. But, I'm sure that every investor that invests in an ICO is the one who cares about the promising technology and future investments. And of course, they will think whether the ICO is worthy and profitable or not in the future. I think that the investors do believe that the coins that they invest in the iCO will make profits for them. That's why many more investors are entered in such ICOs every day.

People all around the world invest in New ICO's everyday. The reason being is if the project has a decent marketing team behind it then it will reach more investors. With a good marketer you gain slots and get to speak about your project if you pre register at a blockchain conference. That is where they gain most of their investors. I would say 90% of investors for project meet at some type of blockchain confrence and are presented a new project. Then decide to invest.  

Most major investors like to meet a team firsthand before investing. I used to invest in ICO's but I was scammed one to many times so now i just do twitter bounties and signature campaigns. But without investors and only bounty hunters a project would never succeed. As they would have zero funds. So somewhere people are investing

investors in addition to seeing the results then also look at the project from the functionality or usability. for example, a lot of interest was about technology. In addition to the results obtained, bus technology that is carried by the ICO also certainly be great expectations can be created and use for the future. Indeed because too many scams make sense of trust in the investment decline. But investors still see that ICO investment potential is still great to be taken.

ICO is a bad choice at this time as most ICO projects are now scams and it is difficult to identify good projects. I think in the past few months, investors are experiencing a lot of liquidity issues that make them feel more depressed. I do not believe in new ICO projects because it is very risky in the bear market

Although I don't know how the ICO project attracts other investors, I know why it appeals to me!
1. Project innovation
2. Team strength (including reputation)
3. Partner
4. Good sales channels

That should be the trust that the investors give to the project. Hoping that the project will fruit in the future.
Rather than just doubting that all project were bad, Those investors put their trust on a project after doing many research. IMO.

they where probably VC / INSTITUTION investor who got in cheaper than anyone knows they pump huge money on there then they will just unload it on market to common people

I think that most people who once earned money on ICO and now continue to take part in investing, also bounty hunters who work in the market are the main investors. Now there are very few new investors.

I think the one thing why people invest into ICOs is the potential ROI (return on investment). It is a speculation
that the idea behind a project is strong enough to ensure and bring profit for the investment.

After scrolling through the pages of this thread I was very disappointed. "Who actually invests in ICO's" and the answers all had to do with wether you wanted short or long term goals and how big your risk tolerance is. If deep down those are the criteria with which you decide which project to back, then you yourself are to blame for the situation we are in. Investing in an ICO should mean that you truly share a project's vision and by investing you show your support and that you're here to stay until it's turned into reality. What happened to all the geeks wanting to invest in ICO's in order to change the world? If everyone cashed out whenever they got a few good % on their investment then propably every project would have been abandoned half way. Projects like hinounou, where a decentralized healthcare ecosystem is accessible to our elders, or mfchain that wants to act like the backbone of cryptocurrency payments, are not projects that you cash out of when a chance for some good returns comes up but when their dream turns into reality.  

P.S. If that happens then the returns are always way higher too!

Some ICOs have agreements with investment funds, putting a name of known fund on your website as early investor will bring some hype. However the number of successfull ICOs is way different from the last year number.

Last year we saw a lot of small invesors fromm all over the world. Now ICO soft and even hard cap filled by funds or big investors....

At the moment, the market for ICO projects is going through hard times, as investors are in anticipation of market recovery and price increases. But some projects carry out ICO even in such conditions, if they have guarantees from any funds, large companies that are interested in the product (technology) that the project offers.

Actually we are already the real investors in this project that is we have keep working for the benefit of the ICO. The more positive feedback we shared on the ICO into the community the more will people will believe into the company as well so make a good promotional advertisement.

ICO is invested by people who want to get a good profit. People who can afford to lose some money in the short term, but get more in a couple of years.

In ICO, I invest money from all segments of the population, people of different professions and having different incomes. You can be a simple housewife or a venerable investor, but all of them are connected by the fact that they believe in blockchain and cryptocurrency.

