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If you are having a project which is going to deal a real-world application or you're going to focus on solving a long existing problem then you can go for ICO. Otherwise it would be much better to focus on other things except conducting ICOs. Anyhow I am sure that you are going to face very hard time to convince people to contribute in your ICO. Because, people here got complete frustration out of lots of scammy ICOs. So, there are only 25% chances for a successful ICO. I'm not here to discourage you but I am just starting the facts.

Even I am hating IEOs and I prefer only ICOs because of the welfare of people of this community espl bounty hunters, I like to suggest you to go for contacting any exchange for IEOs. Because only with IEO, there could be some chances for raising big amount of money for your project development; given that I am assuming you're working for a real project. Good luck :).

Airdrops and bounties are no longer effective IMO. All these campaigns will not truly bring you successful funding because people already know what's trash and what's legit. Unless you have a really good use-case for your product, a well-known team, big corporations that invested in you, a famous person on your team like an advisor, etc.

Your project must be something that the world really needs, there are already a lot of projects that came out. Right now, we need a project that will drive mass-adoption. Some projects are not doing ICO's (https://concordium.com/) but have big corporations lining up like Nestle because of the technology being massive. I'd say try to pitch your project to big investors so far.

bounties and airdrops are used as the final paid advertising. however, if you want to be successful in creating projects, try doing IEO, not ICO. choose a large exchanger, even if it costs money, if you really want to develop a project, then that is the pay. in addition, to make your supporters more confident, try paying with coins that have a price, and use escrow. that's what I think.

No room for ICO in crypto space anymore, it's an old strategy now, scammers ruin everything about ICO and using ICO won't do any good because investors find it harder to trust ICO projects today, try using IEO instead and secondly you will need airdorps and bounties to create enough attention to your project

I think the current trend now in the cryptocurrency space is IEO not ICO however if you need to carry out ICO that would be very successful you need a project that carry human face not a scam. An ICO that would be successful need a project idea that can solve human issues of life and is sustainable

This is going to be very hard in this present times after so many uncountable disappointment many people have gone through, nobody is ready to lose money anymore, once beaten twice shy they say, can't make the same mistakes again, ico are nothing but pain now, time already pass for ico to redeem itself.

At present time so many ico has been scam we can't count them. Most traders are now aware of investing in ico. It is very hard to run a successful ico these day now but if anybody want to run a successful ico then your project should be very good with long term vision that will help to solve the society problem. Traders are aware of ico so company should put belive in traders that this ico project is good to solve some problem. Promote with social media should have good execution. Otherwise very difficult to run a successful ico.

You should plan on using IEO instead, it works better and faster than ICO, no one use ICO anymore for raising funds, for your IEO to be successful though you have to choose good exchange, some exchanges have bad volume and liquidity, do research on that

To be frank, ICOs are long forgotten and if your team should take such steps they might be faced with a lot of challenges because nowadays no one is ready to take unnecessary risks with them (ICOs) when IEO is already presenting a better alternative with lesser risks. In my own opinion, your team can work on carrying out IEO on good exchanges, it must not be on top exchanges, there are good exchanges to start IEO on and so far the idea of the project is unique and applicable then the chances of success even after IEO will likely keep increasing.

If your project is legit and the target market is not yet saturated then the only thing you need to focus is your marketing strategy. Its the main formula to success in ICO. Many shit project manage to gather tons of fund by doing a strategic marketing and never try to do a low budget marketing because you will surely failed.

Try to acquire partnership to well known project as many as you can and invite influencer to do interviews to your CEO about your project. Attending on crypto conferences and widening your network connection will help you to gather more investors. Finally, You can contact VC to invest in your company so that you can have sure funds for initial project development.

Its really important at initial stage that you have already private investors so that other new investors will easily trust your ICO. Trust is the number issue on ICO that's why it's hard to gather funds nowadays. So make your project reputable and put some effort on building it. Goodluck!

1. The success of your project depends entirely on its use case
2. ICO is long gone, don't use ICO unless you are fine raising funds for two or even three years
3. With IEO it will only take you minutes to hours or days to raise funds depending on the exchange you choose
4. The success of IEO fundraising depends on exchanges, make sure you use medium to high rated exchanges

ICOs are dead in this market. So no matter what you do, you will not be able to raise funds from the ICO. Try to deal with exchanges in this market to implement IEO, which is the only way your project can raise funds and succeed in this market.

I think you need to extend your advertisement and promotion by holding an AMA (ask me anything) events, It would be best if it is a live event but due to pandemic, a video chat can do I think.  If you have the budget, you may need to hire a known personality to promote your project, same way Centra hired Floyd Mayweather to advertise their products, sadly they turned out to be a fraud.

Well first of all, hire the best designer you could afford, designer is the most important thing in an ICO and its by far with a big margin yet many ICO people do not realize this. I am not talking about your friend who took that photoshop class in college, no I mean spend all your money you can afford on designer. Why? Because designers makes things look better and if something doesn't look good, it could be the best project in the world but nobody would ever look at it.

If I were OP, probably I will never think about going for ICO these days. Because after lots of scams here, people may never touch ICOs again. Otherwise it will take lots of efforts to convince them to get back into ICOs. I'm not sure what kind of marketing strategy will be making that kind of magic working.

Airdrop and bounty only help you have a good community, it can not help your project to succeed in this market. If you want to succeed then you should implement IEO, which is the only option at the present time

Conducting an ico in my own opinion is failure at first sight.
you do not need to worry yourself at all about Crowdfunding, the first question should be does your project product attract investors? Does it create buzz in your community?

Even with Bounties and Airdrop, if your product cannot create buzz, a Crowdfunding program is a waste

Hello Im looking forward to evaluate your project upon release.

Here are my suggestions:

• Create an attractive Ann thread here on forum, particularly on this section if its a token type. Token Altcoins (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=240.0)
• Go for an IEO instead of ICO, many investors are avoiding ICOs now due to scam. But you can set a private sales for institutional investors that will be interested on your platform
• Ready your MVP or working platform before conducting any public or private sales so they can see that its working already
• Manage the legality or papers that you need for launching
• Prepare roadmap, website, social sites, whitepaper, and most importantly, github post for open check ouf your progress

If you can finish all of this then you are ready for your launching. Bounty and airdrop is not necessary and only an optional perks of marketing. But its always good to have for some traction.

