How to Choose a Good ICO

[PadenoM]

Before you join a ICO first you need to study and have a look at the project whitepaper, roadmap, ERC20 token approval, project future planing, it's root or platform etc, check the comunity the design and the team
Then you will accept this project ICO or not

[kaspabha]

You need to read the whole white paper, web site.  Look for the concept, project team, community support, marketing strategies and roadmap. Compare them with great successful icos. Then decide, how valuable the coin is. Getting ideas from others is also good. But you should make your own decision.

[lumeire]

They should has working product or minimum MVP (Minimum Viable Product), nice concept and idea. The project consist of professional and solid team. Learn more about review in some ICO review site and other some review from influencer in youtube really help to more understand the aim of the project.

Much better if they've got an actual working product already. EtherDelta's token generation event for example, is good ICO. Still too bad they didn't do the fees-sharing path.

[DanielRR1997]

Here is quick checklist that i go trough always before investing in coin:

1-Transparent team : Images and names of all developers on project, coins developed and released by hidden developers are way more likely to be scam or eventually loosing overall value. This is a fact. Its logical, if someone has ill intent its more likely that staying in shadows will guarantee better safety or perception of it.

2-Long term use: Coin, token, system no matter what the ICO or release is it needs to have long term useful value. Just releasing currency for the sake of it doesnt cut it. Whatever the asset is, it has to provide some real use in order for market to see long term value in it. This means when one sees coin always make sure to think ahead how could such asset provide value to certain people, organizations, companies etc...

[nickolayinvestcapital]

Я peгyляpнo yчacтвyю в ico. бoльшoй oпыт мoгy paccкaзaть

[Crasengover]

I usually check ICOs on icodrops.com. They have very good statistics for the live/upcoing/past ICOs. As well you can check which project has whitelist opened, so it've very convinient to track all ICOs there. It's not an advertisement, I just think that this resource can be really helpful. By the way most of the ICO that they publish are successful.

[jyotianand01]

There are many things to study to choose a good quality ICO. You have to study the white paper, the team behind the project and their experience to implement it and you have to check the ico review sites opinion about the ico.

[blozo]

Good team (even better from an existing firm), adequate hard cap, good product/use case are the most important factors to consider when investing in a ICO

[karasuri]

I personally have the most confidence from those ico who actively communicate and answer questions, give a lot of information and participate in different conferences.

[grever]

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[gustaf.berg]

Before you join a ICO first you need to study and have a look at the project whitepaper, roadmap, ERC20 token approval, project future planing, it's root or platform etc, check the comunity the design and the team
Then you will accept this project ICO or not

You are right. It takes a lot of time and hard work. You need to check team members, their experiences. You need to read whitepaper and other documents and especially roadmap. What is the plan for short term and long term achievements.

[kevinzxz]

how to see if the ICO has a good prospect in the project being made and whether it can survive in the long run, then the pre-sale ico is whether many investors participate, if it then the ICO will be successful (80%).

[Krezz2017]

There are no guarantees against fraudulent actions of the organizers of the IKO. Find a designer for a modest fee and make any site - not difficult. View projects and pull out the team from there, also not a problem. Who will check? Well, run you search for team members on social networks - you will find them, but what will you ask them about participating in this or that project?

[keung0109]

1) Protocol/dapp (especialy those that is solving some problems for NEO/Ethereum network)
2) Hard-cap less then 10-20 millions $.
3) Presale white-list, especially without public sales (whitelist only).
4) Good hype around (many viral in socials, blogs, here in topics like "most promicing ico of december")

I would add:

5) team/advisors
6) partnerships
7) timeline

My recent favorite has been the bee token. Presale sold out in 3 minutes and their overall cap is $15m. Really crazy team from Google, Uber, and Facebook too. https://www.thebeetoken.com/

[beetlejam]

The only thing you can do is research and ask questions.

The first thing I would ask is "do they need an alt coin and what is the purpose?" if they have only created one to hold an ICO, then walk away. Just look into everything about the company, what they are trying to do, their vision and white paper.

[Marco Ambrusini]

you can check reputable sites like coinschedule.com,icorating.com etc

[MISS_nSTASSY]

If you dont know anything about cryptocurrency and only trying to start investing in it - the only right way will be to invest only in projects with escrow. Then, after few ICO you will see good and bad projects

[zilinzhi]

I think the most important thing is the team. Because they will decide the product, and the promotion. If the product is not goosd enough, they won't last long. If the promotion is not strong enough, the price will say low.

[bithuner]

The best thing to do is just to do you own research. Ask questions, ask why they need the alt coin, what are the benefits etc.

You have a whole forum that you can ask the team, you don't normally get that with any type of investments.

[orcuncanli]

why this topic never changes. its requires veery hard work to pick the right ico .project must be good .team has to work hard and advisers should be very known people in their works. these will make ico good and make you profit eventually