HOW TO SPOT A WINNING ICO

[MarioLuck990]

Winning ICO, at the moment you won't find anything. 1000+ ICOs and nothing that is promised to change lifes or make something really revolutionary, is like people are our of ideas and recycle the same ideas.
I would invest and hold in an ICO which would be revolutionary, with a well planed whitepaper (not another shitpaper with lot of nonsense) , good team communication, a good promotion - marketing (because a team which doesn't care to make its project popular means it doesn't care much) and finally progress , I want to be informed about the progress of the project and see some actual results in a short time.

[Spoetnik]

There never has been a "winning" ICO  

What you meant was "how to spot an ICO scam that will go up high in price in real money cash fiat dollars"

Hell Ethereum is an ICO scam coin that accomplished nothing and THAT is your metric / benchmark for "success"  

Sad & pathetic.
Never mind the "FUD" by the "Troll" though.. go shovel real money at "pre-sale" ICO "startups"  
This is Crypto-Kickstarter and i got mah mouth to feed dammit !!!!!11111ONE

[wordspavovv]

An ICO you can really hold... hold your money and wait  , I think at the moment nothing is promised.
The characteristics of an ICO I would hold and invest will be
1. Good idea, that's mean a good whitepaper also, because is whitepaper is not good, two things means, scam, or bad team.
2. Good team
3. Progress

[Spoetnik]

When you buy a scratch & win lottery ticket there is terms and conditions and odds of winning.
In other words there is an agreement made between you and the provider.

In crypto you are morons buying "coinz" for profit on govt compliant "exchangers"  
You are not "investing" in fuck all nor do you have any agreements.

Since when do "startups" get a blank check from investors with no accountability oversight or agreement ?
..in crypto i guess.  

[bhoybitcoin]

Study the ico first before you join in. Then criticize them by their platforms, strategy and management. If you think that the ico has the potential then you can take part of its success one day.

[akmittal]

It is not to easy to spot a winning ICO. You have to study the project report completely. Study the White paper along with the investor benefits.
now look at the developer team members profile. after all if you find that the project is very good. team is very strong than you can spot a winning ICO.

[johnsm79]

You forgot to check the background of the team. It is one of the important thing that you need to know. Maybe the dev had a history of abandoned projects before. One of the team may take part on a scam before.

As discussed in posts at the beginning of this threat, some team members could just have fake or have changed their background so much, to appear the top of what they do. And because this is a new industry, is just early to tell the good and the bad.

[ss890]

There is only one thing that should be taken care of, and that's ICO developer should not run in between of the projects leaving everything incomplete. They should not leave us scammed and our investments dissolved into their own pockets.


That's all is need to have a winning ICO


The points you listed up there are followed by every dam ICO developer, manager and all the people involved.


But in the later stage they do whatever they always wanted to do. That's spamming the ICO project itself. So it's not about the start really, it's about the end!

[Quietman]

I agree with all points. There is really a big factor when the founders know the project very well and how it will go in the end. The details anf the possible outcome of the project. The team as a whole must have update as well with what's going on or the current situation of the project. I guess, there must be transparency between the team and the investors.

[appleffi]

I 've been trying to find out all the things that would lead me to spot the wining ICO, meaning an ICO that will not just enter a the platforms to make a quick buck.

An ICO I can really HODL.

I have gathered the below up to now:

• The founders are working on something great, with details on their design and their roadmap.
• The founders are not worried with deadlines, but are making changes when necessary to ensure the safety of their project.
• The founders know their project of by heart. They can answer logical questions. They love it when people ask them about their project and the details of the development.
• The founders could be promising the world, but not tomorrow. If they are promising you to become rich tomorrow, something looks bad.

New points from other members:

• Competent development team is the most important rule. Ideas are not enough. There should be good devs to build around those ideas. That is main rule.
• ICO's with a low or reasonable market cap and ICO's that have set a max cap.
• [it could apply sometimes] The winning icos will be having a large of the communities that will always try to monitoring the development process of the project that was including about the crowdsale too.
• Truly wining ICO gets a news coverage on the media.
• The ICO softcap is fulfilled ahead of time.
• If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
• Projects with an existing product, could look more promising, but people could be less likely to invest. It all has to do, at which stage their project is running and where they want to take it.

Looking forward to enhance my list. I will add your ideas to the above list.

In addition to the list, a winning ICO has a goal to make its subscriber be in a composed position and a winning ICO shows transparency. These are important aspects of a good ICO for we know that our own sentiments, worries or troubled mind is also their concern.

[johnsm79]

In addition to the list, a winning ICO has a goal to make its subscriber be in a composed position and a winning ICO shows transparency. These are important aspects of a good ICO for we know that our own sentiments, worries or troubled mind is also their concern.

Will add now, especially about the transparency.

[johnsm79]

I agree with all points. There is really a big factor when the founders know the project very well and how it will go in the end. The details anf the possible outcome of the project. The team as a whole must have update as well with what's going on or the current situation of the project. I guess, there must be transparency between the team and the investors.

Indeed this is important!

[Pasutinmeur]

I agree with all points. There is really a big factor when the founders know the project very well and how it will go in the end. The details anf the possible outcome of the project. The team as a whole must have update as well with what's going on or the current situation of the project. I guess, there must be transparency between the team and the investors.

Not only about the transparency but the developers or the team should made special report about the development progress, The transparency about the fund will be appreciated in my opinion.
Because the investors need to know about what already happened with it.

[telegdyd]

strong command, hardcap size, whitepaper, how many percent of tokens go to the team, discounts on presale, etc.

[Grazyah13]

Actually, it is really hard to spot a winning ICO cause no matter what you do or no matter how many research you make still it depends on the developer’s motive. What we  only know is the developers goal and not their motive so it is really kind of hard to determine.

[vaso11]

The amount of money raised by an ICO in no way directly translates to a corresponding quality of product. Marketing budgets, clever branding, great intro videos…all of these things can help attract attention, bring funds, and inflate perceptions.

Absolutely agree that there are projects that can make a cool project with a small budget, and on the contrary money is huge and the project is bad

[svojoe]

The amount of money raised by an ICO in no way directly translates to a corresponding quality of product. Marketing budgets, clever branding, great intro videos…all of these things can help attract attention, bring funds, and inflate perceptions.

Absolutely agree that there are projects that can make a cool project with a small budget, and on the contrary money is huge and the project is bad

Big money for startup is even harmful than their absence I suppose. Many projects will die because of feeling rich and doing nothing by the team. What is the point to do something if you are already rich?! If you do not have ambitions, of course.

[munareal]

Read thread on ICO as questions are raised and answered will tell if its a scam.Look at the size of its community and activity on social media .This will give you an insight into the project.Look at the token distribution of the team members . If it is high it means that they are a greedy and need to be careful. Also look at the ICO's marketing team.They need to be relevant and in the market for an investor to make profit.

[Casdinyard]

The amount of money raised by an ICO in no way directly translates to a corresponding quality of product. Marketing budgets, clever branding, great intro videos…all of these things can help attract attention, bring funds, and inflate perceptions.

Absolutely agree that there are projects that can make a cool project with a small budget, and on the contrary money is huge and the project is bad

Big money for startup is even harmful than their absence I suppose. Many projects will die because of feeling rich and doing nothing by the team. What is the point to do something if you are already rich?! If you do not have ambitions, of course.

Yeah it's true, some ICO make their project look attractive by having a huge budget.
This is to deceive investors that they have a budget for this and that they can make it to be a successful one.
Well of course, all flowery words will say to investors to build trust to them. Then at the end of ICO they'll tell alibies that these and those happens and the transparency will lost.

[kirito1614]

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