If it is a great project then it will move on its own.
Perhaps, you should give us some hint of what kind of project it will be so we could think of something else that might help you for ideas.

Bounties work easily if the project is promising and has a good feature.
If it doesn't, the hype won't work.
Pay as much as possible with your own money. It's suffocating to witness another project that will fail again and workers won't get anything afterward.

At present everyone in crypto no longer trusts ICO, so don't make an ICO and hope for success, because investors are also no longer interested in any ICO program, the solution now is to make IEO in a well-known exchange, so that your project can be a perfect success.

ICO is very difficult to gather investors and investors also lose interest in ICO, now IEO is becoming a trend in selling tokens, I only recommend you to do IEO not ICO, but remember if you really want to do IEO don't choose exchanges that have a bad reputation

First of all, you have to consider that your project is useful and can be used by most people.

As for promotion way, it depends on your team and your budget to be spent.

In this forum, there are two ways to promoting a project i.e bounty campaign that paid in your token and signature campaign that paid in bitcoin.

It up to your team, but if I am in your team I'll choose signature campaign that paid in bitcoin, most likely the project that held signature campaign will be interesting because you can choose some good users in this forum to promote your project and this thing will give a good review for your project.

I have not seen any successful ICO project this year. So you should also be careful with your decisions, it is difficult to raise funds with the ICO. Investors were scared of it because there were so many scams and they lost too much money. Try IEO at exchanges like Bittrex, Kucoin, Gate ... Surely your project will be supported and successful.

So they choose IEO then what next?  Conducting an ICO or  IEO will yield the same result if they do nothing about their campaign.  

I think you need the following:

1.  Right Portal to advertise your project.
2.  Prove that you are a capable and legitimate team.
3.  Try to designate an ambassador for your target countries.
4.  Should have a professional-looking website.
5.  A realistic road map that will attract investors

You don't need anything than
1. Good use case for your token to be more demanding
2. Good exchange for IEO fund raising

Don't even think about using ICO to raise fund, it's never going to bring good result, IEO projects from top exchanges easily raise requires funds, Hardcap target become piece of cake for top Exchanges to handle.

Drop the ICO as it outdated and switch to IEO to increase your chance of success. Hold the promotion with bounties and airdrops to let the community spread the words of your coin.

Please if your project is not novel or solve any real life scenario which has not been explore or it is under-explore, I will advise you not to waste your time, energy and money. You can go to the ANN thread on the forum and look at many of projects that are having an ICO, 95% of them will turn to be unsuccessful unless you also plan to be one of the dev. However, if you have a solid project, I will encourage you firstly to seek for cooperation from relevant crypto communities. I will also advise if you intend to launch bounty. I do not give a bogus allocation to the campaign just because you want many hunters to help you promote your campaign. You can advertise on other crypto platforms such etherscan, CMC, Coingecko etc. Also make sure you already have a well developed platform and you have already start working on the project. Do not wait until you get funds from ICO before you start working on your roadmap.
In case you change your mind and want to switch to IEO, please do not even consider any of below exchange platform for the IEO
Latoken
p2b2b
probit
sistemkoin
Exmarkets
Coineal
IDAX
VinDAX
Shortex

First question, do you have enough funds to list your tokens on trusted exchanges? If yes, just choose a trusted exchange to list your token first and provide IEO there. It is the only way to attract people to join or support your project. Please don't plan for ICO, it will risk your project and probably ends with less interest of investors. ICO era has been over, the real investors now avoid buying token/coins from an ICO. Be smart to choose the way to have fundraising, buddy!!

IEO This will of course be the best advertisement for you. Moreover, in the future you will not encounter the problem of listing a coin on the exchange. I think IEO will work well with bounty and airdrop.

Do not forget to distribute people money but also give them a good reason to work for you while not getting screwed at the same time. When you do bounty there is usually a sweet spot where you actually spend a good amount of money for getting a good amount of work, if you pay a lot more you are getting screwed and they will dump it and make your coin worthless, if you pay less they will not work for it at all or do a bad job.

I would say if you want to do bounty, just talk with people who have done it before, if you can find a marketing person who has done bounty before and willing to work with you, it will not really cost a lot to hire them, few thousand dollars at most in return of getting someone who has done the job before and can do the same thing again for you as well.

Ideas, concepts, products are the most important things for the success of a project. However, as we have seen many new ideas emerge, promising concepts and quality products but ultimately do not match expectations. if you plan to create a project, you must be honest, serious in developing the project and certainly can attract the attention of investors, partners and users in it.

This is a tricky question... I think if you can warrant the ICO will not run with the investor's money, then you will have a successful ICO.

And that-s the problem people don't trust in ICO's anymore because more than 90% of them ends in a exit scam.

ICO had already a bad reputation so don’t apply it unless you can convince some of investors in your project. IEO is better if you can list in exchange like Binance its the best, well atleast try to make your project transparent for investors confidence.

I do not see anything wrong with ICO, yes there are lots of ICO projects that turned out to be a scam but if OP wanted to be different, they can pull it through as long as they have the knowledge, findings, and right people who can advertise their projects.


Not all do not trust ICO's.  You will be amazed that there are still people who invest in a legit ICO.

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BTW, here is a read from Investopedia about successful ICO : What Makes for a Successful ICO? (https://www.investopedia.com/tech/what-makes-successful-ico/)

And here is another one from finance Digest:  How to Ensure A Successful and Trustworthy ICO (https://www.financedigest.com/how-to-ensure-a-successful-and-trustworthy-ico.html)

Most people have already lost interest in ICO projects, maybe you should focus only on IEO projects. For than reason l advise you to prefer IEO projects than ICO. l don't think you can get success from ICO projects, that is why there is just fewer chance to make something good with ICO. Of course, that doesn't mean ICO consists absolutely from scammers, but most of them are just fraud, that is just fact.

   You need to be trustworthy! I think it's all in that one word, but it's harder to do it than to say it! Everything
you say do it like that! Is it bounty or road map, try to do what you said you will. If you are trustworthy you
will have loyal followers and supporters, and with good idea everyone can make a good profit in years to come.

Yes. Investors will definitely invest in a project if they see the the potentials in you. Trust should always be there so that people will support you all the way. Spend as much as you can for the welfare of the project because if it will turn out successful in the end, you will eventually make huge profits to gain.

I think to be able to make an ICO successful is to create a project that is truly useful for many people and certainly can provide many benefits for users and investors, because at the moment there are few ico that have such goals, most of them developers are only thinking how developers get money from ico.