As I see, many ICOs ask for too much money to be invested in them. For usual people, it is impossible. Take, for instance, Telegram - they were waiting for really great investors. Now, I do not deal with such projects.

It's more about future value propositions now which involves presenting a high quality protocol / platform / app that has a unique use case that can actually achieve some adoption rather than expecting to raise funds from little more than a whitepaper

More venture capital is entering the ICO market with greater expectations yet there has been a steady decline in retail commitment due to the reasons you mention

Not all has already lost faith in ICOs. Some still believe that there are still promising ICOs out there despite of scam ICOs emerging. If they can see it having great potential and has good foundation, then they can be assured that their investment is in good hands.

It all depends on the project. In some projects are investing purely private individuals, as for large investors it is not interesting and only an enthusiast is willing to give them their money.

People will always invest. The goal-to preserve and multiply-has not gone away. Those who entered earlier and lost a lot, just invest now less and more carefully. And new investors are already finding new projects, life goes on, growth will be required.

Investors are always here looking for a better opportunity and a good project to invest with their money, some are losing their investment in a scam ICOs but they never stop because they trust crypto.

Investing in ICO projects, we must also distinguish the situation, some suitable for long-term investment, some are only suitable for short-term speculation, and will receive it when it is good.

I have also mentioned that the majority of the new ICOs welcome big investors only. Yes, you can also join the project, but you need for it a large sum of money. I do not think that many guys can cope with it.

well some invest due to they only need to hit 1 ICO big time and that will turn everything for them, but that days are over for now. back then the ico craze was huge and all those hype " Whitepaper project " always reach Hard cap even tho they only have is paper. now you need to stick on those who can really thrive even in this situations

I think that at the moment projects receive a very small part of investments from private players. It seems to me that only projects funded by institutional investors will be success now. The players are scared. Fear of losing investment is much higher than the desire to earn. But this is my opinion ...

Normally, the investors that are making their money with it. Maybe bounty hunters as well, after they have earned enough funds to invest. But right now, we are facing the problem of no investment at all.

I guess 2018 year is a year of big invest funds and venture capitalists. Investors with a little sum of funds don't want to invest during these bad market conditions.

Last year investing at ICOs is my main job because back at the time ICOs is actually profitable and also mining. but now both had gone low profits this year but hopefully we get more next year.

The ICO projects so far, despite some difficulties in ICO, have the opportunity to find quite a few large investors. About half of the coins sold came from groups of people or individuals who believed in the full implementation of the project. Many investors run the risk of earning huge amounts of money. Many investors have learned from the mistakes of their experience and do not invest in questionable ICOs.

Basically every ICO project has a major financier supporting the project product. Most of the coins sold are for certain people who believe in the successful outcome of the project promotion. This moment is very important for the start of the project, because the majority of small investors are drawn not for a good product, but for a stream of investment money - where this flow is greater, small investors are investing there.

If you look at 2017, everyone who could have invested in ICO, there were both bounty hunters and those who call themselves a real investor today, of course, this is really cool if you have a wonderful experience and you understand how to invest correctly.

The people that want to make money. You might look at it that there surely will not be a lot of people who are investing in icos but that is wrong, there are a lot of people who are investing money into icos and it is not that they do not understand the risks, but it is that they understand that if you are ever going to make money then you have to be willing to take risks

We must be careful sometimes because it is the new modus of the scam ico this days. They are self investing on the project and probably reached the softcap to lure more of the investors. Because many investors find good ico if they found out that the sofcap was been met.

We lost a lot on altcoins this year

Need to sell a crypto now?

Excellent answer.!

what do you think is the best, way to connect with theses groups of investors?

Crypto funds, insiders and private investors were investing to get the tokens at cheaper prices, but everything is different now, and nobody wants to invest in ICOs before the market stabilizes.

