What ICO to invest in?

[Merlebrennem]

- Good team behind
- Good whitepaper and concept
- Some working prototype if they have
- Active communication via slack or telegram, they should be able to answer every doubt investor will have.
- ICO with low hard cap and short time.
- ICO without any pre-ICO

Why pre-ICO is bad ?

[cr_liev]

Watch reviews, look at the team (country), ask the questions through the communication channels, see how active the company is (e.g. if it takes part in sponsorships or not).
In the long perspective assess the tempo of the token sale and reaching of capitalization

[Franko30]

What are some characteristics of a good ICO?

There are many characteristic of good ICO. But to check almost all of them you need to spend a lot of time and have patience. The most important thing is to be sure that ICO is not scam. To be honest you never can e sure in 100%, because sometimes ppl spend millions dollars to achieve more. And their ico looks good enough to investors.
1. Looks at the team, each members play role. Discover their background, education, professional skills. Members should have prefect reputations.
2. White paper - the main document of ICO. There you should find all details about development and implementing stage of project, description of idea and all ways to use product, amount of money step by step.
3. Web-site, social support in all resources that you can find.
4. Good but not necessary to have a demo version of your product.
5. Bounty campaign and promo activities should take not more than 10% of all tokens, in my own opinion
6. Road map with understandable and real stages.

Due to this reasons i choose Confideal. There ICO will start in 2 days. Please take a look - https://confideal.io/

[Jenna_G]

There are many characteristic of good ICO. But to check almost all of them you need to spend a lot of time and have patience. The most important thing is to be sure that ICO is not scam. To be honest you never can e sure in 100%, because sometimes ppl spend millions dollars to achieve more. And their ico looks good enough to investors.
1. Looks at the team, each members play role. Discover their background, education, professional skills. Members should have prefect reputations.
2. White paper - the main document of ICO. There you should find all details about development and implementing stage of project, description of idea and all ways to use product, amount of money step by step.
3. Web-site, social support in all resources that you can find.
4. Good but not necessary to have a demo version of your product.
5. Bounty campaign and promo activities should take not more than 10% of all tokens, in my own opinion
6. Road map with understandable and real stages.

Due to this reasons i choose Confideal. There ICO will start in 2 days. Please take a look - https://confideal.io/

So reasonable,
Take a look to this article - https://medium.com/@confideal/why-will-confideal-ico-be-successful-ad293f09d7e1
It was my last reason to choose this ICO, and I very exited before its start

[sealofsun]

Worldcore and Guts
Both are good projects and investors
You should definitely think

[misa999]

Pally app mate , beta version already in use, David Drake in advisory team.

Join now and get 25% bonus!


https://pally.co

[saymynem]

1) good use of blockchain tech as a solution to a problem previously unsolvable without blockchain
2) good use of tokens after ICO. otherwise, why even issue tokens...
3) good white paper. not BS copied and pasted from sources they don't appear to understand. includes understanding of their market and how they will achieve they technical goals
4) tangible demo. if they can't show you anything, it's an awful big leap of faith
5) any kind of 3rd party recognition is nice. news articles, "best of" lists, even legal representation (law firms won't counsel companies they expect to fail as it looks bad for them) especially in countries where the law poses a major problem- essentially a backing law firm says "we think these guys don't have fatal legal problems"
6) where are they from? I like the US since that is where most major tech companies are from, I wouldn't suddenly expect that to change just because of the blockchain. I hate to profile, but the sketchier the country their based in, the less I feel I can trust them.

[Risotto]

Guts, I will always support an ICO.
I'm on a signature campaign this ICO's.
And being a part of it makes me proud.

[hua_hui]

- Good team behind
- Good whitepaper and concept
- Some working prototype if they have
- Active communication via slack or telegram, they should be able to answer every doubt investor will have.
- ICO with low hard cap and short time.
- ICO without any pre-ICO

Why pre-ICO is bad ?

I think the key thing about pre-ICO is the discount. Some of the ICO can give very huge discount for pre-ICO or private sale. This can cause the later investors to suffer. One popular example is give 250% bonus, so for the same price, the earlier investors can get like 3x more tokens so even if they sell at half the price, they still profit.

[TonyFat]

thank you, very interesting

[Warkop]

It's really difficult today to find some interesting and promising ICO for investment. There are so many "empty" projects, which have only idea. But some are real and can bring a good profit. I prefer to invest in projects, which have some the finished products or the development.

Well, that way you should be careful choosing ICO to invest, if you want to invest with ICO you should look into the site, then check all project team profiles, if all teams use linkedin and in their profile there is a picture of their project. , I am sure they are very serious about making the project.

[wissy]

Lately is better to wait for coins to go on exchange and then buy it since they loose value fast after ICO, but to be honest it looks like crypto economy is healing and we could see ICOs with huge investments and profits again.