I really think is going to take alot of convincing to actually make people really back ICOs these days Not that there arent any going on but I think mostly private investment does more good but then again you need some serious good marketing and focus on what you aim to achieve with your campaign

And they need to meticulously select the exchange as the reputation is very important. So what it sits right now, is that ICOs are not a sure thing anymore to raise funds for the project. You should have solid foundation and as much as possible as FanEagle has mentioned, you should be dealing with real world app so as to gain active users. With that being mentioned, it is better to have your app up and running before you do your ICO, so potential investors will see that you are serious in implementing your project. If not, it will be the same with all the other past ICOs. Good words/texts are not selling anymore these days.

I guess abandon the Idea of ICO's it is not attractive to investors now unless you have a decent reputable already but if you are just starting it will not work. IEO is the new version of ICO now but only reputable exchange has the majority of sales. I suggest finding private investors or private firms to invest in your projects is much better and launch an IEO on a decent exchange and have a good marketing. Also, All important info's should be listed on FAQ's in your website enable for the possible investor to understand you easier. Doing bounties and airdrop is not really a thing now.

Most investors doubt ICO because it is easily used as a tool to commit fraud. So, one of the best steps you can take is to:
1. Establish cooperation with projects that are trusted and have a good reputation
2. Having products that are truly quality and realistic

The best idea is partnership, without partnership your project can't bring trust to all investors, I think. Huge history success has cryptocurrency without top exchange support, good team or high promotion. Although this time any investor can't trust new projects without partnership. MVP and a good team can help a project to huge success. After ICO finishes, don't choose any bad exchange for IEO if you are interested in IEO.

I am not sure that holding an ico will be successful, because today many investors have no confidence in new projects, unless your project is old and has been widely known and trusted, it might work, if new, you must convince investors, so they invest in the project you

To develop any project doesn't need huge money, without money even legit projects can't give you real and realistic products. A new project has one thing which is trust. If any how you can show it, your project will be successful. Bounty and airdrop also help a project to spread the news about this project. After success, scam exchange can vanish the whole trust that's you earned.

It's better for you at least tried to visit icodrop and then you should take a look at the ended ico history and you will see a lot of icos can even attract the investors to invest on it.
It's not true if ico is dead but it's still alive. The demand if ico gets less right now.

I don't think ICO is profitable anymore and you can't fund raising with ICO. There is no other choice, now it has switched
to IEO. All you have to do is look for good exchanges to create an IEO project, after getting good exchanges. Next make
a team that is competent to develop IEO projects.

even for IEO, it's still quite difficult to make it successful because now investors are smart enough to see the opportunities of IEO. however, I don't recommend choosing ICO. if you don't have a strong partnership, then ICO will only be considered a scam. I think you can only benefit from a private sale.

Abandon ICO if you've already planned to use ICO, try IEO instead, the only problem is IEO needs good exchange for fair results, some exchanges in crypto space has fake volumes and lesser people use them, e.g p2pb2b exchange, exmarket, latoken, etc, stay away from these exchanges, they are bad, best exchanges for IEO are Binance, Okex, huobi, kucoin, Probit, upbit,bithumbb,bigONE, Gate.

IEO that will not launch on the major exchange site has a big chance to be another fail project. The major exchange sites were putting very strict requirements to make the ico that will be launched its crowdsale will be fully reliable to be invested by investors.
Product, solid team, mass publication and many more totally needed.

Most of the ICO nowadays lacks marketing a solid dev and a clear plan ahead a good use-case will give you big points, conduct your ICO in big exchange with a sure listing date, avoid hyping your project making promises, and giving deadline the team can`t meet, a constant update to the community what is happening and what is being developed. and of course, having a dedicated blockchain.

ICO is not trend for investors right now. ICO scams dominated the headlines of the cryptocurrency industry for quite a while.
Leaving many investors with considerable losses and a hard-earned lesson. Investor are now. I suggest to switch on IEO if you are serious on your project and find a better exchange.

The biggest problems with ICO is the fact that it is very difficult for investors to know who the organizers are behind the Blockchain project. Meaning, there are greater chances of them becoming a victim to hacks and scams. But the exchange support that IEO comes with makes the whole crowdfunding model absolutely secure.

ICO nowadays its not good since 2018 came up, therefore joining in the IEO is much more safer rather than ICO, only few of the ICO project
arise here in crypto that I could say its legit, but hard to find honestly speaking because most of the ico appeared in bounty section are scams where most of the participants or investors became a victim.

If you want to be successful with an ICO, then your project must be really good and have many reliable partners. If people see you as a good project, they will definitely participate in your ICO without thinking.

To tell you frankly, ICOs nowadays are not that much popular and been took no notice of most investors. But if your project is sincere and you wanted to launch your ICO project in a favorable outcome. Gain the trust of the community and do some promotional activities to be known by many. Be unique and a project desire will be achieved if the project teams will show to the community that the project has a profound purpose and use in the crypto field.

Do not waste your time with ICO. Try IEO at large exchanges so people can invest in it, if you do an ICO then your project will fail. This year I have not seen any successful projects with ICOs

indeed when participating in coin bidding using the ICO method now it is not very profitable anymore but by way of IEO also cannot provide guarantees for profit, but even though like that there are still some IEOs held at exchange sites that have a good reputation can be successful and can benefit, my advice is better to participate IEO from the Binance exchange place.

IEO is only good for leading exchanges in this market such as Binance, OKex, Huobi, Kucoin ... If IEO is done in small exchanges like P2PB2P, Yobit, Probit ... then it is like ICO , those projects will collapse many times and investors will lose money

IEO is all you need to do for your project to be successful, the bad side of IEO is all about going small or crap exchanges, if you want huge adoption make sure your project have a very rare use case and go to one of the best exchange for IEO, the result will be so good

IEO one of the best way at this time for your successful project, if you want process ICO then you will needed more quality roadmap development. Anyway, you can launched bounty program it's more helpful service for promoting your project. Airdrop just a unless program at this time and more people avoid it.

I'm seeing lots of IEO itself getting failed by not reaching the expected cap on raising funds these days because investors are tired because of lots of scammy projects even in IEOs. So, no more rooms for devs to collect funds in the name of ICO nor IEO. At the same time I believe there could be some methods still not tired by devs to convince this community in the name of ICOs.