I think most of the investors in ICO's are those newbies also because as we can see last year the value of any currencies are going crazy that more people gets interested to invest in any currency that they can invest their money. And most of the investors now are basically not aware of how to deal with the market that they can invest with their money.

What is a long time?  Most traditional investments take at least 5 years to mature. Come to think about it Bitcoin was about $500 US 5 years ago.

Probably now there are a very small number of investors who would really like to take part in investing, because the very terrible behavior of the market forces people not to invest now because there are simply no conditions.

Investors have lost trust in the ICO's. Moreover, the price of tokens of most projects fell below their price at the ICO stage. Too many cases when projects were fraud. Or when projects raised funds from investors, they stopped doing the project. Investors are not protected by law. People no longer want to invest in white paper and promises of projects. But reliable projects find their investors.

A lot of pools, I participated in one pool , they collect money and send funds to the ico, for this they provide the best conditions , but of course I think people with bounty participate

talking about the problem ico nowadays many bounty hunters are afraid to join ico because it is very difficult to find ico bounties who can benefit from us following the ico

In 2017 and the beginning of 2018, investing in ICO projects was popular and making a profit, so many people bought coins at ICO. But if we talk about the current state of the ICO project market, there is no demand and investing in projects is not relevant.

Everyone does... Unfortunately, due to the state of the market, a lot of persons have gone quiet on ICO investments which is completely understandable. However, if the project is right, I see no reason why people wouldn't invest. Lots of projects are still turning in decent investment amounts on their projects. The idea is, research on the would be project and ensure it has a future and a working concept. Lastly, invest only what you can afford to lose. That way, you have a certain level of security over what you stand to gain or lose.

I guess under current conditions, people investing in ICO projects have poor understanding of cryptocurrencies and hoping to get quick profits. This is facilitated by the army of bounty hunters, which continues to advertise ICO projects in all social networks and thematic sites.

Cryptocurrency investing has an easy entry and the nature of cryptocurrency is global without any hinderance and I am sure that is the way it is suppose to be! I do invest in quality ICO project so also are many crypto enthusiast. There is a big market out tgere and if a project properly target an investing audience, they will get them!

With lower and bad situation of bitcoin and altcoin right now maybe its impossible for investor want to joined at ICO investment, just few people want to make investment at ICO project because they have afraid with bad price an ICO after listing at exchange market.

Vey interesting question.
There is still somebody invest in ICO, i think this mad guys or its stolen funds

I think investors are the ones first who would buy and invest in ico, but there are also bounty hunters who buys and invest if only they know that the ico they inveat has potential of becomming successful and not a fraud or scam ico.

There are always good projects, there are just a few of them. There are always professional investors who will always find an opportunity to earn.

Last year, those platform coin projects are the ones that made big ICO's. I will not name them.
Now, people are looking for real world solutions or businesses, that are beyond the blockchain.
To simplify, we need real businesses that will integrate the blockchain tech into their ecosystem.

most of the bounty workers invest in ico they are the ones who do lot of research in ico background and ratings so first investors for ico are bounty workers rest social media users

The samething that I asked myself sometimes.  Who are the one investing into icos? Most of them have lose significant values and I could remember coins and tokens that were above $0.2 but when there are listed got done below 0.00002 or some no buyers at all.

Of course those who invest in ICO are traders who understand investment by buying and participating in the ICO to be able to get a lot of profits.

You're right about things been hard nowadays concerning find the genuine ICOs which people can really benefit and I can assure either that with the help of people like ICOs Ethics which him and team are fishing out the wrong project in other to make the forum safe from fraud ICOs.

Anytime I invest in an ICO, it is definitely not because of the profit I can make from it but rather I am investing in the ICO because of the idea project. I invest in unique projects that have potential of changing something that already exists.

i invest in icos, but i do my best not to go into just any so called ico, since a lot of them are a scam.. so i do my research, i follow the team the community, see what the project is about and if it will do an impact on the world outside the crypto people..but thats just me

You're partly correct but I don't think that "poor understanding of cryptos" is valid, considering how many ICO-s still give tremendous profits.
I'm sure many ICO participants know what they're doing.

