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of course a good investor will first do its own research (whitepaper, roadmap and etc), besides that what is your biggest motivation?

As for me, team is one of the factors of good ICO project. I can not trust and invest if I cann't find informations abouts team members. Also promotion is important. I do not like when managers use onle one or two platforms to comunicate with target audience and potential investors. In addition to the usual telegram there shoul be  reddit, medium, steemet. Upvotes.io (https://upvotes.io/buy-reddit-upvotes/) can help with reddit.

As an investor the thing I do check out first is the projects usage and benefit that it can give out to humankind. If I do see that it can give convenience then I would really prefer this and next would be the team behind it because ideas wont really be molded and created if theres no team behind will pursue to make it as a reality. To the things mentioned on poll specially big investors and potential partnerships then this do happen mostly before.

I can't really comment on ICO's but for investments in general it needs to:
1. Have future potential - A practical use or application that people will need
2. Be undervalued - Not be the latest trend or fashion (therefore not in the news)
3. Be at key technical levels - preferably strong support
4. Have trustworthy people behind it - check their website and linkedin profiles

When weighing a potential investment option.
I consider factors like,
The team; how experienced and credible are they.
Also they have to be qualified to handle the project.

The process; Customer service, website upgrades.
Commitments.
The working product.

When weighing a potential investment option.
I consider factors like,
The team; how experienced and credible are they.
Also they have to be qualified to handle the project.

The process; Customer service, website upgrades.
Commitments.
The working product.

Is this all about ICOs?

Use case is one of the important factors that most of the investors are forgetting.

It has been focused to road map, white papers, teams and other stuffs related to the team. But what's the use of that ICO token afterwards?

If it doesn't have valuable usage, don't consider it.

The first selling factor for me is the objective or purpose of the coin. This will make the product to be cherished by the people on the purpose it is meant to solve. The purpose of a coin is its actual selling point.

I think you are referring to ICOs before I ever make any investment I realize the following:

 - Hide information: Unless the purpose of the project is privacy, the survival of the project information unknown is a bad indicator that drives me to not invest.
 - The benefit of the project: If the project does not solve a problem or offer something, it will have no future.
reversed
 - Source code: If there is no reason to hide the code, I will not invest.

The rest of the factors "(whitepaper, roadmap, team, ads and etc)" are not as effective as they can be obtained if they pay about $ 1000-10,000

Before investing background check and due dilligence are the must. What is important for me is credibility of the team behind the project, open and transparent information sharing, the quality and potential future of the project.
If anything at all looks suspicious or something relevant can't be checked I wouldn't invest.

A good investor will do background check whatever it takes from any possible sources to the people behind the team. Reading whitepaper and roadmap is not the main course when dealing in a ICO because it's obvious that for a project to become hype and "trustworthy" they need to have a good and detailed whitepaper and roadmap.

The transparency of the team behind any project is a must. It will be my number 1 criteria if ever I will go back to ICO world. Also how well they are marketing their product and doing real life seminars and events about what the project is all about.

An investor tends to provide capital and work behind the project. they will monitor every project activity. before dropping investment they review each request. starting from the background of the road map and the budget needed. until after the project, does it work as planned or not.

Whitepaper? I no longer trust them because they can just hire someone to write for them. Scammers are willing to pay good money to write them so that they hide their real intentions. And don't buy the hype, see if the project has use in real life. You can also investigate the team behind (Linkedin or Github profiles) and see if they are legit or at least a very active member.

Balance your finances and see what you have to join. Get more knowledge, study the project and determine the direction. Plan well and ask some friends to know about the market, then discuss the final statement. Then invest.

yes it is true, to be more confident with what we will invest, we must do our own research to be more confident. usually I always see the use of the project for its potential in the future of cryptocurrency. like the latest innovations that can bring cryptocurrency more developed, because it will usually be an extraordinary ICO.

Agree with 1& 2, more or less, although I would argue that an investment doesn't necessarily have to be undervalued to be attractive.

I have to say, I've never invested in any of these ICOs.  I think most are scams, and if they're not scams then they're unnecessary projects that will never make money.  And there's also no way you can say with a straight face whether the token from an ICO is undervalued or not.  It's all guesswork.

#3 I definitely don't agree with, since I think TA is complete crap.  People put far too much weight into the technicals, whether it's coins or stocks or what have you.

#4 is meh.  It's hard for anyone to really evaluate people you don't know, since they're going to be putting on their best face--and they and the team could very easily turn around and scam in the end.  With ICO projects, it's important that the devs are real people.  It's almost laughable that anyone would have to write that, but we've seen so many scammers steal pictures from the internet and pass them off as their team.  But it is important that good people are running whatever you're investing in.  As I said, it's just hard to tell sometimes, especially in crypto where there's never usually a lot of transparency.

There is no important answer: a growing or stable market. In such markets, the chance of successful investing increases, and this is an important factor.

I think every of these options you gave are very important and should be checked for sure. The number as the first comment said should be the team that is behind the project, and I think when the term ‘Team’ is mentioned it has to do with the partnerships and the individuals behind the project, especially the big names.

When there is a good partnership then you don’t have to worry about the capital that is being used to fund the project cause everything is going to be just fine as long as they have a good team and investors.

