Reasons why ICOs fail

[soramon]

The reason why ICO fail is their concept not strong enough. Mostly the project run right now dont have new idea or already run by other project. So, investor wont spend their money in that project. Another reason is the condition of market is not healthy

[CapnBDL]

There can be a lot of reasons, for example, very strong competitors who will do better. For example, scammers who originally created a project to deceive. For example, states that prevented the development of the project. A lot of reasons may be.

[nwosuchristabe2]

Due to the ease of creating smart contracts, so many persons believe that organising an ICO is an easy way to make quick money. They are only interested in getting listed and dumping the tokens on investors. ICO's scam is more prevalent in the cryptocurrency space due to the ill conceived notion, that it's a lucrative scheme. It takes more than getting listed for a project to stand the test of time. My advice is to abstain from ICO's without a clear use case.

[kiwoh123]

I think ICOs is not very popular now that's why many ICO failed, and also last year ICOs and crypto were like very high hype and now the hype is gone. as we know ICO prices are always down after listing in exchange, which is why many people do not want to invest in the ICOs.

[dobolspeed3]

I think ICOs is not very popular now that's why many ICO failed, and also last year ICOs and crypto were like very high hype and now the hype is gone. as we know ICO prices are always down after listing in exchange, which is why many people do not want to invest in the ICOs.

But some people like investing in ICO a lot. They think that investment in ICO is profitable and there are also disadvantages. So, in my opinion, ICO is still a success and there are still some who fail.

[adamreb]

Such a situation actually had to happen sometime. The market can not show constant rapid growth. I have long been waiting for the correction of the market and the deterioration of the situation. Moreover, due to the increasing ICO competition and the increasing number of scammers. But I believe that the situation with time will improve in any case, just need to wait.

[Maady]

Because people now getting smarter and understand that every ico raising millions of dollars without any solid work are just here for milking investor. they remember how icos exploited the system in past by taking care of angle and seed investors who dumps their bags on poor investors.

[Firefoxx]

Just like you mentioned, there are diverse reasons why ICOs fail, some lack the right marketing strategy, some lack good product and some just lack the right vision.

[cryptolord2077]

The main reason is that the majority of projects do not need their own coins, they are created only to raise funds, which further does not help the development of the project, and the coin turns into garbage.

[MOProgress]

In recent times I will say that most ICOs fail because of no trust from investors in their projects, previously there was a less scam but now scam everywhere.

[speeder]

You are right, and the sad part it's that this situation continues emerging and it can't be solved at all.But we have to recognize that the ICO market it's very saturated and it's pretty hard to find a new idea which another project didn't addressed.

[exoHash-EXH]

In recent times I will say that most ICOs fail because of no trust from investors in their projects, previously there was a less scam but now scam everywhere.

Indeed. For us it is really difficult to get any resonance at all. Though all information are available and publicly available like our VAT number, etc. Another thing is, that people should stop making ICOs to finance a project. A lot of IT based projects can be done with own financial resources. At least, developers should show a working prototype at the ICO date.

[terahash]

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, most ico only provide mainstream products and are not interested by investors, that is why their ICO fails and there are also many developers who are unfamiliar and don't understand the crypto world well.

[veekky]

ICOs can fail due to multiple reasons. One of them is that ICo has too big hardcap and during negative trend it is harder to collect funds on crowdsale. At the moment I would leave no more than 1mln $ for crowdsale

[kotajikikox]

Lack of support from the community or lack of interest if the project are not useful for daily lives. There's so many reason why wasn't successful, the investor's looking for the future not for the short time.

[yarelydiaz]

1. No need for decentralization or token economy for a particular project.
2. The absolute vulnerability of investors and impunity for the organizers of the Scam.
3. No possibility to return funds to a specific investor if he is not satisfied with the attitude of the development team and deviation from the roadmap/ initial idea.
4. Immaturity of the market and high sensitivity to any crypto news/panic.
5. External political and regulatory factors exerting pressure on the whole industry.

[bangkecol]

there are too many aspect of fail ico. and one of them is there is no good promotion.
Ico can be successfull is there is huge promotion like google adword,FB ads and many others.

[raptorez]

The fact is that today there are real requirements for projects, they have already been established by the SEC, which is somehow strangely trying to really bring many projects to a pure scheme. But I don’t think that most projects today will want to have similar needs in general.

[killat]

Most of ICOs fail as they don't have a real and useful product/platform/service behind.

In 4 or 5 years 99% of these Alt coins will be worth zero! Even if the technology of the ones that survive gets adopted, there is very little use case for many actual tokens!

[Golftech]

there are too many aspect of fail ico. and one of them is there is no good promotion.
Ico can be successfull is there is huge promotion like google adword,FB ads and many others.

That can be an additional factors but in reality investors already tired of same promises, they wanted to see real usage and the fact that most of those projects that being introduce has the same pattern and offers, they failed to bring out the important piece of their project, real usage and target venue
if they can't bring investors interest regarding to this project will be run out of interest/support for sure.