What we need to check before investing in ico?

[cryptomema]

Hello everybody,

I know mostly people here know what they need to do before investing in any ico but there are still many people ask the same question in different thread specially newbie. They get the answer but in several post which maybe make them a little confusing.

I am not an expert but i could put what i know here. All i know is from reading here in the forum.

Well just start, everything you need to research and make sure before investing in ico project wheater the ico has :

* working product
* Unique or good idea/solution for existing problem or future problem.
* Strong team behind the project
* Strong planning and marketing ability
* Partnerships with reputed company
* good whitepaper and roadmap too
* experience advisor

Edited :
* make sure the idea is different with the exist ico or the old project
* check the supply of the token because it cause the price run

From all mention above, i have 1 thing that is most important in my opinion. That is  ico should have working product because working product can lead the ico would be success ( not 100% success but mostly success ).
Maybe this thread will help you to find working product ico : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2451482.0


After you do research about above things, you can check the rating and other detail in below website :

* Icobench.com
* Icorating.com
* Icobazaar.com
* Icoscanner.io

Other source to check popularity of the project is youtube and also this forum.


I know its not complete but i hope it can help member who need it.

Note : your suggestion is appreciate to add the detail above.

Thank you

You have listed most important things that we need to check before investing in an ICO,well if an ICO has passed from this standard im sure it will be big,but not all the time you will see campaigns like this.Because most of the ICOs today are created just to raise funds and will eventually abandon the investors,you should check the community's feedback to the progect so it will serve as another confirmation before you invest.

[Dmitry_K]

I think everyone knows that before investing in any ICO you need to study everything as much as possible. No one wants to risk their money. In this case, the risks are of course reduced, but not completely disappear.

[patrickj]

I think everyone knows that before investing in any ICO you need to study everything as much as possible. No one wants to risk their money. In this case, the risks are of course reduced, but not completely disappear.

Definitely, risk always remains risk. Any ICO or investment is a kind of risk but if you don't take a risk nothing will happen until it happens. To lessen that, studying projects flow, and the team behind it is a good start before investing. Make yourself more knowledgeable, we invest because we want to gain profit from it but we also need to know what will be the used of it at the first place. Doing it will encourage you if you take the risk and support it until the end.

[Lecam]

I always check the credibility of the team, the road map, if there's a working product or the purpose of the ICO, the marketing strategy of the team, and a lot more. Actually, there's a lot to consider before investing because not all ICOs or even good ICOs don't get successful if one lacks on marketing, or further development.

[Dany44]

I think bitcointalk helps to collect all necessary things about any ICO project

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[summonerrk]

completely agree with all the listed items and I think that first of all we should look at the team then who it was they were engaged before that are they good developers because in the end we trust our money to them

[Man21]

I think everyone knows that before investing in any ICO you need to study everything as much as possible. No one wants to risk their money. In this case, the risks are of course reduced, but not completely disappear.

We dont need to be disappear because nothing is free of risk in the world.
We can not delete the risk for the whole thing but at least we have the option, thats reducing the risk.

[sucix]

What I check forst is the quality of the team, the idea and the amount the project is value when all the tokens are dilluted, and the hard cap they are looking for, there are good projects with good team but the hardcap is too high for me

How much hard cap is suitable for the ico to develope their project?
It migh be good to know if the project want too high hard cap and it might be turn into scam ico. Too much hardcap is like funding for founder and developer but not for project.
However, good thread for me amd other to know what we should do.

[fargoway]

As for me the focus should be made on the extent of all informative details disclosure in the whitepaper. There should be minimum of common data and more fundamental/technical information.
Secondly, the important role plays reliability of escrow, who will be keeping all assets during the roadmap plans implementation.
Finally, I would pay attention on the use of tokens, benefits of their keeping.

[efeyigit399]

this is a difficult question actually. There is a lot of alterative in the crypto money market. it is necessary to pay attention to the internet pages and ico consultants when choosing the most appropriate one among them.

[enawati]

Maybe i can add one more thing, their community should be big to support this project and we can know it from their official social media like Facebook and telegram official group. I have seen many project that has many member until  athousand in their telegram finally successfully reached hardcap.

[xderek]

I would also add, look for what big investors look for. They usually look for familiar names of big players, o past experience of the team. They call this Ace team. Not only, look if the thing has an use, and is not just plain water. But of course, you can place the ico high on speculation ladder.

[VenturaBro]

In short: as much as you can.

Past projects, the people themselves (linkedin, etc), their history, and more.

[orka39]

I think everyone knows that before investing in any ICO you need to study everything as much as possible. No one wants to risk their money. In this case, the risks are of course reduced, but not completely disappear.

We dont need to be disappear because nothing is free of risk in the world.
We can not delete the risk for the whole thing but at least we have the option, thats reducing the risk.

Thats why this thread being created, the purpose is to reduce the risk and not to delete it becuase it can not be deleted.
I know this thread is far from perfect but at least i want to help with my low ability.

[Bryan13]

Well before investing in any ico project you need to check the project goal, roadmap and people behind in this project. Dont invest to any promissing project because in the end it will turn to scam its better to choose a project that has a real intention or have a real product.

[JohnMacZeppelin]

In fact, if there is such an opportunity, it would be good to check the legal address of the project well and it would also be very good to check whether the developers listed on the site are really working in this project. Well, that's all I think.

[CryptoC7]

Before investing, I always look at the team and try to find some kind of information about what all these developers have already done and if their profile on linkedIn was created a couple of days ago. And because I'm already going to their site and see what the attendance of their site is for the day. If the attendance is really big and everything is done as it should, then I go to read the white paper and estimate the project

Great advice!!

[webmone]

Before investing in the ICO I look at the idea and the availability of the team's experience in this area. If the team is strong, but the idea has no prospects, then I will not invest.

[Dhruvv1]

Need to add ICOdrop (https://icodrops.com/) for rating purpose. ICOdrop just adds the most significant projects. Also, the investor needs to check the hype of the project in the market. Many times good project does not get even soft cap due to the low hype. In my opinion, you should add Hype Factor also in your list.  

[hurry_hore]

Hello everybody,

I know mostly people here know what they need to do before investing in any ico but there are still many people ask the same question in different thread specially newbie. They get the answer but in several post which maybe make them a little confusing.

I am not an expert but i could put what i know here. All i know is from reading here in the forum.

Well just start, everything you need to research and make sure before investing in ico project wheater the ico has :

* working product
* Unique or good idea/solution for existing problem or future problem.
* Strong team behind the project
* Strong planning and marketing ability
* Partnerships with reputed company
* good whitepaper and roadmap too
* experience advisor

Edited :
* make sure the idea is different with the exist ico or the old project
* check the supply of the token because it cause the price run

From all mention above, i have 1 thing that is most important in my opinion. That is  ico should have working product because working product can lead the ico would be success ( not 100% success but mostly success ).
Maybe this thread will help you to find working product ico : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2451482.0


After you do research about above things, you can check the rating and other detail in below website :

* Icobench.com
* Icorating.com
* Icobazaar.com
* Icoscanner.io

Other source to check popularity of the project is youtube and also this forum.


I know its not complete but i hope it can help member who need it.

Note : your suggestion is appreciate to add the detail above.

Thank you

It is a good sharing for the member here, almost all criteria has been elaborated. I just want to add perhaps this one can be added, just my opinion that not only reputed company but also influence of big name who support the project. Let's say that some ICO are said to be supported by McAfee, it will increase the trust of investors.