I often do some analysis and share it with my friends before investing in cryptocurrencies. If everyone agrees, then I will not hesitate to invest!

I agree with someone who chooses devs is the most important factor when choosing an ICO. Those who will determine the future of the ICO, be it popular and lead to a scam. Their social media that we have to know, and see the activity in the social media or someone can directly connect skype to prove he/her is real. And the background about devs is also important, whether he is able to do and resolve all the things that have been written on the roadmap and whitepaper.

First I consider the real world value of this project. then I check the team behind it. then I consider the community behind that particular project.

Investments puts my money into a situational risk, so if ever i want to invest i will make sure that my money will be refunded if the company/project/ICO, fail or will be postponed.
these are the things i want to consider the most,  i don't care to what kind of platform do the dev/staffs/owner,  has, because for sure if an investment is landed to where would it actually be, then profits are sure win. 
Support is the best factor; trusted and legit are best option.

P. S.
I voted the none of the above.

Maybe you are pertaining to an ICO. I'm not an investor myself but I can site some factors that I know.

1. Hype - this is the top factor that most people is following. If the project has high hype, their is a chance that the ICO will finish the crowdsale in hours or days only.

2. Technology - What is its technology?? How can the project benefit the people and etc.

3. Team - Are they showing theirselves in public?? Are they not hiding something? The team itself is one of the core factors before you invest.

Maybe there are some more :)

same here . i do only invest on the coins that you'v mentioned above because i feel safe if i know that my investments are already known to be legit because they are already existed for years . spending a little is also what im doing because i cannot afford to loose big even if i already know that my investments are solid because there is still a chance that they cannot give you a sustainable profit for a longer time and i also need some cash on a certain basis , thats why i dont have a choice to sell my holdings if  i badly need the money .

what interest me is the capital behind the project because if theres no capital most likely you will lose your investment.

the risk just like gambling,the adrenaline rush knowing you took great risk and ending up a winner! with lots of profit showing big value in your investment.

For me the most important thing in investing into an ICO project or any platform is transparency of the people behind it. If the CEO exist, if there is a good team of devs or not and if there are other physical investment that company has in real estate, gold or has bank assets. If all that information is legit then why hesitate to invest.

I’m not going to lie, whenever I’m checking all these I first of all check who they are partnering with, that first will tell me whether they are legit or not, cause I prefer to go for those that are partnering with big names. Apart from that, the next thing I do is check their team, but before I do that I might have first done a research with Google and check what people has to say about it through the reviews I’m seeing online.

You’re right. Capital is very important though that is not something I would like to check first, I would rather check the team behind the project and their partnerships with other people, individuals and companies and if those are the big names, then I’m okay. But you know what? This topic just don’t make sense, cause you can’t just check one thing and leave the rest lol. You must check every thing about that particular project to be sure it’s legit. So all of them are very important.

Most of my investment may change for a number of reasons, but most of the investment is to invest with friends around me!

Everything you must consider when investing in any ICO so you can make sure to be in a good project but some ICO even they got all your criteria they still failed on their project. Most of the success ICO right now are below their ICO price, so I think its quiet risky to invest on the ICO since the market is dump try to analyze the market and think twice before you invest.

Question:   what is a main  factor between these that motivate you to invest into a project ?
 BIG name investors
 partnerships
 Capital behind project
 news outlets coverage
 none of the above

I usually look who are the "Partners in business" of that specific crypto project. Simple, if that project has or have a lot of good partners... it means that project is trusted by those who already existed business and it is no joke at all. It's not easy to have a partners that will support all the plan of a newly created project. How much more if that partner is a big one?

Even if big name investors and capital manage to get into a project it doesn't always mean it is legit - sometimes it is still one big scam or the team running the project is just not very good. I think it is the things like the vision, the purpose, the team, the finances, possible outcomes and opportunities, the costs involved, the technology that are probably more important. The financials is so hard to find about projects cause it is generally opaque, no-one opens the books up.

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I think what needs to be added is the team from the project, aka the people behind the project, whether they have experience and also what needs to be considered is whether the project advisor has a good track record

Everyone have different motivation when it comes to taking investment decision. I have seen a project launched on the forum with a scandalous team member but still came out as a success because the focus was on the project rather than one of the team member.

As a motivation factor for me, the rally point is more of the people behind the project as more often than not, the success of every project is largely dependent of this factor. A good team will come up with workable idea other than imaginations without any iota of implementation. Its along the line that they would then discover the project is no longer viable which gives them the only option to bolt.

A good team would plan implementations and phases to the delight of the investors and would be committed to seeing it happen. In a case of tenable unforeseen circumstances they communicate effectively to their investors with an active community managers ready to engage and answer various questions in due time. For projects like this, even though the beginning might be tough, I tend to be more calm with them long-term than others.

Indeed, the use of the token or the services they offered is one of the important factor to see if their project will going to succeed or will last long.

Before investing I usually check the website, the team ( a reputable member in the team with a background of past successful project is an edge for me and I consider as plus factor ), roadmap and their whitepaper to have an idea how genuine they are. I also read some reviews from other users especially in this forum that can help me to decide if the project is worth investing or not.

I think the news media is the main factor in determining my investment project, but I will not easily believe in some news media. I will judge the authenticity of the news through various analysis!

