Why Will you Invest in Ethereum ICO if it is just Starting ?

[Chuky92]

In my studies, I've come to understand that ICO and IPO are very similar, as they are fundraising strategies for startups.

Here are the areas of differences.

1. ICO are mostly for crypto and Blockchain backed new startups, who need funds to build their businesses, while IPO are for companies that have track performance, that want to raise funds  to scale operations.

2. ICO is like crowd funding, which has less regulation, but IPO are heavily regulated.

Here is what I want us to discuss.

Since ICO investment is very risky as it depends the new startup whitepaper and the token, how did we know Ethereum would become successful through it IPO?

If Ethereum is to start afresh and do an ICO, why will you invest?

Just like you already mentioned, both are fundraising strategies and I think both comes with their own risk, since investing is involved, hence i believe that before starting with any, one need to understand the risks involved. In the crypto space, unique ideas matters which is why, most projects do not struggle or find it hard to meet their hard cap during their fundraising while others struggles a lot in some case might be left with only soft cap or slightly higher. So this adequately shows that, unique idea is very important and that is what Ethereum offered to the crypto space, hence many projects which are huge today were given the opportunity to start on an already developed blockchain instead of starting from the scratch. Therefore, with this few points and many others about Ethereum, if the team are to start another fundraising now, I don't think it will last long, and yes I will invest.

[bounceback]

I will invest on ICO ethereum when know ho reaching up price right now, but I think now only etehreum almost coin at the first time launching become good project and have potential price for the future with higher price, just one year after many ICO success we got many project failed with delay listing, lower price than ICO after listing and we got many scammer of ICO project without have time for listing until right now. But now many investor of ICO move to IEO project and many of them invest with launchpad ICO coin listed on Binance, now have many failed project not only IEO, ICO because we can't trust with investor.

[prince V]

Very interesting question, to be honest I wasn't familiar with the crypto world at that time so I don't know how progress they made when they first launched their ICO. Maybe if at that time there was hype that caught our attention then we would definitely read their whitepaper and would discover something new that would bring about big changes in the crypto world which of course we should not miss the opportunity to join them.

[iv4n]

Ethereum is a name now! So people would invest in a famous name! But years ago when I started with crypto back in 2014 trusted forum members and many others were talking how big scam eth is! Now you don't have many people claiming that! It's like something that happens to every project, people are distrustful at first! When you think about it bitcoin was not accepted by everyone too, even now you have people who don't believe in btc!
DYOR, it's ok to see what other people have to say, it's alright to skip investing in some project because some red flags, but there's no flawless project, there are good ideas that needs to be realized, problems to be solved, developing and updating never stops, and if you think that the project is worth taking the risk, that team is dedicated you should try it if you believe in it!

[Dollar_Hunter]

joining Ethereum ICO is very risky, I never joined it,
it's just that I bought IEO on a big exchange like Binance,
lastly I just bought IEO from Cartesi and thank goodness I got 2x from there.

[Nivia1st]

In my studies, I've come to understand that ICO and IPO are very similar, as they are fundraising strategies for startups.

Here are the areas of differences.

1. ICO are mostly for crypto and Blockchain backed new startups, who need funds to build their businesses, while IPO are for companies that have track performance, that want to raise funds  to scale operations.

2. ICO is like crowd funding, which has less regulation, but IPO are heavily regulated.

Here is what I want us to discuss.

Since ICO investment is very risky as it depends the new startup whitepaper and the token, how did we know Ethereum would become successful through it IPO?

If Ethereum is to start afresh and do an ICO, why will you invest?

IPO has very strict regulations and only companies with good quality can conduct IPO. different when compared to the ICO which even with the project Team anonymously they are still accepted. And what if ethereum starts from scratch and does an ICO, will I invest?

my answer is yes, even if there is currently no official market for ethereum i will still invest. Just by reading their whitepaper, everyone will be interested in what the ethereum team is going to launch. We will go back to the first year that ethereum was released, there is no ICO term, no project created using SmartContrac, no project fraud, crypto exchanges are not like today, crypto has not even been seen as a threat to the financial system. and at that time many people supported the ethereum project, even though they did not know what would happen to the project in the future, or the real use for the ethereum platform, the project might fail during development, but they still supported it. So back to today, we already know the picture that is going to happen given the interest from mainstream companies to blockchain. and it is too difficult to create a private blockchain network. ethereum is like a gold project that I can't afford to miss. And that's the reason I invested if ethereum was just released today and an ICO wasn't there before.