Those rich people don't totally investing in every ico, they just want to donate some money to reach the minimum amount need of the project so it will become sucessful.

Of course analysis.The more experienced a person is in cryptography, the easier it is for him to determine the necessary and promising project.There are also closed investment clubs in which the success of the ICO is guaranteed.Believe in these clubs a lot of potential investors

With ETH price under 100$, investing in ICOs was more attracting than ever. I ended up with a MFX Masternode for roughly 850$ last month. I guess everyone must do his own research after all.

There are a lot of  people who are investing in icos because there are a lot of people out there who realize that they stand to make a lot of money if the coin ends up doing well. It is the reason why despite the high number of scams that we are dealing with right now in the market there are people who are still investing in icos because no matter what, there is always the possibility of making money from it

The OP is not a newbie anymore, this owner probably has many accounts since you won't be able to learn that much so quickly, but if he does then I'll congratulate him, and yes I am still investing in legitimate ICOs, I have earned some profit out of the investments I've made in the past years and I will still continue doing my work.

that's why you have to have knowledge if you want to benefit in this industry. this is not a problem "PUUUPM" and "MOOOON"

if you do with nothing and blindly of course losses will not be able to avoid.

I doubt that now you can make a big profit from an investment in ICO. It seems to me that such investments are very unprofitable now.

In the current conditions there are indeed many people who are no longer interested in investing in ico. this happened because their trust was lost. because of the many frauds that occur today, people avoid investing in ico

in my opinion, ICO offers instant benefits when they enter the exchange. that is an attraction to investors, because at the same time coin prices are stagnant

I feel that you have an aversion to ICOS campaigns. I asked where you came from and should return to that place. People like us are participating in the ICOS campaigns you mentioned.

For now only few people do invest in cryptocurrency for it was being tagged as 90% of the projects are scam. This is because there is no clear regulations and security for the investors that has been passed by any of the governments of the countries around the world. Just hoping one day cryptocurrency will going to change its ways to be legally adapted and accepted just like stock market exchange.

This world has more than 7 billion people now so its not a miracle that some hundrends of them were investing on ICOs,if people got scammed by ICOs early may still invest on new if they found promising and legit.But there is an important thing not all the projects were reaching soft cp and hard cap as they were mentioned this is a strategy to attract more people to invest on their project by giving fake credits.

around 95% I believe is unprofitable , the ico now is not the best investment.
but a lot of people invest I also invest in 2017, usually people collected money in one place and sent to the project so they were given more tokens

I believe that the ICO market is always a useful and sought-after destination for investors. Despite the temporary problems in the work of this market, it will still develop further. There will always be interested investors who will invest their money in promising projects.

I think that ICO campaigns involve a variety of people. However I would not recommend beginners to try to make money by investing in ICO campaigns. It is much better to start with proven cryptocurrencies like Ethereum or Bitcoin.

I agree with you - those investors, who want to pump much money into projects, are able to select really brilliant ones. That's why cool teams and outstanding ideas will always be appreciated!

I am fully confident that investments in the ICO market remain one of the most useful and sought-after areas, despite some difficulties now. I know that both private investors and large companies work here. Personally, I also make investments in ICO with good development potential.

Beginners ? Are you sure ? Because, how we can expect a beginner to be having all the skill to analyze a project so that he will finalize his decisions on investments. I never recommend that. ICOs suitable only for some what experienced people because only those people are able to find good project as it is more important not loosing our capital than multiplying your capital.

I think most of the investors on ICOs now are from private investors. i dont think peoples nowadays would dare to invest in ICOs anymore because of the frauds are mostly common on ICOs now. So most of ICOs now depend on private investors to be succeed and to make their project successful now. For me i just stay away from ICOs cause the market are still ill and better to keep safe from scammers out there.