I consider a variety of factors when selecting an investment venture.
The team behind the project.
The product
The process.
The hype (publicity)

And one important factor us timing.
Do you buy during the ICO, or on an exchange?
You need a perfect symmetry to get the best possible outcome.

I usually focus on the project leaders who will decide the success of the project you are investing in. For experienced CEOs and a professional management team they will know how to create communities and proper PR strategies that can attract the attention of the community. This will make the project more successful in the future.

Thats a very good point right there. Partnership is one of the most important factor to look on during investment decision. Of course we look for a well-knowned and succesful people or company behind the new ICO project, this will determine the capability of such project to become succesful in the near future. But, still, that doesnt eliminate the possibility of failure.

I invest into crypto because the possibility of it's growth and the potential to be a global payment for e-commerce abd commerce. One of the reasons why many investors prefers to invest in crypto currency because of it's volatility that can go insanely high or low so everyone who invested in this has gained a lot.

The emerging electronics market has changed a lot. There are wealthy people in the night, because catch the opportunity. And some people, lost white. That further demonstrates that entering this market will have winners and losers. So consider your finances. To limit the risks that may occur unfortunately.

The investment is based upon the trust and stability about the the business otherwise it will not be stable for many places.

the first for me is that the project team is competent and I know it well or not, and the next one is what part of the project is like and how

I consider a lot of factors before putting my money into any venture.
The credibility and technical abilities of the members of the team.
The usability and applications of the working product.
The process, website, customer support, partnership s, landmarks and achievements.
And also the long-term poyof the project.

Before investing any ICO i shall always follow firstly the subject of the project as it is related to recent market. Next, the token value of market which is more important. Roadmap of that ICO is also very important which will be described into the website. Team and their experience in previous management in ICO is also be looked by my eyes before my investing. So i can say none of here that is said for voting.

Before you want to learn an ICO for investment, you should see the project information that is practical and effective. I usually focus on their advertising and the project they offer. Then I looked at the participants and the work team.

These days, many projects are just coming up. So, it makes it really to difficult to know which one is the really deal or not. Even the most experienced of investors still fall victims. Honestly, one can see all the good signs before investing. Then all of a sudden, things wrong and you find out that it was the wrong choice. In all, I look out for the team behind a project before investing. A good team under normal circumstances always yields great results. And of course the project needs to have a certain level of exposure too.

While I do not invest without taking a critical look at the team behind the project, I also give much attention to the aim of the project, that is the kind of problem the project seeks to solve.

I spend a lot of time researching the project that I want to invest before making a decision, because it is the most important factor that can bring success to your investment. So be prepared for your good knowledge so that when you find a good project you can research and invest in the right way.

First thing is i do not belive luck. If i need to make anything possible we need to worked hard. Before investing some where i obsearve it well. I follow that where i invested and why do i invest. When i need a coin or project i have a process for choose that good or bad. It is important to invester. There are many channels and web sites which giving investing signals. Personally i dont belive those mutch

My main factors behind an ICO is the team.
With a commited, experienced and credible team, Tyrone other factors would likely fall in place.

Then, there's the product, the process, and partnerships.

- Big names of investors
- partnership
- Team member and efforts
- News

this is the best thing to have for me in any ICO.
this will also serve as a security in your investment that ICO might not turn into scam.
This is just for me but i think this is good for everyone.

I always do the same thing because every details of the project will matter. This is not just about big names behind the project I think its more on the technology or services they offer. Having a good team is a plus in the ICO, big capital is normal for every good ico. Before you invest make sure you’ve done everything to study that project.

Many do not consider that as important because there are many coins that have not a use case and then they become widely successful so people tend to ignore it for that reason, however I agree with you, we need to consider why the coin we are researching is going to be created and if in fact it is solving a real issue, if it is and all the rest of the things we need to look for are in the right place then you are probably looking at a good investment that will make you a lot of money.

On investment factor you will be find the good information available on the white paper alone. This will give all the information from introduction to team details of you believe these information are legit then you can use it for sure.

Risk involvement is there in the crypto currency market. I believe that projects future profit which is defined in the market.

Besides of whitepaper and team members, you must need to know the legal factor of their company if they are really registered in their country where they operate their business, and most of all, make sure that they really have a product to show to their investors, if they have nothing to show, the probability of being a scam is big.

In fact, most of my investment will be integrated into many situations. The options you listed are the main factors that must be considered before investing!

For me my own factor behind an investment is reading the white paper of the ICO then checking on the spreadsheet to know if there ar many people who join their ICO and last one is the money that they have gathered. With the factors that I have mention is the way that makes see if their project is good or not.

Interested in a combination of all factors: the idea, the team, marketing, fees, etc. All these factors are very important. The only way.

What are those etc. that you are saying? can you be specific with it? there are investments that don't do marketing but they are gaining their popularity and trust of the people. These factors you have given are important this isn't the only way.

The team can be trusted but any time of it there can be a quarrel inside the team and that can lead the project to have some issues and problems. I'm considering the real usefulness of that investment and project that we are investing.

A good ICO, its dev team must also have people who are reputable, talented and experienced. With the exception of ICO in the form of MLM, other ICOs publicly launch the dev team and have links to their social networking accounts. Therefore, research on dev team is one of the tasks that need to be done to evaluate the good ICO.

