Reasons why ICOs fail

[Stella27]

One thing that makes an ico fail is that it is lack of concepts of project and being not realistic and not useful to the people. And also lack of investors to fund the project.

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[AiloveYouks21]

Most ico fail because a project doesn't attract the attention of investors and they don't have much capital to advertise.

[paramelton]

The main reason why ICO's fall is that they don't collect enough money to realize their project. They mainly sell their tokens for ethereum, and many of them hold this ethereum till the end of ICO in case if they don't reach soft cap. But last months ETH has dropped and even if they reach 5k$ soft cap, as an example, at the end of the ICO that is still not enough. So they try to extend the project or just wait for better times. But in mid time they lost investors trust and interest, and project dies.

[xvids]

Not enough investor,
They couldn't get enough funds to continue their project.
There have so many competitive team and the other have a better plan and way more creative than their team.

[ipsec2]

The main reason is that they do not carry anything. They say that they want to change the world, but essentially nothing. Even plans on how to do it.

In order to advertise the EMMARES project, someone stole my account  (ipsec ) on bitcointalk. Super project for scam people

[Backupnime]

There is a big amount of reasons. First and foremost is that majority of develipers aren't aimed to deliver product,they just scam people and don't offer revolutionary service

and the main reason for many ico fail, developer team leave their project after run for few month or year after their product released in public without any development

[ilya_safronov]

I fully agree only with the second point, very few really interesting projects, which in real life will be needed and will be popular among the ordinary people. The first item considered controversial because no matter how difficult was not a project the investor is obliged to understand it before you invest your money.

[otunyot]

There are many reasons for failed ICO,  but I will like to emphasis on the world wide revolutionary phenomenon of ICO investment within the context of changing the world.  Nobody care about a project changing the world because we all know that is easier said. However,  the community want to see an idea that improves existing system or a unique concept that have immediate impact!

[Bitcoincole]

Merely few ICO campaign being developed in a blockchain 50% have failed to reach the softcap. which it happens make it failure to continue to funded or make it scam in the end. This is address to the circulations of market trends having a very struggling to make profit, making a lot of investors run out because of losing ROI.

[Abolaji11]

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.

Very well said. It is true that most ico fails because they have no real use case. Their whitepaper full of fake promise and the ico developer create a lot of hype around their project. They also offer huge reward to bounties and airdrop.

[Rostock]

Most of the ICO is a common Scam. There is still a certain percentage of ICOS that have too weak projects or they simply can not raise enough funds. And only occasionally there are projects that are all good with both the project and investors who are willing to invest in them.

[InfiniteGrim]

There are quite a few reasons, one of the reasons is that there are too many projects and investors often simply can not choose the project and make the right decision. And secondly, with the fall of the market, the number of investors that are ready to invest in ICO has dramatically decreased.

[10c]

Now it is difficult to plan an idea or a project that would have since become very popular , because most of the projects are similar to each other.

[Grim149x]

I agree, if I may add to that the current bear market are killing ICO's which are good projects. There is not much they can do but to up their game in the current situation of the market.

[MD Nur Hossain]

Generally, caused by an undesirable notion as well as for a lot of techie motives, a lot of ICOs don't succeed. For that reason, committing to just about any ICO can be high risk, it is very important to seek out assignments that will attempt to avoid this kind of faults. Naturally, many of the most offering start-ups may possibly don't succeed. In case you prefer to keep hold of your expenditure prior to winning, be sure you appraise the long-term tactic in the undertaking.

[MAXENATOR]

ICO projects are so unsuccessful solely because of the incompetence of their organizers.
They decided that you can just raise money, and there as it will.

[RPWaRs]

lots of icos that only have a whitepaper with full of ideas in it and they dont even have a product prototype for investors to see or try. that could be the reason too.

[Sissebrahima]

Failure of the ICO, because their number has increased significantly, but the number of investors has not increased. Competition has led to a decrease in investment in ICO. At the same time, I would say that the quality of the projects still wants improvement. This is also the reason for the decrease in investment. However, ICO has a good perspective.

[hardinero007]

icos failed because of several reasons:
1. they are designed to fail in the first place. the dev team's sole mission is to scam people's money.
2. too much money raised from ico.  this tends to tempt the dev team to just run away with ico fund.
3. lack of skills. many ico are offered in rush without proper preparation. this is a recipe for disaster.
4. lack of interested people to invest.

[muddy waters]

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.

In my opinion, the second reason is even more important than the first one - lack of unique ideas is what prevents projects from being successful.
Take Eth, for example. Why did it become so popular? Because Buterin and Co. suggested unique functions that none of the blockchains had by that time.