I mean if high rank people get involved in a project if it is really good and honest then there could be the chances for success for that ICO. I know it will not be that easier to convince some good number of high rank people of this forum to get involved in a project (assuming the project is legit and the development is happening in real time). If that will be possible then the chances for reaching milestones in ICO crowdfunding would be easier than we could imagine.

If you really believe that you will make a successful project, I recommend not selling with ICO or IEO methods, because these methods do not provide much benefit anymore.  Although I can not suggest you a more effective method, I want to give you the following advice.  You can get help from investment consultants that you think are really successful in this field or motivate your marketing team to do a good job.  I can guarantee that it will attract more attention if selling with a different concept, but I do not have a different concept suggestion in mind.

maybe you can promote through other means besides gifts & airdrop. You can advertise on Google, a type of other application that offers advertising services, etc. related to the IDE it depends on the project developer itself, if you are one of them then you have to be really serious about developing your project and not have malicious intentions for fraud.

If you want to launch a successful ICO then the first thing you should do is create a good project to attract investors, aridrop does not make your project successful.
In case you want to create a bonus program I think you should pay weekly with bitcoin or any of the coins listed.
good luck

The important thing for a project to succeed is not because it is an ICO or an IEO, I think a good project itself will attract investors.
Ideally, he should pay attention to developing a good project instead of focusing on bonus programs or aridrop

^ Make any promotions will give a better result if you will launch ICO, but I will choose IEO at this moment because investors had trauma on ICO's project like what happened back then year 2017-2018 most projects are dead and did not even hit on exchange. If you have done bounty and airdrop then proceed in building a good community, I mean a global community and make your project well know all over the world. This needs more capital to raise your project and become smell good from the big investors. Nevertheless, don't forget your last card to draw on this crypto business, list on one of the most trusted, and had a big community exchange for a better result.

Tokens with intrinsic utility will increase in value, while those whose purpose is to extract value from a business will lose their value. Almost all ICO are of the later type. If you add exchange listing costs post-ICO or invest heavily into marketing, though, the total amount could end up higher of crypto market.

In order to get a lot of funding you need to offer something to the investors who will want something, I do not think that there is anyone in the world right now who would invest into something they know they will lose, so you need to make them think that they will earn by investing with you.

For example tell people that with the funds you receive you will put a buy order at a price with 10% of all the funding, that way you will get it back by spending the funding and that could stop the bleeding from the bounty hunters selling right away and investors would love that. Or think of something else, that was just an example, you would be the one doing the ICO so you should decide on what you want to do with it and find a strategy that will keep the price from going down right away and profit the investors.

You will always have chances. everything will depend on who will support the project. How much money does the team initially have for launching a project, etc. We always have factors on which success will depend, besides people's interest in ICOs

Promoting is crucial. Bounty is still a good way of promoting your ICO. But you need to invest on a known manager to manage the campaign. Which this will result more people to join it and have a wider spread across the web. And also getting the project's name out there will attract investors. But always keep in mind that it's extremely difficult on reaching the max cap if you don't have good partners. So it all depends on the quality of ICO that people are interested on.

There are no opportunities for ICOs at the moment. I believe that 100% of ICOs will die and become scams, so if you want your project to be successful then you need to organize IEO at major exchanges in this market.

Ico has no future nowadays,

Running an IEO on a popular exchange is much better, as long as you create a project that is worth investing for, the project that will hook the attention of many investors. You should create not the perfect but a project that will give continuous satisfaction to your target investors.

Although I don't recommend it because it's an old model of crowdfunding and investors are shying away from it, you can still do provided that you have something to offer that was not offered before and you have people in your team that are real and not photoshopped, that are experts in their fields and of course if you can do AMA and a lot of webinar will be good for the project.
 

I don't agree with it.
ICO and IEO will not matter on the project as long as the project is quality, no scams or in short, it is legit.
Lot of shitcoins that are also done IEO, but where are they now? Dumping off the floor. Conducting an ICO is still possible these days, these coins/exchange offering will not affect the project me, as long as the project will deliver what people expecting or being a legit project.

There are still opportunities but the chance is very small compared with what happened in the old history of crypto.
Do you think to be listed into the IEO platform is easy as you said above? that needs a lot of effort and the good ico is also needs a good development progress too.

In accordance with the title that is making the ICO successful, well the problem is that for now the ICO has been very difficult to reproduce, no matter what the ICO developers do, if investors are not interested then the efforts of the ICO developers will obviously be in vain.

You need to have many great partners in this market so people can trust and participate in your ICO. That is the only idea I think can help make an ICO project successful. Also you should choose IEO or ITO to make the project easier to raise funds

If you want to have much better chances from this field of business, you should study how the competitions are working behind.
The time for ICO was far being over, with how big exchange are competing with new projects, they are the one who gives opportunities
to get investors interest.

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You can invest with IEO but make sure that your project have real usage, you need to have upfront budget for participating / listing
your coin inside decent and well known exchange..

Aside from running bounty and airdrop, it would be best if you polish your project more. Think of something that will give other people the idea of being part of your project. Make sure that you can gain the trust and do your part as the project developer.

it is important that during the launching of the bounty campaign the project has a finished product and they should always making updates, about which the bounty campaign participants will constantly talk in their social networks and attract the attention of investors

Majority of the people here are not recommending ICO, obviously investors do not want to take part in project that do ICO, they prefer investing in project in IEO because they are guaranteed that the project goes to a lot of compliant and the exchange has done research on the background of the project, they have chances to make a profit than ICO.

The product must be active but the main point was it must giving great experiences to the investors who have started to test it. The bounty participants help to spread the awareness to all of the communities about the existence of this project.It will be useless if OP can't create a good product

IEO or ICO doesn't matter if your products activity is very well. Because at this time investors want follow project power with clear roadmap without fake promised. Otherwise bounty good ways and avoid please airdrop.

If you want a successful fundraising use IEO and make sure you use better exchanges like Kucoin OkEx etc, if you don't have enough money for top Exchanges use mediocre exchanges like bithumb or upbit, the better the exchange the chances of raising hardcap easily

If we analyze at least part of the startups on the cryptocurrency market in recent years, we can say with confidence that the bulk of all ico companies did not live up to their expectations and many projects did not fulfill their own promises. In addition, the cryptocurrency user community has very poor investment experience in ico companies, and if we take into account the report of the Australian treasury, we can say with confidence that the era of ico companies is ending. Of course, many seek to create centralized projects independent of governments, but at the same time, legal registered ico startups can provide certain guarantees for investors, as well as for the development team. Based on this, we can talk about certain chances of ico projects for a short period in order to regain confidence.