Good project team,their advertisement strategy and even their website design make fall investors to invest on their projects but still all investments comes with risky and risk means profits to be earned so this can be the biggest motivation for most of us to invest on the projects.

Having a good partnership with someone would be critical topic for a business since when you have a good plan and good execution looking for finance and audit team with trouble shooting team would be hard to find and trust wold be the most thing to CO spider as well....

what I often see is the team, their legal entity,their platform, and achieving the initial fundraising, or there are already several well-known investors in the project, by doing a little analysis I will follow their ico by investing some of the funds I have.

You are right it is very important to know all of those things which are really important to have good finance, try to know what are they planning for and what they are using to achieve the goal of life, we are living in modern age so we should not trust anyone blindly, try to know all about them, how much they wana invest and how much they will get as profit so I am sure this thing will give us profit.

By reading the subject line of this topic, I assumed you are talking about general investments but after reading the open-post, I come to know you ahve narrowed down your question only about ICOs or altcoins. Why it is so ? I mean you people must understand that the investment opportunities from this crypt-world is truly unlimited but many people think it is only ICO way of investment opportunity.

My own factors for choosing a coin/token to consider them to invest are, availability of major exchanges, daily trading volume, all time high prices and current prices. After the recent downfall of whole crypto markets, I make my research based on these criteria and found few coins and I read/started few topics to get opinion from this community. This is my double confirmation way of choosing a right coin. and I always invest for long term holding hence I choose with more care.

I would check the below points to make sure that i choose the best project to invest.

Those are;The Project
                 - Project that easily reaches the market

White paper - Details given from A to Z

Roadmap - How their journey has been. Any achievements so far?

Investment - Size of investment decides how far their journey would be

Infrastructure - A firm with infrastructure already in place will certainly succeed in the market opening up an ICO.

Existence in the market - How far they created reputation about them in the market. One with a good reputation will not certainly cheat.

The factor about having nothing to show for before you invest in a coin can be really deceiving, while it is obvious that those that plan to scam their users have nothing to show for, there are many successful projects out there that started that way and yet they delivered a great product so to me the most important aspect of an ico are the developers and their dedication to make their project a success.

I'm just following the news. When important changes are about to happen on the market, there's always predictions on the news. I analyse these predictions of where a particular currency will go and try to make a profit.

One of the first factors is calling the capital through the ICO. In addition to Ethereum, decentralized venture capital firms built on the Ethereum platform have become famous after calling hundreds of millions of dollars.

First poll question and the subject line seems different buddy. Capital of investment is the matter for all the side not only relay on the ICO projects we need to go with the all the side to wide spread our investment to go bigger in the market buddy.

I consider the factors of investment on Trading with the potential coins, Mining with the good algorithms can give profit and investment on the good ICO projects.

Factors means which is real and we need to check  whether it is correct or not.

If you want to invest on any project you need to look somethings when you want to invest on any ICO projects.

White paper is the main factor we need to check when we are looking to invest and make money out of it. Then check the team information whoever invested on the ICO projects. That will be helpful to understand whether it is worthy to invest or not.

If people pay money then experts can create a superb white paper and roadmaps for any kind of project. The team will be one of the good options to check like whether they have completed any projects earlier or not. If it is a totally new team then think to invest your money. I'm not saying new people are not capable but it is risky.

Nowadays I almost stopped investing on these new projects instead prefer to put my money in already established coins due to the high risk of losing our investments and no full proof ways to verify the project is legitimate or not.

This is one of the reasons why I wonder why people invest in empty promises instead of actually looking out for a project with a real product that can actually be very useful in the long run in the space and in the world at large when it comes to bringing a solution to the table. As long as there is no product, no solid team behind the project and no sign of seriousness whatsoever except for the green light of some developers wanting to get rich overnight, I see such investments as one that should be discarded immediately.

The team, in my opinion, is the most vital factor behind any project. They handle the other factors such as the product, marketing, partnership etc.
This is the first thing I check in any potential investment venture.

You own a factor behind investment because we alone who have the decision would invest or not. If we've decided to invest what we earn then that would be an investment in the future.

For me factor investing is a strategy that chooses securities on attributes that are associated with higher returns. The is factor investing can offset potential risks by targeting broad, persistent, and long recognized drivers of returns.Understanding how factors work can help you capture their potential for excess return and reduced risk.It’s about empowering investors to deliberately and directly access ideas to help achieve their financial goals.

As an investor i first love to invest in tokens with best projects than on coins. I always choose the tokens on a less investment and try to go for a reasonable hike. 

It will be our own choice, if we buy some coin then we will have to hold it, for me I am investing in currency because my factor it to have lots of profit I have a plan to make it a business, I am going to invest more money in crypto currency so that it will be easy for me to make proper business to have good future, now a day price is not high so time to buy and hold as an investor I will have to have patience and save my money to make it more than double.

Asides from the market being speculative lately the more, and fundamentals not really tending to make much impact, I would say investing in a coin simply is just all about the trend and how viable the product is in the long run to be able to generate huge support and demand.

Most coins actually are pump and dump coins, and it would take those with real project and great support to be able to find a good support every time in a correction on the way up.

You should see the project information that is practical and effective. I usually focus on their advertising and
the project they offer. Then I looked at the participants and the work team.