[kingzpro]

In my studies, I've come to understand that ICO and IPO are very similar, as they are fundraising strategies for startups.

Here are the areas of differences.

1. ICO are mostly for crypto and Blockchain backed new startups, who need funds to build their businesses, while IPO are for companies that have track performance, that want to raise funds  to scale operations.

2. ICO is like crowd funding, which has less regulation, but IPO are heavily regulated.

Here is what I want us to discuss.

Since ICO investment is very risky as it depends the new startup whitepaper and the token, how did we know Ethereum would become successful through it IPO?

If Ethereum is to start afresh and do an ICO, why will you invest?

I do not know why would Ethereum look for an IPO or ICO at this point of time because they are already up and running with huge revenues and multiple sources of income. Even if they want to raise funds that will not be a problem for such a huge project, they can raise millions if they ask for that through some official announcement.

[Sebas.tian]

how did we know Ethereum would become successful through it IPO?

It's simple they create their whitepaper and posted it many people see how good the Ethereum's whitepaper is and look their ANN thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428589.0 well some of the ICO's we can see have a very poor whitepaper and most of their ideas are useless.

I have another thought about the whitepaper as a parameter to determine the prospects of a project.
what if a good copywriter is employed to craft a whitepaper for a bad project. it may mislead investors. I believe there should other ways to determine the authenticity of a project by investors.

Off-course mate, there are good perfect copywriters in the industry, more reasons why some good looking projects from their whitepapers look beautiful but in real world just another garbage. There's no way we can actually figure out these good copywriters from the system but investors should be more careful about the projects they choose to invest. Thousands of misleading projects around from inception, the only way out is to research properly about a project before put funds into it.   

[Zeehaxan]

In my studies, I've come to understand that ICO and IPO are very similar, as they are fundraising strategies for startups.

Here are the areas of differences.

1. ICO are mostly for crypto and Blockchain backed new startups, who need funds to build their businesses, while IPO are for companies that have track performance, that want to raise funds  to scale operations.

2. ICO is like crowd funding, which has less regulation, but IPO are heavily regulated.

Here is what I want us to discuss.

Since ICO investment is very risky as it depends the new startup whitepaper and the token, how did we know Ethereum would become successful through it IPO?

If Ethereum is to start afresh and do an ICO, why will you invest?

Obviously yes, if ethereum launches a new funding round in form of ipo or ico and the prices are set below market price then everyone will rush to buy eth and im sure the hard cap will hit within minutes.

[sarmrakib]

Since ICO investment is very risky as it depends the new startup whitepaper and the token, how did we know Ethereum would become successful through it IPO?

If Ethereum is to start afresh and do an ICO, why will you invest?

As long as there is no security for your investment it's always risky for the side of investors even its ICO or IPO the results can be the same.

For ethereum yes they are offering something to crypto world that other coins can't solve so if they start again their ICO I will surely invest in them.

Can you imagine it that Eth start ico it will never happen once again .We need to focus on upcoming top project which has a strong base and idea of business that will help the project rise rapidly .I always research myself the latest project and invest on it wisely .

[lousie9]

For every Etherium success there are 1000 Etherium failure here on crypto land.

What failures has the Ethereum token experienced? try to mention some of the 1000 failures, maybe it can be a good discussion for everyone here, including I also want to know more about it.

maybe he meant the failure of most of the tokens generated from the ethereum platform. although not all of them but the fact that there are thousands of erc20 tokens in the cryptourrency space is useless and new coins sometimes have a hard time staying in the market for long.

[GelatikKembar]

For every Etherium success there are 1000 Etherium failure here on crypto land.

What failures has the Ethereum token experienced? try to mention some of the 1000 failures, maybe it can be a good discussion for everyone here, including I also want to know more about it.

maybe he meant the failure of most of the tokens generated from the ethereum platform. although not all of them but the fact that there are thousands of erc20 tokens in the cryptourrency space is useless and new coins sometimes have a hard time staying in the market for long.