In addition to bounty with airdrop, you should look for more partners and investors. because what you need most is capital and relationships. If your project is good enough, you will be able to work with big partners and your project will be more famous than ever. You will then have the opportunity to list on big exchanges like Binance, Huobi, MXC or Okex. Then your tokens will be sold fastest and most.

When you don´t have any experience with managing ICO, then you have almost zero chance that your first ICO will be successful. I didn´t see that ICO created by novices was successful. What makes ICO successful is the trust in the team that they have experience and that they are credible. Credible that they will not run out with your money. :)

1. You need very popular top exchange
If you can't, atleast use a exchange with good reputation
2. Your project real use case is what will attract investors to your project

Your chances are very slim unless you can provide proof that your project is worth investing if you can show and gain trust from investors, this is by showing them your project has a good potential both in the market and on the community trust, but why pick on ICO when IEO can offer success to your project.

As long as your product or project does not have a good use in the real world ICO nor IEO is going to work. Investors are not in a hurry to invest and the only strong projects can survive this market condition. Even many good project failed to raise enough funds for their project. But if you run IEO on any of the top exchanges maybe you will be able to raise good amount of money because those exchanges offer Moore liquidity.

I can't say what to do to have a successful ICO because it will end up not being useful at all owing to the fact ICOs are no longer remembered and I don't think there is still anyone willing to invest with ICO again. However if your team would consider an IEO, it will make their job kinda easier, thus what to do to have a successful IEO is first having a good use case which is worth promoting and hence worth investing. By having a good use case, it will lead to having the right audience thus making the IEO a successful one. Another is having a strong community, who believes in the idea of the project, such that if any promotion would be made, they can help spread the word. In addition, the IEO should be on a reputable exchange.

I will just say be sincere. Let your goal be to solve a problem. And achieve it with all your possible effort. People needs to see how impactful your project will be and be unique. Make enough publicity and things will go well with raising funds.

Should think of all sorts of marketing which wont really be only limited on bounties or airdrops.There are lots of of ways and you can have some read ups on here https://www.yodiz.com/blog/8-types-of-marketing-strategies-and-definition/

But i would tell you this that theres no such guarantee in talks of success because it would always vary on the demand on the project itself if investors do saw the potential or utility of such
project which is always been the criteria most of the time.

i think the first thing and be an obligation that needed to make success in crowfunding was its project quality itself. dont ever thinking bounty or airdrop will make it success, its make popular yes. but once again , indicator on projects successfull based on its price on market. it could happen if quality in good and make investors or traders interested to put their money here.

i think if a project bring new ideas, new features and new technologies also supported by a great team behind the project
i believe the ICO will success my friend,,

That's true and when a project has been showing the good result on its progress and investors will be gradually joining in the project to take a look at is there a potential that already offered by the project.
The implementation of roadmap into the real things have become the main key

Forget about having airdrop as a marketing promotion because it certainly won't work just like many others.

Bounty did it best and working great before as a way to promote the ICO project but unfortunately, it was ruined so many times bringing investors not to give trust again in those projects who run for a bounty program. But I don't wanna give you a hopeless journey in your plan. You can still run for a bounty program anyway but don't expect that it catches a lot of attention. If you can prove that your project is worthy of their money and trust, then it lives into the confidence that it will succeed after the ICO as investors will look back into you.

So in short, OP should forget about holding ICO. Because most investors will just ignore your project. ICOs are dying because of low to no support in the community anymore. So what the OP and his team can do is reach out those private individuals or groups that can fund their project. Develop their platform without holding crowdsourcing because they will just fail if they try to collect funds from the. community.

Successful ICOs are those who have already developed a little project, so investors will first look at products that have been developed, if you come to ICO without bringing anything it will be very difficult to attract investors.

Even if they have a working product already it's still hard to attract investors in ICO as investors already generalize that the who ICO are scams.
TBH, though it's sad but I can't find an ICO this year that has been successful, for sure we would know if there is as it would create some buzz in crypto space.

I also did not find a successful ICO this year. if you want to develop a project, then think about the concept carefully, and try to do IEO in binance. although it requires a large fee, but this is the right path to take to succeed in the project that you are carrying. for now, using ICO will only make the funds you have.

It's not the bounty or the airdrops anymore, it's on the project, bounty and airdrops can only give you promotion they can just bring you to investor's awareness but making them invest is very much different, you need to make them trust you and it's up to you and your team how you can do that and how you can present your project to investors.

True! A lot of participants lost their trust in ICO since there were too many scammed ICO projects in the past. Therefore, IEO may be a better idea. When you do any project, the most important thing is that you have to have a clear plan for your project. You have to show us all (participants, investors, traders, bounty hunters, etc) the strengths of the project that you believe it can create a difference! Most of the investors invest in a project when they see the potential of the project by looking at the plan. After that, they also care about the attitude of the team. Your team has to be clear, follow the plan, and keep us updated regularly in order to gain your credibility!

Actually for now ICO itself is no longer interested. because trust has gone down. people don't believe it even though their development is good and is also supported by people who are experts in that field. we all know maybe the percentage of people who like ico is only small and that is now a fact

Investors are wise now and they are going to look for every potentials before engaging their selves into any initial projects.
if you are planning to start your own make sure to offer something unique.
Something that attracting where investors and traders will look closer, it's not that easy as most of the time developers are
just copying  from other projects.
They are just comes up with some ideas trying to enhance but in reality it's only a copycat.

crowfunding methode already changed now , less projects use ICO scheme since there is no more trust from investors. in the past after crypto booming on 2018, there are alot fake projects occur with their ICO. and many investors harmed alot , they lost their money and most of them prefer to quit from crypto market. i think if dev team want to make their project successfull they must have good plan and also good action to realize roadmap. when it happen i am sure crowdfund will running well.

I honestly think the airdrop is a GOOD model and has some very valid game theory behind it but the problem lies not so much in the airdrop itself but the mechanism to distribute it. I actually think some projects like Byteball in the past distributed it well because they chose to just give to any bitcoin account that had a balance.

Now airdrops encourage scammers to sign up multiple times. THAT is the problem.