Honestly, one can see all the good signs before investing. Then all of a sudden, things wrong and you find out that it was the wrong choice. In all, I look out for the team behind a project before investing. A good team under normal circumstances always yields great results. And of course the project needs to have a certain level of exposure too.

One can see all the good signs before investing. Then all of a sudden, things wrong and you find out that it was the wrong choice. In all, I look out for the team behind a project before investing. A good team under normal circumstances always yields great results. And of course the project needs to have a certain level of exposure too.

maybe the factor why I chose to invest by buying bitcoin and some other cryptocurrency because I realized with cryptocurrency my investment was very safe and I could get a lot of profit from cryptocurrency price movements.

Coins or tokens does not really matter, what is the most important thing is the project idea and knowing what you are actually investing in and not just for the purpose of hype and speculations. The main factor which the OP did not even bother to mention is the availability of a product and this is one thing that is actually very important.

A very unique product idea is what smart investors are always looking to invest in and if you do not have that backed by a quality team, then, I do not see such project as one worth investing.

Team and their experience in previous management in ICO is also be looked by my eyes before my investing. So I can say none of here that is said for voting.

Beside all you listed above my motivation is usually the team members, behind any successful business is a strong team. I look at the team behind a project before I even look at what they're selling. Because I believe a good business idea in the hands of the wrong team is useless but an average idea in the hands of a good team will turn to Gold

To be secured, it has to be managed under big and stablished entity. It should also be feasible and you know the people will definitely like it also. Next is the company's history where you could see whether they lost in the past or tax issues or any other fraud issues involved. You should check also the business' capital and budget.

I have the below list of things to be followed when choosing an ICO. When i pick up an ICO, i do check the project details, roadmap, whitpaper, the company's infrastructure existence, the amount of investment they put in for marketing and for other stuffs, the team and the team members profiles, the partners, the advisers and etc. If these details are covered then yes i would certainly go forward and invest in these tokens.

You should always know the in what you are making an investment because it is your own hard earned money and you should be able to get it back with the good amount of return else it is possible that the project can turn out to be scam and you may lose out the money.

After doing so much research, now I know the biggest factor that I need to make me decide to invest and that is the investor groups that are supporting it. I'm now more interested on projects that has Crypto Venture Capitalist on it because the group does not only want to gain much money but they also want legacy.

Choice is a different thing, but the information you have to fuel your decision making is the main thing here. What is the information about the coin such as the product, team, business idea, implementation, road map and so on, that would make it worthwhile to invest.

If some of these are not ticked on your list as an investor, then I really do not know what you are going to be investing in except an empty promise. No investor want to go that lane based on how the market has been like over the years.

what makes me believe in the project and finally investing in a project is because I read from the whitepaper, see the background of the team and see the project plan they want to develop, if I have very good potential then I will enter and become an investor there.

It is unfortunate that the poll was closed early. 11 people in this is very small for a large community of investors on cryptology. On the results obtained, it is impossible to draw the right conclusions.

Cryptocurrency although only developed in recent years, is still in its early stages due to the fact that the underlying technology is not yet complete as expected. Moreover, if only based on a single technology, the attractiveness of coin will soon be overtaken by new ideas bold from young researchers and more potential.

Reading the whitepaper is the most essential part of investment. In fact it is the first thing that almost every investor do, even if you don't plan to invest in the project immediately. From the whitepaper you get to know about all the project such as the team of the project, technology to be used by the project, financiers of the project and most importantly the objective of the project. After knowing these things it becomes pretty easy for a person to decide whether to invest or not in the concerned.

Everyone is different when choosing an investment place, like you, even though some people choose bitcoin to be used as an investment place but you still choose tokens. Investing in tokens only requires a little capital, but if the token has the potential and experience a significant price increase, you will get a hug profit simply. Different, if you choose the wrong token then you can only let your money disappear. However, bitcoin is not like that, you can still be assured when the price of bitcoin drops drastically that you need to just hold and be patient because the price of bitcoin will recover.

Every person has their own method to try to find good coins in my case I give a huge importance to the developers, the white paper and the roadmap are important but if the developers are not able to realize all of those ideas put in paper then the project is not going to become successful, you need to check the credentials of the developers and see if they are real because if they are not then most likely you are looking at a scam.

You already mentioned what is need to be known, so no need to be asking what’s our biggest motivation because everything needs to be checked 100% to be sure that what you’re going for wouldn’t turn out to be something else in future. You shouldn’t just check 50% and leave the rest, if you do that you would be taking a huge risk. So check everything from A to Z to be sure that your money is safe

I think to be able to see from the success of the existing project you might be able to see from the whitepaper, roadmap and see from the team behind the project because the team that has authenticity and has expertise that will make the project successful.

I check out the following
The White paper..
Call the project manager on Skype.... To ask more question based on their white paper
 And also find out if their objects are easy to achieved

exactly what We frequently observe may be the group, their own lawful organization, their own system, as well as attaining the first fundraising, or even you will find currently a number of well-known traders within the task, through carrying out a small evaluation I'll adhere to their own ico through trading a few of the money I've.

Expertise is a major important things for the project to be successful, we have to be careful while investing in cryptocurrency. Majorly we have to consider the roadmap because after ICO they will start developing the ICO.

