Reasons why ICOs fail

[samward]

a lot of people today r want to compare to the previous years, they careless not doing research etc. People r more vigillant and alert with these ICOs especially our community is aware with these lots of scams, one redflag is enough reason not to invest that is why most of these scam ICOs r failing...

[vanmoreno]

a lots of ICO dont have real project, just make some coin and make agreement with exchanger..

[steveabrahams]

most ICO fails because of the poor project, means that it has no long term projects, many investors look for good ICO and has a good platform that has a long term effect on the market. thats why the lack of  support in the community most ICo fails.

That is one of the reason why an ICO fail, people already smart nowdays and they will not invest their coins into stupid and not serious project ICO. Investor always see the project and the teams behind the project before they invest and i think some ICOs fail is because from the project itself not from the investor.

[kimjenglot]

most ICO fails because of the poor project, means that it has no long term projects, many investors look for good ICO and has a good platform that has a long term effect on the market. thats why the lack of  support in the community most ICo fails.

that is also the reason, it could happen like that. may also that's also the reason, it could happen like that. may also the developers fail to provide innovation on the ICO, or a weak marketing department in the promotion process

[Altcoindealer]

They are some reasons why the most ico fails. But the first of all of them is, that the most ICO are just created to earn easy money from the bitcoin and cryptocurrency hype. SO there are no projects behind, they just interested to collect money. The other reason is, that they are to many ico who are doing the same stuff. SO why we need 10 projects who want to make you mine tokens while you workout in the gym? ANd another reason is, that the most projects are to futuristic, and nobody will ever use it. As exemple i can just bring again this project with the gym. DO you really think any gym on this world will accept those tokens as payment method?

[Regar]

There are many ICOs out there, but more than 50% of them fail.
From my analogy, could this be the reasons why ICOs fail?
1. Being too complicated:
If you want investors to favour your ICO, make sure they understand your coin offering. Be concise yet interesting, creative yet not too ‘techy’ and try to explain concepts from scratch. Of course, the detail you go into is likely to depend on your target audience.
2. No unique Use case and lack of creativity:
The reality is, ICOs are not straightforward and with new ideas and concepts arising daily, you need to get noticed and that means coming up with some unique Use case
So, before a developer even attempts to launch an ICO or enter the crypto world, ask yourself: "What will make investors choose this particular ICO over a competitor’s ICO?"
I believe the list continues.

on my opinion, some ICO are good and some are not good, based on what and how they handle the project. i think it is how the team of those project "work" on the project not only what purposes of their project, so i think failed ICO is because they are surrender when they work on the project, and can't handle it anymore.

[cheezcarls]

I would like to point out an ICO that definitely failed in their project. One of them is Gilgamesh. Although I like their project concept for book lovers and have some creativity, I think they have lack of marketing and exposure (especially that Facebook, Google and Twitter have laid the axe on paid advertising), same thing with the other ICOs who have failed before. No disrespect. Just sayin’.

[LeoEspansq]

Lack of funding to continue the implementation of ideas or that more often the lack of a finished product or even a prototype, which can even partially assess this project. And then the decline in demand and, accordingly, the relevance of life.

[ngacengan]

There are many ICOs out there, but more than 50% of them fail.
From my analogy, could this be the reasons why ICOs fail?
1. Being too complicated:
If you want investors to favour your ICO, make sure they understand your coin offering. Be concise yet interesting, creative yet not too ‘techy’ and try to explain concepts from scratch. Of course, the detail you go into is likely to depend on your target audience.
2. No unique Use case and lack of creativity:
The reality is, ICOs are not straightforward and with new ideas and concepts arising daily, you need to get noticed and that means coming up with some unique Use case
So, before a developer even attempts to launch an ICO or enter the crypto world, ask yourself: "What will make investors choose this particular ICO over a competitor’s ICO?"
I believe the list continues.

actually there are many reasons why ICO there is a failure in sales because the program is developed is not too clear or useful in the future and the team is also not too convincing.

[ciplut]

many ICO projects that fail, can be because the products offered are not clear, the flow of shares that are not clear (medium), the way of promotion that is less interesting and complicated

[7Dyoknga5]

There are many ICOs out there, but more than 50% of them fail.
From my analogy, could this be the reasons why ICOs fail?
1. Being too complicated:
If you want investors to favour your ICO, make sure they understand your coin offering. Be concise yet interesting, creative yet not too ‘techy’ and try to explain concepts from scratch. Of course, the detail you go into is likely to depend on your target audience.
2. No unique Use case and lack of creativity:
The reality is, ICOs are not straightforward and with new ideas and concepts arising daily, you need to get noticed and that means coming up with some unique Use case
So, before a developer even attempts to launch an ICO or enter the crypto world, ask yourself: "What will make investors choose this particular ICO over a competitor’s ICO?"
I believe the list continues.

Good point. Like products in the market they fight for consumer consumption tru advertisement which in altcoins' case is not applicable. Ads agency hire celebrities to endorse their products that altcoin could never do because cryptocurrencies are not yet accepted in most countries.

The best way I think to attract investors is continuous development of the projects and good customer service by the dev team.

[DarkTaiga]

Because it's too bad, no clear direction, "scam" and it's "normal". Many ICO doesn't have breakthrough. And I think it fail because of its popularity. There are a lot of ICO and no one works effectively.

[Kryten12]

Most ICO will fail becasue either the team is too inexperienced and has not promoted the project properly or made sure that the amounts to be raised are favourable to the current market.

[ardyology]

ICOs fail simply because they don't have a solid structure for their business model and concept. For a startup to truly plunge into the market especially for a platform under the blockchain technology, usability has a lot of weight in order for a project to take off. While most of them are complicated, I believe they lack of simple information that'll show the bigger picture of the project. And an ICO should have a strategic edge over other ICOs that offer same line of solution. Of course, digital marketing plays a big role on promoting ICOs.

[dpui98]

I really hope people will learn & research before investing in ICO. There are many that are clearly scam but people still invest in it... I for one will avoid ICO which promise X amount of return over a period of time... if Bank cant gives you the return how would those projects will?

[Bilipus]

There are a lot of factor, as fo me ICO fail because of there lack of consistency to the roadmap and in ability to determine the accurate  amount of fund, required for implementation of project also the team should be legit,real people and using their own identity,the product/services should be working already the vision should be also great,whitepaper should be written very well ,roadma should be cleared too advisors should be professional too so that the ICO wont have any redflags.

[lolek_bolek]

In the past month I have heard of about 5 different companies (I work at 2 of those) that want to start an ICO without any original idea just because of all the hype around cryptocurrencies... This is in my opinion the biggest reason why most ICO have and eventually will fail, because they try to force blockchain products where there is no need for a blockchain...

[uchiikina14]

Some of the ICOs fail maybe because of some reasons

1. Maybe because of their team.
2. Their ICO is scam
3. They don't advertise their ICO properly
4. Their are only a few who invest in their ICO

This are the only reason that I think the ICOs fail.

[bayu7adi]

Because most of the ICO project is more like a hype, they didn't have any meaning, from their white paper can determine that they are unlikely to succeed, so I think now is not a good time to an investment ICO.

+1
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[Kim Ji Won]

You can add this to your OP:
In my experience, one more reason I can share with why most ICO fail is the lack of communication to the community. Some ICO that I've participated in is only active in communicating at the start of the campaign then after a while or after the ICO finishes, they are slowly being inactive. What they don't know is that it creates doubts to the community leading to FUDs being spread.