56% of ICOs fail and it's OK

[The Goat Master]

As you said most of the startups fail. That's how the investors get good return form the successful projects with takind risks.
And that's how we're learning project by project.

[El Loco]

I agree with you, but I would like to point out some things.

The reason of the last year ICO hype and amazing gains it's called Ethereum.

From January to April 2017 Ethereum floated from 10$ to 40$. Now imagine an investor depositing 100 eth in some ICO worth 1000$. You have already understood the point, right? Let's suppose the token invested in went live in exchanges in November when eth was 450$, just for the change in the contribution value you made a x45 gain.

Not to mention the ICOs that have cashed a lot of eth when it was worth 10$-20$ 

[richaerich]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

yes, this is quite true, a lot of ICOs are failure or scam, that's why before we join an ICO we should do a research first, check the website,whitepaper,the developer,and the project itself.

[Lonsdayl]

And every day the number of scam projects is growing. Investors must analyze all, starting from team profiles and white paper, ending with real company registrations according to the laws.

[retrend]

And every day the number of scam projects is growing. Investors must analyze all, starting from team profiles and white paper, ending with real company registrations according to the laws.

Scammers understand that they have little time left to do this with impunity.

[rodel caling]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

truly your right, i think failing of ico's is connecting to the bitcoin price fall down because the tokens or coins are affected during bitcoin  price is dump in the market, reseach before to invest is normal to the investor's to learn the legalities of the project, i think just for now the problem or the trouble are gonna fix it later. still hold and your investment do not panic.

[metalglowd]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

In the future i think the Fake ICO will still growing up, and thats mean that we need to take carefully when choose an ICO. Because we want to make profit in there, not just get losing our money.

More research, more filtering is very important tp avoid of scammer

[david0ikari]

I agree but not entirely. As long the project is not alive, the price will fluctuate or the project fail. So make sure when you are investing to not take too much risk.

[xuan87]

Yeah I believe that is okay, we got too much ICO that come out every day and some ICO without good marketing team and good features will failed, and yes before you invest in ICO, reading whitepaper is the most essential part, and if you want to make profit with ICO then you need to be patience because almost all of ICO coin got a rough start and the coin will slowly increasing

[Nagricoin]

Yeah, that's really true. I agree with you. I think it is best to invest in 7-9 ico, because thus risks become even less.

Yeah, you have to do it.
Even when people buy the share in oil companies - they always buy from the several companies.
Because no one knows what will happen after few month.

[cellard]

Just look at the icostats.com website and you'll see how ICO's are doing:

https://icostats.com/vs-btc

A lot of coins have very weak volume, so these stats can be misleading. Needless to say, some people got very rich from some of the ICO's, which is what keeps the ICO game alive... people dream with these ROI's coming back with the next ICO that will make their BTC x1000... the scams will continue to happen since it only takes 1 successful ICO to get a bunch of delusional people on board buying anything under the mill.

[shandi albert]

3. Ignore news and HODL

Because basically all the business and everyday activities that we do each there is the risk. I strongly agree with the 3rd point, If you have participated in the ICO do not listen to FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) that are in circulation.

[Xising]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

I agree. For most parts, that's also how I see the ICO market. As an ICO joiner myself, through joining different campaigns, I feel how hard it is to choose those projects that has more fighting chance compared to other ones that are somewhat destined to fail. Since so many projects are coming out seemingly everyday, you really need to study where you would join because that would mean that you have to give your commitment to it for months at a time before you can see the light at the end of the title, which is usually dim at best. So, you really need to study where you put your money and time so that it won't be a waste.

[Nakaba]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

It is not okay because the money that they use are came from investors compared to the start up in a business where they spent their own money. ICO start up that became scam left the investor and run with their money while the start up that you talking about was failed because of bankruptcy or due to  not enough budget or money.

[mu_enrico]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

56% is kinda high though, at the end ICOs are the same as startups and they will share same risks

I can say 90% of ICO also will fail it's just a matter of time frame

[BitcoinCazh]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

i agree with your opinoin, when a half ICOs fail, and very difficult to find good ico we must know about team, idea project, whitepapers, road map, and popularity, and im not agree when we must ignore news, that is critical, information we must update information to know every opportunities

[udayantha11]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

use the ICODROPS website to search a good ico. i highly recommended the icodrop. i have invested credits, wabi, sential according to their recommendation.

now a days do not invest any ico's even the grestest ico's give 1x potential because of the market condition. please wait for like end of april

[Bttzed03]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

44% ICO success rate is good in my opinion. I agree 100% with rule 1 and 2. You cannot really ignore news, it is still important to get updates from time to time.

[Astrilian]

Yeah I believe that is okay, we got too much ICO that come out every day and some ICO without good marketing team and good features will failed, and yes before you invest in ICO, reading whitepaper is the most essential part, and if you want to make profit with ICO then you need to be patience because almost all of ICO coin got a rough start and the coin will slowly increasing

I agree with you regarding the "rough start" for almost any ICO, especially in the current market conditions. Even if the ICO has been hyped it is likely to tank just right outside the gate. Especially in these cases when so called "investors" who are just in for a quick flip and sell everything they got in order to secure a return on investment.

If you really believe in a project it might be a better option to wait for the rebound.

[nguyenhongsen]

According to recent recearch, 56% of 2017 ICOs fail. And you know what? That's OK. 90% of startups fail but the rest grow so high that they compensate venture investors 90% loss and provide very high profits.

So the basic rules with ICOs are very simple:
1. Do the research before you invest
2. Diversify, diversify, diversify
3. Ignore news and HODL

I think the 2018 year that will be a year of ICO. There are many potential ICO and also have garbage ICO everyday. It can make ETH's price raise but when a ICO project fail, it can be affect with ETH's price when they sell all ETH of investors