Bounty and airdrop is enough it's your project that will make a difference, people and investors will see your project many times but if they do not have the potential investors are looking for in a project, everything is going to be useless, so be sure to check if your project can attract investors.

It will be very difficult to have a successful ICO at this time. The success of any ICO practically depends on the community, if the community is not in support then it will fail. ICO has done more harm than good to the community and it will be difficult to trust ICO again. If you are going to conduct ICO then you must be ready to convince the community.

Bounty and airdrop cannot make an ICO successful, it only helps the project to gain community in this market. If ICOs are to succeed, they must have a really good project and a clear roadmap to attract investors. Or they can choose IEO to raise funds

I would recommend IEO rather than ICO because most of investors don't have trust anymore on ICO due to scam issues on project conducted that lead to exit scam majority. Investors are more interested on big exchange conducting an IEO which got more success rate in my opinion. Doing airdrop and bounties will come in handy in the end of project marketing in order to gather community support and more investors on the road as well.

Before going for IEO on better exchanges I hope you guys have worked on something very useful and different?? If you introduce a repetitive project it won't do any good since you have many competitors

Yes, and that had happened in the past when ICO was still popular and many were trusted by investors, because many ICO projects in the past had real products, so investors were very easily attracted without having to be attracted by the project development team , but at this time it no longer exists.

Why don't you try to implement IEO? At the moment most investors are only interested in IEO, and if you can IEO at major exchanges in this market such as Gate, Kucoin, Okex ... Then I believe your project will become public and many supporters

There has been a lot of talks here that suggested what should a company to get a good amount of investment in ICO period however most of them have been from the investor point of view. I do agree that the most important part of a coin in community aspect is the investor and bounty hunter and both of them are here and both of them are responding very well ideas.

However you need to consider the project owners as well, nobody gives them any good advice on how they could get a profit out of this or make a good coin thanks to all the big funds. That is something you can't get here, you need to take a look at previous successful ICO's and talk with members of those in order to figure out what they did correctly that lead to them being so good and successful.

You need a truly professional strategy to reach potential investors:
+ Good website + WhitePaper;
+ Good profile on ICObench, ICOholder ...;
+ Famous team of advisors;
+ Attend many crypto events around the world;
+ Effective bounty campaign;
+ Most importantly, your ideas & solutions for the market.

Good luck!

The ICO game has been found out for what it is, it was built on hype with no real value and this has been shown time and time again with several projects only interested in grabbing as much money as they possibly can without really providing any real solutions or benefits. Getting a successful ICO these days is providing to be very difficult because people have lost interests. Unless something else get introduced, icos are long dead.

First you need to make sure you have a use case different from other projects similar to yours Try to solve a problem in a different way or make it faster Think more of the project features and Users first After that I will suggest you find internal investors first before trying to launch People close to you and your colleagues critics should give you a general guide line

The OP should forget holding their ICO as people are not interested anymore in this type of crowdsourcing. People have had enough of these promises and failed missions. Either spend their own money for development or find a wealthy sponsor to fund their project. People are not dumb anymore from all these crap projects popping everywhere.

Now there are still many ICO projects that make investors feel worried because the projects using this form are not profitable for investors. In addition, people seem to prefer IEO investment because these projects always bring a lot of projects to investors but only bring profits in a very short time. However, both ICO and IEO should be carefully considered and should take some time to analyse before choosing to invest.

The first project must be good, and have a team that is experienced in their respective fields. After that you have to create high hype, so that your ICO can be successful.

make a good development and roadmap also for development that is useful in the real world.
make sure your project has a good function, then marketing, such as holding airdrop and bounty campaigns is only a complement.

of course because to be able to provide price movements there must be a development that is very useful for many people and must be able to trigger investors to enter and support projects that are developed because if it is not like that it will be difficult to raise the price of coins at the exchange place.

A successful ico will always happen if you have a solid project. Something that has a product that has never been delivered before. Also, your project team should be able to market it very well to attract investors that will bring your project into success.

Such a strategy for sure makes sense, but you know, what I would also say - it is not easy to find multiple solutions that meet requirements. What I mean is evaluating the factors. From my point of view, platform must be advanced, reliable and, of course, bring real and practical value

Absolutely so and I fully agree with you that it is not easy to find several tokens that widen the horizons and set new standards on the industry. Talking about you, are there many solutions you can recommend in general?

Nope, I wouldn't say so. I am only having 2 or 3 most attractive ones I am following. And latest discovery I would definitely recommend everyone to have a look at - Centric Foundation. Have you already heard of such a solution? Cause you know, in here guys are setting entirely new standards on the industry

Centric? Hmm, it seems that I haven't heard of such a platform before, can you please provide more details on what the solution stays for?

Centric is a web 3.0-based payment network composed of two digital tokens that promote stability, incentivize structure for early adopters, and safely store value. The exchange between the two tokens is governed by a decentralized smart contract and a self-regulating protocol. But you should better Google guys to check out more on what they are bringing

So at first, you should think about the question if its makes sense that your project is based on a blockchain and is really decentralized if not you should write a good and meaningful explanation why your project should not be decentralized.

If you can do provide promising roadmap with working develope continue then no need to worry because your project has great future. Others point functionality prepared bounty promotions and outgoing follow partnerships actually.

Bounty and airdrop do not make your ICO successful, it just makes your project popular in this market. If you want to have a successful ICO then you need to have a strong project, have many investors and have many partners. But if you meet those requirements then you should implement IEO

therefore, a project should conduct at least two bounty campaigns. at the time of ICO sales also after the platform was running. however, bounty hunters can build a project community to be strong. Bounty Hunter will become an instant trader in the market and investors will love it.

Yes, building a platform that is advanced, reliable and, of course, brings real and practical value is very difficult, because it requires people who have experience in their respective fields in order to create an advanced and reliable platform.

I'm so sure that those developers who had problem with funds for developing their projects build crappy projects, if your project is new, interesting, useful and well built many investors will have interest in your project, new projects that I'm seeing this days are something we've already seen countless times before

Yes, I do agree with you, because right now many ICO's have been failing consistently and that's the reason it is pretty enough to go with IEO. As well you need a great team which may have to work constructed in development as well as promoting itself. If all this condition meets as itself then your project would do well.

I agree with you because now investors are more interested in investing in IEO while many ICO investors are not interested, spend a lot of capital which is quite large if they switch to IEO but that is not a problem.