Well, basically, there's enough reason to invest in an ICO, it depends on how the investor perceive the potential of a project, sometimes based on his cultural and historical background as well, what he/she just need is enough knowledge to figure out if it is not scam at all.

I think that we should not forget the small investors who invest not so much of their funds, but the total number of them is quite large. It is thanks to such people new projects have the opportunity for development.

It seems to me that many investors are still working here, who were previously able to get a large income thanks to ICO. Therefore, they still believe in the prospects of the ICO market, continue to regularly invest part of their money. I am sure that they are doing the right thing, because the market will eventually recover.

It may still be there, but in my opinion, the demand is not as big as before because indeed competition from the current trend also makes the market of ico weaker. there must be a change in ico to be able to restore investor confidence.

I didn't invest on ICOs but there was a lot of people who invest and most lose money, i think now people will invest on IEOs and if they invest on trusted exchanges they have a good chance for a good profit.

This again became profitable, only now everyone is investing in the IEO, this is the same ICO only carried out with the help of exchanges.

Most IOCs end up as scams. IEOs are the rave now but are not solid yet. However, while I won't advise anyone to go into ICOs I can tell them to try out IEOs. There isn't any record of scam on IEO yet. So, investors can play safe there if they can deal with the certainty of market dump that could happen after the coin launchpad.

I am sure that there are completely different investors working in this market who are interested in obtaining a large income. Although many people and companies also believe in the technology and product that the selected projects offer. Each investor adheres to his strategy - some just want to get income, while others plan to help in the development of a truly useful product.

if you ask who the investors are, of course the investors from the ICO are those who are interested in the project. as we know, sometimes ICO teams always go around places that have interest in crypto and do presentations there. they did this to gather big investors. sometimes they also collaborate with several large companies.

I think there are some investors who've been hypnotized by these teams and they will invest on it. Maybe there are some investors who are hoping that the project they invested their money will bloom in the long run.

Investing in ICO is very profitable only if the project becomes successful and will not be a scam but we know already that most of the ICO's right now are considered scam already so investing in ICO has a very high risk.

I think this investment is more observant and careful if you want to join the ICO,
plus the IEO has now appeared, so I think ICO is not a good choice for now,
but I am sure that for the IEO too, there will be less interest when investors are already saturated with the IEO which is no longer profitable.

yes, but ICO isn't too bad and it's still possible for ICO to grow again and get better.
so be careful before joining, so you can find a good project that can provide benefits.
for now many are talking about IEO and that is a good thing so you can choose which one is best for you to do.

People who are tired of funding white goose projects or those who have unlimited funds they don't know what to do with. The days of moon and lambo are far gone but many people still haven't learnt.

Speculators are people who have a lot of money and are willing to provide capital to invest in the ICO. They invest heavily in various ICOs that can benefit when coins are traded on the crypto exchange.
They are not afraid of fraud or losing their capital because trust has become an option that provides investment when the ICO can provide a lot of profits if the traded coins are sold out, meaning that the market likes it.

They're either guys who don't know what to do with their money, and the ones who diligently supports the project. I've been in several Telegram groups in the past and I can't count how many has gone away. I always look at the team if they have the group to beat or if they have some sort of a Charlie lee type of guy. Latest I saw was Ecomi (http://ecomi.com?utm_source=ecomilx), a crypto collectible with AR that already had their private sales sold out. As an investor, that also tells me that they'll continue and may have the chance to go 10x. Like in the crypto world, ICO and everything is a risk.

What's funny is that those Telegram projects even went to events and after a few months time, their telegram accounts are already inactive for a long time already. I would recommend everyone to go with STO's and IEO's already, they provide more security to the investors.

When the time comes to sell, it is not difficult to offer IEO instead of ICO. So, there is no big difference. It depends on which exchange will be used. To taking care, most projects clarify that IEO will be made after special sales.