Difficulty staying for a long time in the exchange because there is no demand,
that's the risk of new projects, not necessarily all new projects are good, many don't survive and die,
especially in the crypto currency world it's very hard, the project must really have strong fundamentals and good development.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

I always underestimate against something new, definitely no I guess. I mean, I will not spend my money to investing in ethereum when it was just started. Yeah, at that time it was just several altcoins like XRP and litecoin, I may focus to store my money in bitcoin and I would collect as much as possible.

Indeed, ICO investment is really risky, you never know who take/collect your money, it is really different from IPO that was managed by someone/some parties so as your money at least will save because you can meet the people who manage your nmoney.

But, investing always a risk, as you may know, the term of high risk, high gain and low risk, low gain, you can pick one of them. Can you imagine, how profit that will get by ethereum investors because they only need one year to gain a lot of profit because at 2017 ethereum price was touched $1400.

[Wenbing]

For ethereum yes they are offering something to crypto world that other coins can't solve so if they start again their ICO I will surely invest in them.

That line in your comment look vague and ambiguous. What exactly is etheruem offering that gives it a preferential advantage over other coins?
The more specific we are, the less confuse we become.

Once a time ICOs were most popular, and a few good projects succeed in their goals. But lately, ICOs are just coming with worst and repeat ideas and scamming peoples. Doesn't matter they writing a good whitepaper, if their intention isn't good then we can't do anything. ICO/IPO time is over almost, seems there is a trend of DeFi and I believe it will end up very soon. So it's very risky to invest in crypto lately and better to avoid investing in that. At least I am not gonna invest there.

I believe investment in the crypto space should now be determine by how innovative is a project. Here is one thing that is sure, we cant avoid investment, especially if that is your career path.

But, investment with caution always pays.

[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]

[Sirait]

^ I am very detailed with emerging projects, first of course I will read in detail what their concepts are in the Whitepaper. and at that time Ethereum was the first project to introduce smart contracts so this is definitely my reason to invest in Eth if it just started.

[darewaller]

At the end of the day it is a risk that people are taking and they are free to take any risk they want. Nobody could guarantee a return from something like this, we all know that it is highly unlikely that when you join a new ICO and they are brand new and show nothing but few web pages and some whitepaper, that is it so you know that you are getting at the bare bottom.

However if you trust them, you could make a big profit, if you do not trust them, you may end up losing a lot of money. For example, there is this token that I am looking at these days, they are giving a decent amount of return right now and if I end up joining, with both investment and also airdrops and bounties and everything included, I could actually 6x my money according to what they assume price will be. But they are saying what it will be, they can't guarantee it, so I haven't joined yet.

[Akiko]

At the end of the day it is a risk that people are taking and they are free to take any risk they want. Nobody could guarantee a return from something like this, we all know that it is highly unlikely that when you join a new ICO and they are brand new and show nothing but few web pages and some whitepaper, that is it so you know that you are getting at the bare bottom.

However if you trust them, you could make a big profit, if you do not trust them, you may end up losing a lot of money. For example, there is this token that I am looking at these days, they are giving a decent amount of return right now and if I end up joining, with both investment and also airdrops and bounties and everything included, I could actually 6x my money according to what they assume price will be. But they are saying what it will be, they can't guarantee it, so I haven't joined yet.

It's not about how you trust the project but in the project development . Even how you trust it if they will failed to make it or develop the project it will crash and   then you will lose your money because many other investors that also trust the project will sell their tokens at loss.

And that's what most of the sales happening right now they are only good at the start but they don't really know what they are going to build and how they can do it that's why more of them is a failure.

[pandanaran]

Ethereum has made many improvements, proven product development in the market and certainly is nothing but a reliable team in managing the ethereum project. Regarding the price, I think Ethereum still has a great opportunity to continue to grow and develop in the future. So, this is the main reason I trust the Ethereum project.

[Galley]

Over the years that have passed since the launch of ethereum, it has already proven how trustworthy it is and how people treat it. An excellent team that continues to develop successfully will not let him fade away.

[dhemasm]

Let's say i'm already knowing Ethereum will become Major Cryptocurrency and i can Jump Back Time to 2014 Basically i will, but if didn't know anything on that year like today basically Depends on some condition, It's Simple logic with current ICO market but more likely on that year scammy ICO hasn't been that much like today. The answer is possible but maybe I'm just curious and won't invest too much ($1- $10)