What I am observing is that it is happening rarely nowadays for an ICO to reach the hard cap. There are no fresh money coming in the ecosystem the last months and whales are keeping their positions I guess. The flipping en masse days are over I think.

The project seems solid. Currently, the admins in the Telegram group are talking about some big partnerships with automobile companies that will embed their technology when producing the cars. Helbiz is going to be listed on an exchange on 26th April and the ICO teams thinks it will open at 10x the ICO price. I am very skeptical of it happening, but we will see.

As usual, if the people want something, they will get it in one way or another. The Chinese ban didn't stop Chinese crypto entusiasts from particiapting in the market.
The Telegram ban won't stop the Russians.

I definitely think this is a new trend and it's been here for a while. More and more ICOs are going the route of private sales lately to avoid regulatory problems.
So, entering a pre-sale requires big investments. Big threshold leads to formation of pools.

EOS is the biggest wild card in the space for me. If we go back in time and see how Steem was started and all of the whaling going on in DPOS, it seems like not the best place for an investor to be. Sure, it may become a great project. Sure, you are probably not gonna loose money with it. But in a whale-ish environment I don't feel that comfortable.

There are speculations about Hashgraph doing an ICO with 100M$ hardcap. I heard some private sale deals are being discussed, but nothing official yet. We will probably have to wait some more time.

We have already passed the stage when partnership news were booming the price. Everybody is exploiting it now, but it is nothing new under the sun anymore.
Adoption will happen. Nobody questions that anymore. Everything works the first time only.

Bountyhive is a very convenient platform. I love it. So easy to navigate and everything is set in place. The problem is the ICOs there (Dropil excluded) don't collect much money.
At least the ones this month. But we are in a market bottom, so it may be the reason too.

The best bounties are the ones with the least participants, because of the stakes system. Usually, that are bounties that don't run here at bitcointalk, but rather in Medium, bounty portals or the ICO has a bounty platform itself. Parkgene was very lucrative exactly because of this.

There is no one universal answer to this questions. The variables are way too much. Sometimes ICOs hit hard cap and open below ICO price (+discounts). It depends on whether you are buying with fresh fiat money or BTC/ETH. It depends whether it is a bull market or bear market.

This is the first time I hear that Nollywood exists. And I am not interested to learn more about it. So, it will remain a very niche regional project in my opinion.
Global worldwide platforms are always better to invest in IMO.

If you are asking in bitcointalk thread how to price your ICO, then you shouldn't be doing an ICO, buddy. This is the truth and you should see it.
Running an ICO is a very responsible task and a lot of various skill sets and high-level professionalism is required in order to succeed. Not asking the basic ABC question in a crypto forum.

There is a lot of complaints about this exchange. I used it 2 times. No problems the first time. The second there was some maintanance situation with Litecoin and withdrawal stuck for 10 days. I wrote to support and they quickly reverted it and I withdrew through ether.
The definitely have some problems and I think they are juggling through not enough liquidity. Seems dangerous place.

Dropil seems a great project and I am hearing only good things about DEX so far (it is not a decetralized exchange). However, it has been active for only a couple of days and we have to see it work in longer period of time to judge its performance.
We should see how it performs in different market conditions.
If it works fine 5 months, but in some odd and rare circumstances produces large mistakes, then it may be worthless.
I am following it with interest.

Coinmarketcap lists only coins that have trading volume above certain threshould.
They have the full terms and prerequisites for listing a coin on their website.

A good balance between budget and a good idea. But if you have to choose one, I would choose a good idea. Ideas bring money naturally if they are good.

Yeah, I can definitely see this trend. Cryptocurrencies just opened up so many niches and new correlations are emerging. A whole new world where everyone can get a piece of, no matter what his ocupation in the real world is.

Utility tokens do exist for now. But its days are numbered. Once the swapping solutions like STK become ready for use, there will be zero incentive for anybody to hold anything else besides Bitcoin.

Technical analysis is just a tool in your arsenal. Better with it without it. But TA alone, can't get you far. Especially in a market that small like cryptocurrencies.

There is no development on the regulatory issue. Everyone is waiting for it, but it is a slow process.
On the other hand there is no new technological advancements that ease adoption.
And lastly, everyone now knows about crypto including grandmas. Whoever wanted to enter did it in December. No new fresh believers for now.