ICO attracts people from different works and space to get involved in the various projects in the sense of buying into their projects which is also considered and investment as they get their funds exchanged for tokens and hold or sell at markets

There are a lot of people investing in ICOs. but you know, now this trend is going down and new wave calling IEO has replaced ICO approach.
So actually investors invest in IEO

First, everyone wants to get a lot of profits quickly, I'm sure that is everyone's priority
but because of that, there are many projects that are stuck or have difficulty developing because there are so many people who don't want to hold their coins especially when prices start to grow, I don't blame them because I also do it
there is no guarantee that coins will continue to grow so that sometimes people don't want to take risks or rather don't want to waste the opportunity
it is not a wrong action because without us realizing the new project can get a chance because investors' money continues to spin because if everyone just invests and holds it continuously then their capital will run out or stop and the new project will not get funds from investors

maybe because there are often ico projects that are scam and porous that don't exist in the real world, making investors think twice about investing in ico and this becomes very bad for ico itself because without a project investor who really has a good project it will be difficult to be realized.

If we are talking about the market and companies, then in order to protect investors' funds, you need to make a protection system, Or maybe even a guarantee system for investors who will not be afraid of losing their money.  I understand that new projects without investments will be difficult to develop, but you must understand how much money is being stolen by scammers from investors.

But so far ICOs are not dead and still invest in them, although the situation at ICO is very difficult now, but it seems to me that in time everything will return to its place

there are still many people investing in ICO, the proof is that there are many projects that reach hardcap.
so even though at this time the IEO has got a lot of investors but it does not make the ICO lose all of its investors.

One thing that lures people to invest into ICOs before was the hope that the market can recover after the bear market and the glory days of ICO will come back. But opposite thing happened and ICO market seems to be dead because of taking over of IEOs.

There always will be interesting ICO's even in bear market, "from the ashes phoenix rises". Projects which building right now, will be huge in next bull cycle. Olthough ICO's could be risky investments, they come with higher potential outcome and some investors likes that strategy. And remember, "do not put all eggs in one basket".

In the past I have invested in ICO projects of which many of them turn to be a scam project because they later went away with all investors money, and some of those same developers are coming in a disguise way with another ICO projects to attract more investors and that is why I don't believe in any ICO projects any longer.

You might think no one invest in ICO project but there are some real investors there who always go in for these ICO projects. Always remember that success is for the risk takers. But to be sincere many investors have halted investment  but as to what lure them into it is the lies from the project team

Of course, to have earnings you need to risk your money. However, investing in current ICOs is a very big risk, usually unjustified by the same large earnings.
Therefore, now it is better not to risk investing in ICO.

Novice and inexperienced investors who are either new to the crypto ecosystem or investors who want to gamble their luck on new ICOs are the people who still invest in new ICO projects. About 20% of people in the crypto space both new and old investors believe that the greater the risk, the higher the profit potential of this new ICO projects. A lot of these investors do not really research enough about these projects before investing in them..

Who invests? People that believe in these projects. Truth is, a lot of people see the potential some great projects possess - which sets them apart from the scams and money grabbing projects. When you see a project with an undeniably amazing use case and a team capable of delivering a working product just like this (https://www.ecomi.com/#features), you'd be amazed at the number of individuals willing to support such a worthy cause.
Gradually, we're becoming more like traditional investors.

Various big players and various companies are still investing in ICO`s, but before investing, they do a lot of work, namely, they study companies in order to know can they trust these companies and invest in them or no, they also meet with these companies and their teams to protect themselves.

I think its the bounty hunters who invest heavily in the ICO's and some new investors who don't know much about risks in the crypto world and they invest. Though the investments in ICOs is not bad but it needs a lot of investigation before making the investments. And if everything is done properly then it can be one very solid investment.

I prefer doing bounties than investing money,it is less risky,I had been investing in different coins and ICOs and lots of thouse tokens are still under their Ico prices,so I am having some losses now and I am trying to recover them by doing bounties of promising projects.

