I think that Ether and many tokens have a strong coupling with Bitcoin in terms of price and I think that it should not be this way if we look at value objectively. Do you see signs in the market of these coins being finally diverging in value?

Do you have any good reason to believe that the crypto market is going to grow this year? Do you think we may end up in all red? I do not see the growth and happy investing of last years.

What are the main skill to become a community manager? Can you make your living out of it? Do you have to know how to program, etc.. or is it just PR? Has anyone tried to be a CM?

Does a good Github and a publicly written smart contract give you any assurance regarding the legitimacy of an ICO? How? I am thinking of X-moneta, that aims to base the whole system on smart contracts.

What are the advantages for the token creator of these coins? Ethereum, XEM NEO & Waves all support one form or another of tokenisation.  Have you got experience or know the differences?

Do you think that banks, governments and investment companies such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and other will try to replace the decentralised coins and try to lure their clients to invest into their own private blockchains? What can be done to prevent that?

I am opening this thread so that people who have been on ICOs and have endured them can provide a guide for "good practice" for companies launching ICOs.

PLEASE DON´T POST GENERIC COMMENTS. I intend to curate the thread and edit this message is sufficient members have relevant things to say. If you want to spam, there are many threads out there.

Curated contributions:

- Obviously, don´t scam.
- Set clear Soft and Hard Caps and don´t change them.
- Have your telegram groups moderated.
- Have a group for bounties and treat your hunters as partners, not as beggars.
- Don´t make decisions that harm your community and investors. It will come back as negative publicity.
- Do no whitelist three times more contributors than what you need. At a certain point is best to close the list because you will create a community of angry people than will not ever buy your token.
- Don´t ignore your community and have a decent response time.
- Set realistic soft and hard caps and do what is required to achieve them.
- Fix the dealines / dates and adhere to them.

Please, add...

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I know that many people invest into ico's without much knowledge. But I would like to learn how to evaluate the fundamental value of a token. can anyone give me a hint on this please?

There are some collective purchase token services like Bank to the Future or Tokenator that offer discounts for investors in some token sales. I would not ever invest on an ICO that has been selling tokens with heavy discounts. Would you do it?

For those who invest in ICOs, would you consider and advantage to have an international or multicultural team or would you rather invest in a local team? What are the advantages and disadvantages o each for you?

Edited to add conclusions:

Most people prefer international teams because they can gather experience across the world.
Some people like local teams, because they can work together more easily and know each other better.

Hi all, I would like to have a rough idea of the fees for different exchanges and coins. Anyone just throw in here your favourite exchange and the fees charged if you want to contribute. Depending on participation, I may compile a current list to look into.

The Gameflip token sale is about to end. It has taken a while but it seems that it will reach a decent ammount of funding and most likely will be a competitor on the gaming arena. Any thoughts?

I have not been able to find any information about ethereum FOG. I hodl a decent ammount of ether on my account, but I do not know how to claim this new fork. I just heard about it on a telegram channel.

The veteran people on crypto tend to say that you should keep your coins in your wallet, never on exchages. However if there is a strong downwards movement on a coin and you want to sell to buy latter at a cheaper price it may take quite a bit of time and fees to move it. What is the right strategy?

Not long ago Easyhash, now Etherdelta,... all atacks that are quite difficult to make without insider information. Do you think that these are really hacks?

Hi, I recently heard about this new fork Does anyone know how to claim it?

I just don´t understand the pitiful navigation, service, cloudflaring errors, unavailability of withdrawals... It has taken me 30 minutes to sell some XRP and withdraw some ETH. What are they trying to achieve???

It seems that they hold plenty of ether and maybe they are Keeping the price low on purpose?