How do you know that many of the current project developers are ugly? and I am very surprised at you when you say "the new project that I saw today is something that we have seen many times before", what project did you see before? because I saw you entered this forum on June 01, 2020, but as if you already know everything about the projects in this forum, please give me an answer, I'll wait.

Why do you still want to plan an ICO? Don't you know that ICO is no longer trusted by investors? if you still insist on doing an ICO I am not sure it will work, now is a selling trend using IEO because investors feel more secure about security and token listings and this method is better than ICO

people tend not to recommend ICO at this time, moreover, the quality of ICO is already very bad in the eyes of investors. however, IEO is becoming a substitute for ICO today. so, when you think about developing a project, then choose IEO. it may cost money to sell through IEO, but it proves the seriousness of the developer to develop the project they have.

Don't worry, let him develop ICO in his own way, when he already knows that developing an ICO is just a waste of time, then that will also be a good lesson for himself, hopefully he can quickly realize this so he can build a better one.

It looks like he has an intention to create a product but i can't sure if that will be a useful product as he doesn't even know how to do fundraising or create a successful ico and that means if he was also a newcomer in the cryptocurrency too.

The biggest reason why projects fail is the fact that either the team or the community has too much of it and someone eventually sells it. You have to give people a reason to buy it, the reason could be "buy it because it is going up" but you have to make them believe it, normally that is NEVER a reason to make them buy it, there is a great "what if it doesn't?" respond to it and you will have hard time finding a way to explain why it wouldn't.

So, I would say find a reason why people should buy it and do not make it something simple, make it something crucial for the coin/token, that way people will keep on buying constantly and the price will go up. The biggest example is BNB, people buy it because with it you will pay less fee's on binance, the biggest exchange on the world, so it is always smart to buy it because either you will use it for less fee or you just invest and wait for others to use it while price goes up and sell.

even though he just came to crypto but at least he has a real product and some teams that have experience in crypto will make it easy to sell tokens. but if he does not have a product he should not waste time doing ICO because 99% will definitely fail.

To me, a brilliant way to have a successfuly ico is to avoid it totally, ico as a means of crowdfunding in the year 2020 is a no no, and it won't bring any investors or project capital. As a new project, i suggest you find and attract private investors first; then have a private seed. Then you can proceed next by hodling an ieo event in a reputable exchange platform.

A successful ICO for me is not about the sales. Because there are many ICO that sold their tokens at full but suddenly becomes a shit when they are hitting the exchange. Usually, they become scam ICO since they only want is profits. A successful has a serious developer and lots of partnership. They want to grow their community better for everyday. They won`t settle in one exchange but promote it to the entire community. They have the working MVP, and when I saw it. i definitely buy more and save it for a long term investment.

First and foremost, you and the team should have to be consistent and transparent about your project. Things that are very important for investors will never give doubts about the project and could possibly gain trust from them (which is very important in the case today). Isn't matter how big is your project but the most important is you run legally and that the community will gain benefits from it not only your team and the creator of this ICO.

Never think to fool us because that would be your biggest mistake and it turns you out just like it happens to many scam and fake ICO. Don't be like them and you'll be fined.

I think the question on OP has already got the answer. ICO isn't the best choice anymore for fundraising. Investors don't trust ICOs because of too many negative issues on ICOs. There is a high risk to fail reaching the softcap if you keep providing an ICO for your project. You are better to think about providing an IEO on top exchange. If you have no enough funds to provide in Binance, try to other top exchanges. There are many top and reputable exchanges that deserve to be the options.

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Please lock the thread if you have got enough ideas, @Arch Crypton Game.

First of all, several individuals in this forum have been scammed through ICOs so i would advice you really show this community of your commitment towards developing this project to a standard where you can equally come up with an MVP then later you can ask for an ICO or IEO. I am sure if you put in this strategy you will get investors if you should hold an ICO.

now IEO is more desirable than ICO, if your Project wants to succeed try doing IEO on large Exchange like Binance, Bitfinex, Poloniex, with the concept of your latest Project, maybe a large Exchange will be interested in launching an IEO Launchpad for your project

Right, I think OP has got the right answer from us, many of us advise the OP not to do ICO because investors no longer trust ICO anymore, I agree with your suggestion, it's better to collect much funds as possible to make IEO on large Exchange like Binance, Kucoin or Okex. I am sure their project will be successful.

To have a successful ICO you need to prove the worth of your project and a clear goal. A product that can solve real problem is what we need for people to support your ico, so if you think you have it all then it has a possibility to succeed.

However ico is not as popular like before due to scam, so I think it will be hard to convince investors to take risk because of their past experiences.

There was a problem before he wants to do that just like how credible his project to be listed on those major exchange sites? hundreds project have been failed to fulfill all of qualifications that has already made by those major exchange sites

Not quite about luck! To have a ticket to participate on those Exchanges, first of all, you have to present a clear plan of your project. Next, you have to develop and show others your project's strengths to attract investors and participants. In order to be listed as IEO on those Exchanges platform, they'll follow you along for a while to make sure your team is actually working on the project before bring you in!

Every new project in this market will need to go for a private sale and raise softcap before going for ICO. it will be easy with ICO if the project got at least a product to get in the market at launch, get some attractive partners that can claim the affiliation on their media and get confirmation from acclaimed exchanges to get listed on them ASAP. Investors needs assurance of credibility, profitability and sustainability.

Yes, I think there are lots of things that you're going to do to ensure that you're heading the right way with launching your ICO. And I believe that if you take time to do some research and read about the experience of those that have tried launching an ICO you will be able to understand how they were able to do it.

For me I think the things that really matters; first I will be starting with having the right team: you need to have a strong team, if possible, one that has already had the experience, and skilled. And the next thing you should be considering is the location you're launching it. The location matters too, that's why I said you should do some research to understand everything about ICO and how it works. This is not something that anyone will really have the time to be explaining in the comments. There are already contents online that are dedicated to explaining all these things.

There were not worthy ICOs for a long time already, so it is quite difficult to attract the attention of the crypto community. This might be a combination of good technology, investors and Exchange partnerships.

of course all places of exchange prefer to keep looking for platforms that have very useful and truly trusted projects so that the place of exchange when launching the project is not afraid when a scam happens, because if a scam will only make the reputation of the place of exchange a bad name and damage the reputation of the place of exchange.