Every people that is willing to double thier money, they are the ones that invest on an ico's . Some of them are experienced investors and some are newbies but i think even newbies do also have a brain to understand that ico's are too risky and the sad part is that they still continue.

 Same as on exeperienced and veteran investors , they do take the risk but sometimes we cant blame them because its also hard to differentiate a scam from legit ico's .

I am a regular ICO investor and it is risky to invest in it
The new ecosystem is IEO it is the game changing method and it is most trusted way for investor. One of my invested project http://authpaper.io (http://authpaper.io) they are also switching in IEO to create trust i am really setesfy with them.

We all know that many scam icos already spread on the internet but we cant stop investing because it is our culture here in this industry.Many people got scammed on ico but not all ico are scam nowadays and you can easily identify trustworthy icos out there

in my opinion, only large investors who want the value of the project to increase and make big profits that dare to invest in ico, for ordinary people may still doubt the future of ico. and it is no exception that sometimes the developer team also invests in the project in order to succeed the ico.

Anyone who knows what investment  is in the digital world. They actually know what investment could ring to them and also know it worth so there is nothing to be scared irrespective how far things are going.

I did in the past and would still do if I find the project promising. Good ICO's are easily filled to hard cap and have a large hype on getting listed on an exchange.
Most of the projects I invested had yielded me profit except for some which I'm holding but their prices are decreasing everyday.
Though even a established and promising team sometimes fails to deliver, still ICO investing are profitable if you are able to choose the correct ones.

Those that invest in ICOs are the risk takers in crypto. These set of people invest in ICO for the purpose of getting huge returns but recently ICOs have failed in this regard because most of them are scam and investors loose their money.

those who knows what will be the possible results will continue to invest as they will take the risk, chances to earned will be at stake
you can move forward only if you have really good understanding and you have skills to play with the market trends, ico's needs to
have a lots of courage to invest.

investing during ICO when walking is indeed a high risk if the project fails, but on the contrary if the project is successful then the profits obtained will be very large. choosing to invest in ICO requires high precision and trust and considerable experience, because now many ICO projects are deceiving. usually investors are interested in projects that have high innovation and attractive and profitable prospects in the future, because they believe the project will continue to grow.

If a project has a working product, most especially one that would interest those who are in this space and are technologically inclined, it will attract investors and such will grow organically come what may.
Such coin does not usually yield to pump and dump, except the general market itself is being manipulated.

The problem is those kind of projects that have a good product will easily attract investors without the need of creating an ICO for that. A project that is good will stand up in the cround and people will see that which I going to attract investors. Most of the ICOs created now use fake products and lie to people to attract investors and then they manipulate the market of their coin to seem like it wasn't their fault.

The investors who believe about the project of course. For example, there is an ICO based in your country and they have press conference about it,
then you believe that the project will be success in the future. It will be not weird if you investing on that ICO.
Bcnex ICO is one of the example, it is a legit exchange platform in Vietnam. There are many investors already investing in their ICO that currently running.

ICO investors were mostly retail to begin with but these offerings quickly attracted private equity and VC funding as they gained popularity, however, the focus is now starting to shift from this type of funding model to IEOs which have an individual cap and don't typically include private sales that attract larger institutional investors which can be more beneficial to participants if the project has long term viability

I don't actually invested on the ICO but I can say that whoever have invested on this kind of thing is surely sacrificed some huge amount of money hoping that they will get a huge amount when it reached the moon. Those price are actually unpredictable but most of the case instead of the moon, they fall at the bottom of the Earth Pit.

People still invest in ICO, some good ICO still turns out a good gamble in the short term. When I had enough money before I loss much on ICO, I remember accumulating much ICO which are now worthless.

Those people are either out of mind, or have money which they don't care about.
I don't think ICO get a much fund this days, even if they get, you must have to admit then the project is something good. However, I would never invest in any ICO now.