What are ICO's long term success indicators?

[grinono]

My moral compass does not allow me to much speculation. I like the direct investment in startups. But it’s just all getting fuzzy like hell. For some guidance. It would help me to have some indicators for long term success. Are you willing to help out in setting correct indicators and set weight for the params to value a COIN/ICO? I made a start in the following doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ijGkhAUKgCNWiz2zxOwys0bKn9w6FET95NKBmc6k9Rs/edit?usp=sharing any input is appreciated. from this file; maybe i build some software to clear the coin/shitcoin paradigm via a community effort to rank projects on this benchmarkable data.

[coolcountry]

I think we have to distinguish between initial success and long term success. Long term success depends on a lot of variables so it's very difficult to ascertain, but the most important variable is the initial success.

The initial success depends on how professional the ANN thread is and how active the dev team is. Are they putting their names out there? Are they answering questions? Is there an active telegram channel in which you can communicate with the devs? If these are lacking, there is no way an ICO can take off, in my opinion.

[liangweicha]

A reliable team, the speed and quality of code updates determines how long a project's tokens can hold.

[nc50lc]

If the team is transparent to us, you can use their profiles as the basement of your speculation.
Research for their social media, skype or telegram activities.
If the head office is within your vicinity, take a visit, look at their faces.

About the ICO's future projects, most scam attempts are likely those that promises non-real world benefits.
Mostly new Altcoins or a stupidly-distributed Tokens which are already 50%- dumped through airdrops.

You can't always tell if it was a scam or will fail with their activeness in customer support.
But a bad customer support indicates that is a fraud ICO.

[grinono]

So the stage of the project determines the indicators. In early stage it's just TEAM and community/social activity. Lot of early stage project do not have any code written. it's fully based on a promise. Should that be a no go? even though customer support is good..
Then should the more detailed indicators be plotted on exchange listed coins?

[Usui-Chan]

You can always read the information that the people that handle the campaign or ICO. Those campaigns should always give out the sufficient information about their team, coin, etc.. If you find their campaign to be innovative and interesting, then you might found out an ICO that might be successful.

[qazgroup]

I look for good team, clear purpose and the practical side with huge use cases after the product development.

[klub88]

Why you want to go for investing in ICO because as soon as this ICO finish and they hit in exchange the price will go down and you can get in low price then the ICO price. If you want you can also buy some last year coins like, ICN, GNT AND DECENT this are some coins which are having very good potential for long term