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6 methods to choose a good project for investment

1. Choose projects of the right size, focus on value and avoid projects with excessive hype: The level of capital was in the range of $ 2 million - $ 10 million

2. Analyze the group and make sure they succeed: By choosing a successful, experienced and entrepreneurial founder team, you will increase your chances of success. This is by itself the most important value index, but I put it in second place, simply because the regulatory risks related to the number 1 can easily ruin a good project regardless experience of the founder.

3. Avoid projects with large "Dark Spaces" in their Roadmap: Ideally, you can feel the service in ICO and can use your card right after the end. Waiting for 1 year to get an alpha version is not acceptable.

4. Ensure reasonable Hardcap, any unsold token should be destroyed and there will not be any future products

5. Ensure that the project really needs to be on the blockchain: If not, it means they are doing ICO just for the purpose of creating a virtual ICO for profit

6. Ensure the founder is involved with the community and they need their token to increase value

How did you concluded this value.


I guess you mean to say some prototype should be ready. I also do not believe in investing on some text document and website.

Many people are trying to ride in the wave of blockchain even they have nothing to do in blockchain or blockchain is even not suited to their purpose.

There are many ways of finding good projects for investment and that offer good profit for investors. Some websites review these projects like icobench and the whitepaper is the most important document to know how the project is going to get realized. There are teams that keep communicating with investors and announcing their progress every week as well. First go and check the team, then the whitepaper and roadmap (it should not be unrealistic and definitely should be legal), the company needs to be registered with valid phone numbers are the first steps that investors need to check on.

Stop relying on icobench. They are advertising the scam ICO too.
Roadmap is not a gurantee that development will actually happen.

Sometimes community members only review ICOs including some famous investors on Twitter do the same to help investors. Roadmap is not a guarantee but I've seen roadmaps that are have such unrealistic fake goals that people sometimes trust them and then they fail. Some projects earlier had managed to get funds even without a roadmap as they gave false promises to their users. People fall for the number of telegram users which shouldn't be the case as most of them are bounty participants and fake investors.

I'm seeing a shift right now. There are some ICOs that suspended or delayed their public token sale until they finished their prototype or beta version. The standard of many investors has changed and some start ups has noticed that. They're now trying to woo these investors again.

If you want to know if a project is going to succeed just ask your self if there is a real need for that product and there will be a market for it.
The second question is about devs and whether they are able to create a product that can compete with other similar products.
If the answer for both questions is yes, then probably it is a good project to invest in.

From you number method of choosing a good project to invest in.
I would not totally agree with you because there are some investors that want to invest in little projects and grow with that project and not all project with low volume ends up poorly

Try to analyzed if their product really fits the idea of using or applying crypto.

Let's be realistic here and not just rely on their whitepaper or roadmap since it's the first place it was made properly to gained attractions and explained the concept of the project. And for the team, I see mostly that their profession is not really into crypto.

My bottom line, don't rely on putting money on projects or participate in ICOs just to expect a decent return someday. There are other way around which also has the same risks but worth to give a shot.

The ideas you shared are all useful and it's helpful especially to newbie who would like to enter in the world of investing here through an ICO.

I would like to say that the most important point to consider is the team, you make a research of the team and if you are convince that they are very reputable, for sure whatever written in the road map or the vision of the project will be achieve, and they will work to develop the project.

All of these "ICO rating" are all scams. They are not really rating the ICO by what capability it could bring. And funny to think about how it is that it is rating a soon to be scam project as 4.0?

About the roadmap, you can never guarantee that they will follow that. It's up to the team if they will let investors and supporters by their actions.

Whichever methods you use, you should know how to discover scam projects, or should know places where you can get already identified scam projects.
I don't know that you actually have interests in such topics or not, but I give you some. If you don't need them, maybe others need.
ICOEthics - scam list 2018-2019 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5110020.0)
🌍 Guidelines, how to spot a scam ICO & report effectively. ✔ (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5004397.0)
There is helpful site that listed bunches of scam ICOs: https://icoethics.com/
If your interest projects listed in topics and site mentioned above, I don't see you have reasons to apply any of those 6 methods.  :P

You can have the best technology and a great team and still end up failing.  A lot of your success is reliant on marketing. This is why we some low quality music rise to the top of the billboard charts, labels know how to market their artists and create hype.  The same thing applies to crypto.

The 6 methods to choose program?. How accurate that methods exactly?. In my opinion, those 6 methods are nothing and it's just a trash or plain text, not even one would work 100%. My suggestion is that you should know how to spot scam icos or projects then you can find good project to invest in rather than finding good project which is not the best solution in finding one. Start learning the thread in the quote below then you can find good project and also know if it is a scam to avoid.

I would add another method
7. Choose project that is original, proven, estabilished and conservative. Choose project that exist already for years for example bitcoin. Don't waste your time on ICO  scams with pump-dump scheme.

A roadmap is based on what they decided, you should be strict on the roadmap, if they deliver late on what they put on their roadmap then you can think twice or start to doubt on their project. There's a lot of altcoins that are not delivering their roadmap at the exact date they said, especially their testnets or mainnets.

Choose a project that will has its own use. Too many project that has been very good in promotion, giving dates, proposals on what will they be in the next few years base on their road map. But as that project commence, many have not been following their road map anymore. I think they're already tired and probably have the money already that was raised through that ICO. Set yourself first if you want to pursue more about investing with projects, if not you can trade on your own.

Proper investigation is really important for investor to choose right projects for secure investmen. Sometime you could get lower profit but its always better than lost all investment fund.  Before making an investment its urgent to be notified about that existing projects pros & cons. At least we should check several things like project strong backgroun, valid team, concept, future roadmap and more.

Only those investors will get the sweet taste of handsome profit whose will able to spot a good and attractive project for their investment .           

Your opinions are very reasonable. But for those who have written this article, I think it is more complete and helps new people better understand whether to or should not invest. Thank you

In my opinion, with the way of making IEO on existing exchanges, IEO investment is a good way to avoid the risk for investors.
However, it will be profitable for big investors. As for small investors, the risk remains. Do you think so?

I would add a 7th point that could destroy the previous 6, it's called "luck". You can be the most expert crypto talent scout and chose the most interesting project where invest, but then that guy just arrived from the countryside will buy a shitty coin that will make 500x, while you're well studied project after 2 years is still trying to deliver a working product