Well, even if the poll is closed, discussion still continues which people can still share their ideas, so it does not have to be by all means poll, even though I understand what you are saying. Personally for me, the main thing that motivates me is the team which was not listed on the poll, which was the reason I said it does not count that much.

As long as the team looks like it would do it for me, and there is enough push to get the project out there, and a product that is extremely off the hook, that is enough motivation for me.

I do try to base my investments on fundamentals, the teams involved, likelihood of success, the financial skill of the team, the technical skill of the team, what is the chances of return on my investment. Try to buy the new coins is like angel investing almost. However there are too many scams out there.... Yes too bad that poll ended early

First thing I usually look for besides the white paper etc are the experience base on the past record of the team involving because the project success also rely on them.
Second, the project partnership cause I just like the project been recommend by the company they partner with it.
Third, the registration, license or identity number of the project if they have one this usually motivation the genuinely of a project.

After investing most of my attention, I will keep my coin number up to date and I will also update many knowledge about the price of the coin market.

it looks like you can see it from the white paper they have and see the concepts and objectives of the projects they develop, make sure they have genuine expertise and make sure this project is very useful and very useful for the people, that's a number of factors that I use to enter and invest in the cryptocurrency project.

Check how hype is the project and how many investors want to invest on the project. You can easily check it on the project telegram group, if many investor chat and talking everyday on the telegram and discuss about the ICO, it means many people want to invest and always invest on presale/private sale, because you can get big bonus.

It does not have to be the first thing but in the real sense it is a way to have a deeper insight on the project and the idea behind it while envisioning what it would be like once it actually hits it running. Nevertheless, the reason why I too believe that the whitepaper should come first is because whitepapers can be cloned and you really want to be sure you are not wasting your time, but starting to dig on the team first before anything else, in this way you would know if it would be a whitepaper worth wasting your time to read.

I am just following few telegram groups and they are the first filters to narrow down into few projects from this forum.

before choosing an investment, I will look at the team, whitepaper and also the project and the benefits that will be obtained and also their usefulness, if it is good then I will choose it to become an investment, and the last to be the motivation to become an investor seeking profit

Every project is well prepared, and sometimes I don't detect their deception. Once I felt they were very good (including the team and the whitepaper) and had the product but the results were still scam.

to invest in several existing projects for now I often see from the whitepaper and the team they have, I have to make sure the team is not fake and also make sure their concepts and development are very clear and can produce very high demand so that the project can be successful and you can benefit from investing there.

For me bitcoin is my future. I have many dreams for my future and I think bitcoin is the only source from which I can fulfill my dreams. I can earn money from bitcoin investment and can overcome my financial problems and future dreams and desires. It is an extra business for everyone especially for those who have money but have no time. They can make money here.

One of the most basic rules about investing is to not rely on the person that is trying to sell you something as your main source of information, it is fine to read the white paper and the roadmap and all of that stuff but that is not enough, you need to do your own research you need to read what other people in the forum think about project especially if they are well respected and you need to check if they are who they say they are, only once you do all of that you can invest in a project.

These are the real factors which catch your attention to invest in bitcoin. It is also the rules of business to first investigate and scan the environment and then put your money. Without any research and analysis investing in a specific field could be risky as bitcoin is but it is also a fact that risky investment can give you more profit than normal.

All of them put together is my biggest motivation. This is money we are talking about, something I worked hard to earn and I’m not going to be stupid again in my life to let anyone make away with my money, no way, I can’t. I’ve been fooled a lot of times so now I’m being  very careful and won’t let anyone make a fool of me anymore.

I believe all should be considered but the most factors that counts are the realization of project and the capability of  the team behind the project.

It is necessary to know the records of every person behind the project, their experience and their skills.  We have seen lots of projects being launched with ambitious goal but the team behind it is lacking skills and experience.  Aside from that, we should also considered the reality behind the goal.  Is it achievable or not.

I purposefully do not invest in ICO,especially in recent months,as there has been a lot of fraud. However, I try to follow many of the tokens that successfully after carrying out ICO is still out on the exchange. The main thing for me is a news feed about the development of the project,its partnership with well-known brands, and of course the price. Now a lot of toxins, which cost about 1 cent and which can grow strongly in the coming months, and maybe years.

I think parterships are a very important factor because it can effectively prove the authenticity of the project and increase its success rate!

Honestly, there are several factors that motivate me to deal with crypto.  And, honestly, money is one of the main ones. But it’s not the only thing that matters for me. It’s really interesting for me to deal with crypto, so you can even call me a crypto enthusiast, lol. But it also brings new criteria’s which I mind when I’m choosing crypto resources. For example I really don’t like working with exchanges that has inconvenient interface. Yep, for someone it doesn’t matter at all, but it matters for me. That’s actually one of reasons why I mostly working with cex (https://cex.io/). Yep, they don’t have a lot of different coins, but the site looks great and I enjoy working there.

The tricky way when we tend to invest in ICO, and you are right when choosing a project that according to our research will be good and potential but in the end the project is a scam, it looks stupid for me. But in other hands, investments in ICOs that we know are very promising and people have experienced, so that make the new investors arrive. We need a regulation that oversees and runs an ICO project, it will make us comfortable and make the research we did on the ICO useful.

The most significant reason to invest is a huge buzz around the project. No matter how it was formed, the main thing is its availability. Notice how the market reacted to each partnership between the projects, although in fact it did not mean anything.

