Reasons why ICOs fail

[Akmal9603]

it could be because the attractiveness of investors is currently declining, maybe this has an effect from the current unstable BTC and ETH prices.

[Natalim]

it could be because the attractiveness of investors is currently declining, maybe this has an effect from the current unstable BTC and ETH prices.

Majority of the investors can easily be shaken, they will leave the market because they think bitcoin will crash and crypto as a whole will not survive.
But, those who carefully study the trends and the price history will become aggressive in investing as they understand at bear market the price will dump.

[killat]

Problem with ICOs is that they entered into a vicious cyrcle and it's very hard to get out of it. Most of ICOs are or become scam sooner or later.

However, there are also legit ICOs, but their credibility is much affected by the image created by the scam ICOs. This makes the soft/hard cap very difficult to reach even for very good ICOs. As an alternative I would recommend investments in non-ICO projects. (see one good example in my signature)

[pogicute1234]

For me the main reason of it was because the number of investors are lessen, due to scammers that can easily enter the ICO.

[Boyong02]

As of today most of the ICO fails because of the market situation and of course because of bad marketing team, lack of hype and incompetent leadership..

[Aroma92]

The main reason for distrust of ICO is that some projects, having collected the necessary amount, disappear. BUT the most important reason is that now the bear market, and when the coin is released on the exchange its value is less than on the ICO, people do not want to lose their money.

[Miklight88]

One if the reason most ICOs failed is the founder itself, the mind set of the founder is key to drive any project , once the mind set is I will be rich in a short time, then their is not that project can do that will make it succeed, even if it has good project, but if the aim is to really provide for people's need and drive the world economy then it will definitely survive,
Many jump in to ico cause of the money and once they see the money they forget the investors, even now both good project that has product and those without all setting $20mln above as hard cap ,you can't see an ico that say $5mln is the hard cap even when they have nothing to do and after the ICOs they did nothing and the funds are spent personally .
Some in token allocation you will see reserve for project development and again in the how the ico funds going to be soend you still see like 50% for project development and I begin to wonder how many project development is one token having so in other words they are thief and will release the reserve token small by small and pocket the money even after large sum from ico that is not spend on anything.

[xbudahx]

I do not think that 50% of failed ICOs is too much. In any business, percentage of loss-making campaigns is high. If we take the sphere of startups, only one project out of ten survives there. So, it is not so bad in the field of ICO as it is given in media

You are absolutely right 50% is a very good indicator, unfortunately as a result of my observations the percentage of failed ICO is more than 90%.

[ACHANCE]

WEAK BUSINESS PLAN

[V-t.Ester]

As far as I understand, when somebody creates tokens for ICO, he spends minimum money for this and the main goal of the ICO and bounty by itself is to find investors and to collect money for project. Sometimes they collect not enough money and close ICO because they can’t start their project. I guess, this is one of the most widespread reasons, why ICO fails.

[Pajdo]

it could be because the attractiveness of investors is currently declining, maybe this has an effect from the current unstable BTC and ETH prices.

I agree with you completely.
Market is very bearish, BTC and ETH are unstable and people don`t really want to invest anymore. I am one of them as well.
9 months without any ICO investment and still dont want to..

[robertycore]

not all ico fail the problem is to identify the good one from garbage

[dodgecharger]

Many ICO projects are now very informal. If you encounter government supervision and review, you will almost never escape the fate of failure.

[KillerAgency347]

Lots of fake and scamming ico's ruining tha market place.

[Servantes]

A wrong token metric can be a significant reason. There are many ICOs intending to raise such a high amount of money not reasonably for their project. Holding most of the tokens for themselfs, and offering only a very small part for investors can also be problematic.

[turquaise]

because of scam companies. people lost their interest because that i think. whenever people trust again, ico's rise again.

[Wilfrer]

There are many reasons for the failure of the ICOs. We can count on the idea of creating an ICO that does not appeal to investors, repetitive or inappropriate ideas. In addition, poor or inexperienced management and the direction of ICOs are not conducive to ICOs that are not reputable. So investors are not interested in it and do not invest in it, so it fails

[kokrokok]

I think many ico have failed because prices on the market are currently cheap (BTC and EtH) or maybe they don't have real products and marketing teams that don't have good strategies to attract investors

[Zedxxx]

The main reason for ICO fail is mostly ICO is the scam. Also as a result of a poor managements and unrealistic expectations.

[londawzen]

There may be a lot of reasons here, but I think the main reason is that people don't want to invest their money in projects in a falling market, so they just fix deposits.