[bitofc]

Qchain.co
They released a working demo app before ICO. 
https://medium.com/the-qchain-blog/bighorn-alpha-release-qchains-advertising-app-demo-is-here-29675ee43591
demo.qchain.co
Username: demouser
Password: demopassword

Low cap, big upside with serious/hardworking team, but I think they are a bit lacking in marketing as of now.

The details of the crowdsale
https://medium.com/the-qchain-blog/the-qchain-token-sale-begins-now-e08259c98101

Telegram: @ https://t.me/qchainplatform
Twitter: https://twitter.com/QchainPlatform
Reddit: https://qchain.reddit.com
Medium: https://medium.com/the-qchain-blog
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QchainPlatform/
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2264106
Bitcointalk Bounty: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2229065.0

English whitepaper: https://qchain.co/files/Qchain_whitepaper.pdf

[MirandaGreen12]

https://artoken.io
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2135473.0

it suitable w 3D/ AR/ VR. It's our future

[digital_weezer]

Really liking the look of Crowdholding.

Solid white paper, great strong team, actually have a product behind them (99% of ICO's don't) and constantly improving in everything (from marketing, to events etc), all their numbers add up, strong social media, great concept and marketing and content creation.

They launch tomorrow, these guys will fly!

https://ico.crowdholding.com

[nofuture]

Well, after doing some researchs, I would like to list some factors of a good ICO project.
1. Vision/Innovation of the project to solve economic problems.
2. Why they need base on blockchain technology?
3. Experience of Founders and team.
4. Competitive projects.

[misa999]

PALLY APP is the ICO I contributed recently

Why? ok let me explain

 - Pally has been building a platform for Decentralised Social Travelling, there is no such a competiror in the cryptoworld. Sure! There is a competitor  - Airbnb. Airbnb has 20% commission as a "thank you" that you offer your adventures and experiences in their platform. That means that AIRBNB WILL TAKE 200USD FOR EVERY 1000USD YOU EARN ON THEIR PLATFORM. What more, Airbnb is centralised and mostly focused on Accomodation than providing experiences.

- Pally has NO COMMISSION! That means that if you want to earn 1000 PALS (or 100usd does not matter here) per each activity you provide, YOU WILL GET IT. NO FEES!
- Pally is fully decentralised p2p platform.

Main differencies between AIRBNB X PALLY!

- More affordable activities aimed at a younger demographic than those that can afford the average airbnb experience (Incentive for people on the buy side)
- No commission charged to local hosts (incentive for people on the sell side)
- More sophisticated dispute resolution

Why should you contribute during the ICO?
- there is now 25% BONUS
- LOW hard cap of 4 550 000 usd
- already working beta version (iOS x web browser)
- over 25 000 downloads on iOS
- since there is over 6billion tourists every year, the usage of the platform is something nobody can deny!

Take a look at https://pally.co and make your own decision I love the project, I love the concept and I am sure you will, too !

https://pally.co
https://t.me/icopally

[PranDoW]

- Good team behind
- Good whitepaper and concept
- Some working prototype if they have
- Active communication via slack or telegram, they should be able to answer every doubt investor will have.
- ICO with low hard cap and short time.
- ICO without any pre-ICO

Why pre-ICO is bad ?

I think the key thing about pre-ICO is the discount. Some of the ICO can give very huge discount for pre-ICO or private sale. This can cause the later investors to suffer. One popular example is give 250% bonus, so for the same price, the earlier investors can get like 3x more tokens so even if they sell at half the price, they still profit.

Agree with you but before that you anyway need to check the project details, then you can try to invest. But if you not sure about project then avoid investment because even with good bonuses you can lose your money.

In my opinion Spectre is a good project for investment
See details: https://spectre.ai/

[Mr_McKska]

- Good team behind
- Good whitepaper and concept
- Some working prototype if they have
- Active communication via slack or telegram, they should be able to answer every doubt investor will have.
- ICO with low hard cap and short time.
- ICO without any pre-ICO

Why pre-ICO is bad ?

I think the key thing about pre-ICO is the discount. Some of the ICO can give very huge discount for pre-ICO or private sale. This can cause the later investors to suffer. One popular example is give 250% bonus, so for the same price, the earlier investors can get like 3x more tokens so even if they sell at half the price, they still profit.

There are projects in which tokens sold during pre-sale have a lock period and can't be sold by investors right after ICO. It seems to me that this approach is much more honest and I have more trust to such projects. Otherwise the chance of selling tokens by early investors at a price lower than ICO is high. This can lead to panis sell and as a result collapse of price.

[realKittenCoin]

Easy, just ask them if they love kittens!
Meow