When considering the business model and product as planned by the ICO investment project, I consider :
- Is the product attractive ? In addition to being feasible, the product must attract the attention of the crypto community. In other words, it must be something that people will need to solve their problems.

As you may guess there are not many of those projects and if you want to find one like those you will need to read tens of white papers and you will be lucky to find one project that fits that criteria, so it is not surprising that many people are giving up investing in icos because they do not see any kind of innovation that can make this market better.

I would say, its the profit everyone expects out of every single investment. I love to invest and yes i do expect a decent profit out of every investment. I have almost invested few thousands and bought few tokens and few cheapest coins as well. I trust in the tokens i bought as they are with best projects. The coins are with good growth trend as well. Hope to have a good return after few months

Yeah team formation is the most important thing because of them the key to success will be achieved later. if the team they have is not professional or not great in their field. of course their project will only enter in garbage. so first look at how great the team they have in addition to the project goals or ideas are also very important

a research will be very important before we start investing in ICO projects, especially research on the development team that is running the project. because in my opinion the development team of an ICO project will greatly affect the level of success of the project, especially in terms of the programs that are designed which will certainly attract investors to join on the basis of the program from the project.

Important thing is to find out as much as possible about the founders, developers, advisory board members, pre-ICO investors and anyone else involved in the project.

what makes me believe in the project and decide to invest there is a factor of the project they want to develop that you can see on the whitepaper and you also have to see the team behind the project must be experienced and have expertise in the field.

I have yet to meet a single person that has invested money with the idea to lose, we all want that, but what are you looking for? Because there are thousands of projects out there and the amount of money that you have is limited and if you fail at selecting the right coin too many times you will lose all of it, personally what I'm looking for is for developers that are dedicated to the project and that have great knowledge about how cryptocurrencies work, if that is not there I do not invest.

maybe the factor that can make me believe with some of the existing projects is that I can read and see it from the whitepaper and after that look for certainty about the team behind the project in order to know that the person is genuine and not fake.

Along with the whitepaper , I see if I can visit them if they are situated in my country and meet and understand and get clarified all my doubts. It is important to have meeting if you are planning to invest money in any coin or PRE ICO .

the factor that was the reason why I chose to invest in a project that I thought was very worth it might be because of the projects that had a development concept that was very much needed and could attract demand to be so high that it attracted me there, and the most important was the whitepaper and their team.

The main thing that usually gets my attention is when there are big names attached . If I see that an investment is attached to a big name I will usually feel kinda confident about it, cause since they are operating with a big brand why won’t it be a good one? So it’s probably going to work out, but that doesn’t stop me from making the proper research that I’m supposed to make though. I still need to check everything about it to know if it’s going to be truly a good one.

I personally saw from the members of the project team and the second was the whitepaper then news and the last was the market capital of the project
because all investors see team members and also the plans of the project team

I am confident in the professional and well-known team in the cryptocurrency market. I believe that a good team of leaders will give the project a chance to thrive in the future because they have a lot of experience in the market.

factors before entering on some good projects I usually see the concept of this project by reading the whitepaper and seeing the team behind this project. must be ensured that this project has a concept that can generate a lot of requests in order to provide benefits.

Investing on ICO is like we are intend to lend money to someone who hasn't know before, he come to us and try give a project that makes us interested. If we are hasty when we lend money without being recognized first to that person, we ought to aware if someday we will lose our money cause that is our false. We can ask to him and looking for information the purpose him to borrow our money, what his job and can he pay the debt he has borrowed.

As well as when investing in ICO, the first time we look is team or developer. Because they are one of way our money will back, be it in a reduced state or in an increased state. Searching for about the indentity team or developer like, what their expereinced on cryptocurrency industry and their experienced on ICO project. After that, the investor ICO have to see the function of project and project future the ICO, these will determine the amount money that will gain.

You need to be careful with that approach because as far as I know it is not weird for projects to pay people that are known in the field of cryptocurrencies, it is just a marketing move they may seem involved in the project but the truth is they are not, the only involvement they had was to get paid by the project and you cannot rely on the opinion of someone that is being paid to give a positive opinion.

it's possible this issue the reason When i decided to devote by means of obtaining bitcoin and many different cryptocurrency mainly because When i came to the realization having cryptocurrency the investment decision seemed to be incredibly protected in addition to I could truthfully receive many take advantage of cryptocurrency selling price activities.

I often study the project carefully and prioritize projects that have actual product because it is the basis for the project to grow stronger. Professional and experienced management is also very important factor that I often pay attention when choosing new projects to invest.

Do you think that finding the credibility of a project or project team is easy? I don’t think so. Although it is good to know about the project and team but this is cryptocurrency world and you will have to take some risks if you want to invest your money in it and want some profit in the future. Making money from anywhere is not easy. Panic will not let you make money.

The bonus factors are demography, middle class growth, and population growth, creating large needs as a good opportunity for companies to participate in the market, in addition to all the important things to participate in utilizing technology that is increasingly fast.

Well you have to look after the team who is running the ICO and Project. Most of the time if there are few good people in the team, this would mean that project is worth investment.

There are many places to look out for the project rating like ICOBench and other ICO review related sites. Also keep in mind that few of them are also paid review so better study from different sources before investments.

