I never said it was foolproof.  All ICOs are a gamble and yes most ICOs do go up but there is no guarantee.  Also even if it does go up you may forgo even larger profits that you could have had if you waited - e.g. ETHER all time high (so far) was nearly a year after release, so if you held on to your ETHER and sold at that point you would make much more than if you had sold some of your coins in the first pump. 

On the other hand NEUCOIN went down almost immediately after launch and doesn't seem likely to ever even reach the ICO price again.  It's all a question of risk and how much risk you want to take.  None of us have a crystal ball (at least one that works) and can predict the future with 100% accuracy. 

When BTC was about to hit $1 many people were saying that it was the right time to sell because it would never sustain such a high value and would soon crash down to a few cents.  You just never know for sure and that is cryptocurrency in general.

In the case of WAVES the POS/lending model gives an alternative way to increase your holdings though.  Also given the high community interest and buzz surrounding WAVES I think if anything the risk will be more about lost profits from selling early so people should think carefully about what would bother them more - losing their initial investment or doing the equivalent of selling their WAVES early like those who sold BTC for a $1.

Stop guys dont buy anymore, my waves get less and less.

Smart people sell some of their holdings early on after an ICO finishes as a means of hedging their bets.  That way if the price continues to rise they still hold a decent amount of the coin/currency and if the price falls they can keep some of their BTC and use it to reinvest in another coin or if they truly believe in the coin they can buy back at a lower price thereby increasing their holdings.  Even if you 100% believe in a coin it makes sense to do this in order to protect yourself.  No matter how strong a business model a coin has it will inevitably rise and fall - so why not take advantage of that?

Buti naka sali pa ako sa 10% bonus yun nga lng medyo maliit lang... Sayang yung 20% huli na ako pero try ko ulit dagdagan... Looking forward sana project na ito sa mag success ito...  

Too many ICO, not nuff btc. First world nerd problens

I am commending the team on these marketing efforts they have not let anyone down yet and are going above and beyond. This sort of marketing is great keep it up!

a partner with Mycelium could be great!!

★ Development timeline and ICO timeline
- Lightweight Client and test net will be launched before the end of the crowdfunding campaign, in May, 2016.
- Main net will be launched in late Summer - Fall 2016.

There is no such thing as "exact date of the launch" It is real time work with new code.

New things will be implemented in time and another ones will be added constantly after the launch also. It is long term project with ongoing development.

Main features are expected to be realesed according to timeline in the ann. We speeded up a little which is good.

First goal is to have stable beta mainnet, first version of lite client ready and enable investors to withdraw their tokens to their Waves addresses or at least exchanges Waves wallets at the end of the ICO. On schedule.

If I have to give this project any credit, then it would be because of their excellent PR campaign. It's crazy to see how the altcoin movement got so strong, people are looking for any ways to get in early into anything as long as they gain a fast ROI or profit.
Regardless i'm not against any coin project as long as it contributes with something new/different.

No, after the ICO there will be a feature where you will follow twitter and like facebook to receive bounties after.
As i have read few pages back.

As a developer, I have to respect this.  You guys have been honest since day-one and have stated the fact that Lisk is a fork and improvement upon Crypti.  As such, I imagine you guys have a long laundry list of changes that you want to make.  Some can and should be made before launch while others can be put on the back burner for post-launch updates.

I also can understand why the team may have initially ignored updating the DB infrastructure.  It's not a small change.  If the original Crypti dev decided to use SQLLite, it has proven that SQLLite can work on a project with limited success.

This type of change/update proves that the Lisk devs want the launch to go as smoothly as possible.  With limited testnet usage (only the hardcore supporters are running test nodes ATM) then it is important to make sure that once the official release takes place, the underlying DB can handle the mass influx of new transactions.

Apparently after launch, and during it's peak usage, Crypti didn't experience any problems with the SQLLite db.  That is good.  However, if LiskHQ (and the other devs) had a bad "feeling" about sticking with the current tech, I 100% support the delays so that they can update the back-end db TODAY, rather than later when usage spikes and the blockchain starts crumbling from excessive load.

TL;DR

LiskHQ and the other devs are making a wise decision to fix a problem before it becomes a legitimate issue.  They are exercising foresight in taking care of Lisk, rather than waiting for bugs to become issues that bring the blockchain to a halt until a *cough* rushed *cough* patch has to be released.