The ICO atlas

[paxmao]

I am exploring the ICO market from a middle to long term investor perspective. This implies that I am examining a few ICOs every week not as much with the idea of making a quick Euro, but rather to hold my position for a couple of years.

INVESTORS 101

If you have attended any Entrepreneurship course, MBA or even a foUr hour chat with someone knowledgeable you can skip a few paragraphs, if not  you need to know that middle to long term success is usually related to the following factors:

1 – The idea. Contrary to Noobs intuition, there are millions of good ideas. A good idea is only 10% of what a project need for success. Also, contrary to intuition, rather than keeping an idea secret for no particular reason, sometimes is much better to mature it with other people.
2 – The team. Even a mediocre idea can produce good results if the right people are behind it. The right team is 30% of the success. This is particularly true if one or more members have already achieved success on previous endeavours.
3 – The partnerships.  This can be 20 to 50% of a successful project. Partners can be investors, suppliers, clients, advisors,…
4 – Planning and execution. A correct execution is easily 30 to 40 % of a successful startup.
5 - The funding. Oh… so many ships did not reach the promised land because they run out of fuel just when they were almost there.
Well, it seem that when people hear “ICO” forget about all this and, instead, believe that if it is a token it can´t go wrong. But, just as the path to summit of mount Chomolungma (AKA Everest) is full of dead bodies,  Ethereum´s blockchain is going to be full of ERC20 compliant corpses.

TO THE POINT
This is the first page of this ICO Atlas and deal with THE IDEA (AKA Value Proposition, sometimes AKA Business Model).  Unless you have been on a 3 year trip to the most remote region of the Amazonian jungle, it is likely that you can help me with this.

Clasification by type:

A)   Pure criptocurrency
A.1 – With a fast network
A.2 – With cheap transaction fees
A.3 – Very secure
A.4 – With additional programmable characteristics (i.e. Solidity or others).
4.5 – With anonymous transactions
B)   Tokenization of physical assets
a.   Real state
b.   Gold, diamonds,..
c.   Energy or utilities
d.   Other
C)   Tokenization of digital assets
a.   Music
b.   Files
c.   Other
D)   Tokenization of services.
a.   Software that offer services
E)   APIs and software
E.1 Token services / ICO subscription services.
E.2 Programming APIs or graphical interfaces
F)   Tokenization of investment in a Startup
F.1 – Unrelated to blockchain tech other than the tokens. Uses the traction of ICOs for a purpose unrelated to the distributed ledger ecosystems.
F.2 – Related to blockchain technology

Shall we grow and improve this classification? Which of these have the better chance of success? (and why, if you will)

[Razick]

You will need to provide a lot more info if you want anyone to take you seriously.

Furthermore, everyone knows ICOs/altcoins and crypto in general is ina  huge bubble and bound to burst within a month or so. At this point there will be a huge decline in crypto usage and interest for at least a year, but possible upwards of 3 years. I think such a project is doomed to fail for this reason.

Finally, it is well known that most altcoins are pump and dumps anyways. So it isn't like we need to study them or whatever, because it is almost impossible to tell which ones are legit anyways.