Yeah you are right, looking the team of a certain project is very important and necessary because having a good, reliable, experienced and technical project developers will make you satisfied and confident about your investment and the shining future. I will never invest when I feel any doubt or when I do not know the authentication of a project.

i havent seen many groundbreaking ICOs on last 3 months. for me its more about the team and can it execute what they are proposing.

Hi to all of the members of bitcointalk.

For me, as a person, is very important to create a safety pillow for my family. That is why i chose to invest in crypto, even if it is so risky. When i choose where to invest, i try to analyze all the factors: team, idea, how much was raised and so on and so on. But one of the most important is the idea. If i fill that idea is close to me, i invest. It could be a small sum, but it is. some of my investments were lost, but it is also experience=)

Everything you just mentioned should be the process for choosing an ICO for investment. One might be okay but any damaged spot on your ship can make it to sink while you’re riding. You can’t just make your decision based on one, you need to consider everything about that ICO to be hundred percent sure that it’s a good one and that’ its never going bankrupt or maybe fail in future.

maybe that can be used as your consideration for investing in a project so you can see it by looking through the whitepaper, the plan of the product they want to develop and of course you should be able to see from the team behind the project and make sure they have a team experienced.

You would not see any groundbreaking ICO because the market condition itself has not been favorable, but it is not like ICOs with prospects have been popping up and even though just getting suppressed by the bear market, does not make development to subside for them as long as the teams are active.

Like you said, it is always going to be more about the team, before you even consider the ICO as that would determine the possibilities of future development while looking at the product at hand.

Or in other words we believe in the project idea they carry that has the potential to be used or adopted by many people.
thats why we invested. of course we have to see the team behind the project that we will choose

maybe to be able to choose ico which is good for investment then maybe you can see it from the whitepaper and from the existing team and make sure there is a gituhub in the public so that people can try their smart contract and prove that the original has real development.

the factor that caused me to invest in a new project was probably because
» there was a friend of mine who joined the project
» and many people are investing in the project
» initiator of a project that is already famous in the world of cryptocurrency
» I have often followed several projects that have been made by that person
» has a guarantee that benefits investors
»the given bonus is pretty good
»projects that run faster than usual because many investors join their project

There are actually many factors.I carefully study all the details of the project before investing.I look at the ratings.I look at the team and advisers(sometimes even I go on each profile).The purpose of the project and the niche he wants to occupy.It is also very good if a project has the MVP.(I know there are many projects that have MVP but then do not develop,but still it is very important that MVP was)

I am very interested in the actual product, community and management team of the projects that I invest. These are the three factors that I think directly affect the success and development of the project.
Spend a lot of time analyzing and evaluating the project you want to participate in as it will directly affect your investment.

When I want to invest and become a participant from IO I will usually see from the web display, whitepaper, the team behind the ico and of course I will see the telegram group on ico I have to make sure the first one must have many group members.

Team is actually the first factor that any investor will definitely want to consider first. Humans are handling your money and not bots, and as long as that is applicable, you always want to be rest assured you are not putting it into the wrong hands or just some bunch of people that are looking to get rich off some people all in the name of trying to pitch some sort of cloned investment. As long as you have confidence with the team and you are able to verify them, it is always the best way to go.

Honestly, I really would not think anyone should ever go so deep on a project without at least trying to confirm the legitimacy of the team first.

I feel so many people discard the importance of a team in a project and one thing they do not understand is that a team with no achievement, nothing to show that they have what it takes will not be able to do anything in the long run except if there is a product to at least show that they have been working and at least the prototype looks good.

If there is no team and there is no product, then there is no need going further in checking other details as there are always other better projects to devote your time to. Everyone will agree that finding a good project now a days has become almost an impossible task to risk for hard earned money and this is the simple reason why many people just opt for cold storage rather than struggling with scammers.

All are very important points as people must know that they do play a vital role in deciding and can change your investment perspective int hat coin if you are dissatisfied among any of the above points mentioned. As some or the other are interconnected about the future of the coins.

One of the first factors is calling the capital through the ICO. In addition to Ethereum, decentralized venture capital firms built on the Ethereum platform have become famous after calling hundreds of millions of dollars

Website should not even be the first concern as that can easily be done when you have to pay some good developer to just come up with something and then you can easily see the usage of some word press whatsoever to even quickly pull something up. Also, you have to understand that whitepapers can always be cloned easily and that should not even be an immediate guarantee to investing in a project.

What are important are the team and the product. Is there a visionary team with some pretty good past experience to come up with what they have said they would or just some wannabes, or is there a product that has the chance of being used in the real life or just an empty promise?

Now for me there is not a single factor in the project that can convince me to participate in ICO, no matter how good it is. It's just that I no longer believe in ICO and the opportunity to make money on it.

I don’t really have much investments and that’s because I hardly trust anything I see these days. There are scammers everywhere and most of them are really good in covering up their wicked ways. When I’m checking what ICO to invest in I check everything that I’m supposed to check to be sure that it will be a reliable one and not an ICO that will end up a failure tomorrow. I check investors and partnerships, capital and everything.

I also have a online experience in bitcoin investment, I am a new investors and I have invested a lot of money in bitcoin, I am going to hold my bitcoin for next few years and I am sure about the market that after some time it will surely give me a very good profit.