ICO way back 2017 became trending by that time, and no doubt that there are lot of bounty hunters earned big during that period of time.
But I cannot say if that will work at the moment. Because, We all know that IEO is much more trusted than ICO so far. We saw its advantages compared to ICO. But I am not saying that you or we cannot able to earn in the ICO of course not, probably its hard to seek the legit ico at the present time now.

Forget ICO, please use IEO to sell your token. I am very sure if you continue to do ICO then the success of the project is only 10% but if you do IEO on a large exchange then the success rate is 90%

This is half advice, you should let OP know that some exchanges are bad for new IEO projects, they have fake volumes, wash trading and bad reputations, they need to be avoided at all cost, for example p2pb2b, chainX exchange, exmarket, latoken, etc

even when using IEO, that doesn't guarantee success. it's just that the use of IEO is far better than ICO today. Well, I think it would be far better to choose IEO with a popular market. so far, people are very difficult to support ICO again.

Of course the OP must choose a large Exchange like Binance, Huobi or Kucoin to make an IEO, and stay away from the Exchange you mentioned above. Today, IEO project is better than ICO project, so I hope the OP can accept all our advices here.

More investors now choose IEO because this type of investment has become very popular in the last two years. Of course, before joining IEO, you should choose exchanges with a good reputation because those exchanges will ensure you profit after being listed.

However, getting tickets to join these projects will be very difficult because you have to compete with thousands of other investors around the world.

Agree , but if the projects has good usecase and listed on popular exchanges it might be possible that the project will be well known by the investor.  And tried to invest if it has high potential of being successful.

That's for the long term roadmap but can you expect it to happen for a new project especially when it was being created by new developers that didn't know about how the crypto works today? It's not like that and the thread creator must learn even more about this.

If he wants to continue with the ICO, I believe he only has a 1% chance of success in this market. And if he wants to use IEO to raise funds, he has to deal with major exchanges in this market. Because if IEO is small, it will fail like ICO

If you want to develop an ICO project in order to succeed then for now it needs a maximum process because many investors are not convinced anymore invest in the ICO project because many are experiencing losses and some of the investors have already switched to IEO, and nowadays there are some ICO projects doing exchanges with potential coins and they can finish the project to the end.

I believe he also really wants to implement IEO to help with the fundraising project, but maybe for some reason. It is like there is not enough budget and reputation to meet the needs of the exchange, so he cannot implement IEO at the present time.

No one will waste their time and money on ICOs at this stage, investors are much more careful than before and they will never make this mistake. They only participate in IEO at major exchanges or invest in leading projects in this market

Many from those investors who experienced scam investment are gone, thinking that this venue of investment are just waste of time and money.

If you really aiming to succeed you need to allocate enough  budget to list your project to a well known and reputable exchange, huge amount of money but worthed if you are really true to your project.

The right recommendation is to do IEO, although it does not guarantee big success. But at least the effort to do IEO is better than doing ICO. We all know that ICO is not a good choice. What's more projects that do ICO, no product is expected.

Yes, and if you don't want to get tired and don't want to be disappointed, then it's better not to develop ICO projects anymore, because people's responses to ICO have faded and they don't even include investors' responses, so develop projects that are better than ICO for now.

Yes these are the right to do when someone will be launching an ICO for the near future. Just like you said, ICO is already in the bad situation right now. You don't want to trust when the reputation is already damaged. I think they need to restart it again and rebuild what should be the ICO/IEO is all about. Trust is very important. Exchange sites will be a good front for successful campaign and learn to organize some series of conference and make the people especially investors feels that you are true and do not engage with bad exchange sites.

One of the things you can to successfully promote your project is the use of influential people in the industry of crypto. if you can't do that, try to look for a legit crypto rating website to rate your project. most of the Bounty project that had been promoted by Yahoo and Hhampuz is the one who always successful. So try to consider to make some bounty but limited to be managed by these two popular managers.

You are right, people have lost their faith in ICO because most of the investors are not showing any interest in ICO, we have already faced many issues with ICO and lots of scams were identified by the people and lost their reputation towards ICO's.

Too many scammer have taken advantage of ICOs and created useless projects, I've also lost a lot when investing in ICOs in 2018, and I will never come back again. Currently only IEO is good for us to learn and invest

Many ideas and opinions can be used for successful ICO. But each concept must be realistic and usable. If your project is based on a real-life product or service, it will attract more investors. Moreover, you must have a definite future plan and it must be transformed into reality. And you must work hard on the project and work on its development. If people can accurately gather information about the future potential of your projector and its token of use, it can be a success.

What I would say here - not just waiting matters, but more exploring. For example, talking about me, I am not just focusing on one or another new product, but choosing the industry and start exploring. So basically, with such an approach I can get deeper into the field. And these days there is a strong product on almost any field

Ok, and what markets are you now following from the growing ones? Probably even any solutions you can recommend? Cause I am not an expert, so would definitely be interested to talk to experienced person here

The one I would probably outline is Centric token. Cause basically the one is staying for new and unique standards on the field

And can you share more on the solution itself? Cause I am curious to her

Centric is coming with 2 tokens. The first token, Centric Rise, is the network's transactional currency - it steadily increases in price hourly in accordance with immutable price blocks set publicly one year in advance. The second token, Centric Cash, is pegged to the first and will freely trade on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Google them to check more

to be able to obtain a successful ICO - the community should see new ideas regarding the project, not as repetitive ideas.. even the project has powerful marketing but the community does not want its useless.. there are a lot of ico's failed last time because of no community involvement

The problem is most investors are already disappointed with blockchain projects so right now, to be successful in raising funds is like punch in the air. Unless, you are truly backed by famous companies. I think, there's no need to ask how you can be successful in handling ICO but rather look for potential big whales that are willing to finance your project. If you believe you have novel idea here, pitch it to them and if your foundation is rock solid, I don't think they will say no.

And for now if you want to build a new project with a new idea, then don't use fundraising methods through ICO anymore, because ICO's reputation is already so bad that even though there are new ideas in the project the community will never trust the project again.

Yes, even if how good the idea of the project, there is no point if there will be no investors to come. Investors are already avoiding the crowdfunding as they don't make any profit from it. Agree from what you have said, unless they have someone in their back that can support their project to advertise to big investors, as long as they like the idea of the project, they will become successful.

ICO is no more mate, IEO is the best presently and to come out with good results you have to be careful which exchange you choose or will choose for raising fund, good exchanges means good results