It is not a right strategy to invest all your money in one altcoin. Yeap Ethereum is stable and its value is slowly growing but you'd better split your money on two or more parts and invest in different altcoins.

I'd choose Bitcoin. It is the most stable and fast growing crypto currency.

Do not regret about what is cannot be changed, but start right now in order not to say it again in the future. The price of crypto currencies grows very fast and yeap now you should spent more money, but investing will be profitable in the course of time. If nowadays price of Bitcoin seems too high, imagine what it will be a couple years later? So welcome to the party  

If people have a definite answer they do not loose their money.
One decide by himself what points make him sure that this ICO is good.
Working product, team members, White Paper are thing you should pay attention at the very beginning.

Everything where there are kittens is bounded to be successful People just love kittens

The combination of these 4. But the product plays the biggest role, because it means that company does not go to ICO empty-handed and has smth to invest funds in. I'd say it is some kind of guarantee. Project team is also important. The project is going to be likely successful and free from risk if it is supported by influental persons.

Updated the price.Today's value of Bitcoin is already $11440.3 and it is continue growing.

Thanks for sharing useful information. I think that these points are the most important to pay an attention for.

Join the recommendations of the majority of previous commentators. It is a risky venture and you must be ready to loose everything. If  you do not have money now, what will you do (hope not) in case of loosing the loan? Take your time and earn own money and then invest.

Thanks for a suggestion. Very interesting project

Track their social networks, responses to people, activity. Write to community managers and ask questions about future of the project, profit from your invests and so on. If the answers are vague and too complicated or unprofessional it should put you on alert. However sometimes even scam could so perfectly planned and organized that it is unable to identify it.

Investing in ICO may bring you not only a lot of money but take everything irreparably as well. It depends on what ICO you will choose to invest, coz there is lot of scam. Extensive research on the project before investing will definetly help you to assure that you will have a profit.

'Altcoin' stands for 'alternative coin'. It could be any of cryptocurrency but Bitcoin which was initially created. Many of them are very similar, changing only a couple of characteristics such as speed of transaction in the network or coin assignment. However some of altcoins are created using unique innovations.

Companies conduct ICO in order to attract investments to their project. During this ICO they introduce a fixed number of new units of crypto-currencies that are bought by investors at a reduced price

Yes, you definately should check some at least superficial information about the company. But usually the majority of people just want easy money and don't bother about these things. Read White Paper, look through the social networks and people comments.

Trolling, can't but agree the website is well done. Actually there are a lot of things like this. For example banana coin https://bananacoin.io/
Minions' tries

It depends on what the campaign offers but in general it is important to ask if it already has a working product, how the are going to earn on it. You also need to check the team members coz it is the base of the project. When the project is supported by big affluent companies you have more guarantees that it is not a scam. Usually White Paper covers all necessary information, so take time to scrutinize WP and ask questions if smth unclear.

ICO is always about risk because there is no guarantees. However in order to somehow secure your funds it is necessary to deepen in the available information. Read WP (about the sponsors, forecasts and market data), comments of other people, surf its social networks, explore pre-ICO history. Do not forget about questions that you can ask Community Mangers of the campaign.

Invest in Ethereum. Blockchain technology, smart-contracts proved themselves to be good.