What do you think are the factors that propel the coin price of projects?
Experienced Team?
Market Readiness?
Product Value?
Timing?
or other?
In short-term it's often about something that can be hyped up. Even the worst project gets attention if it gets a listing on a new exchange. Imagine a small copycat on bittrex and Polo would list it - price would drive up, but of course it would also be dumped back short after. If you take a look at coinmarketcap.com into the charts, it's nearly always the same pattern.
But I personally always try to find pearls. And then it's about everything and of course, the team is the most important aspect because it needs expertise to build develop something with value, additionally connections are good, also some marketing-skills are important.
Interesting is: Sometimes that's not enough to get attention on the market. I've seen that with Factom at least from their launch on Polo (October 15) until their listing on Yuanbao (December 15). There was nearly no volume while they have all of the above (ok, they don't do marketing for Factoids but for business). In Factom the attention-level slowly increased over time, because more and more people figured that it has potential.
And Antshares: It's too early to know much about their "product", but at least it's safe that it's a very skilled team and it's safe that they have connections (also to big chinese exchanges) and it's also safe that they didn't rush this out. Just if you take a look when their official antshares-account was registered:
Date Registered: June 27, 2014, 06:20:13 AM
Or
Twitter: also June 2014
Under the line, for a really good project, everything is important in my opinion. If I find something I don't recognize what I call "barriers" (concerns about important aspects) I buy and that's rare. I'm very carefully with buying into ICO's and also on the market. I burned enough of my fingers with shitcoins. ;-)
And what's great in ANS (not so much for the team maybe): This did not get that much attention in the western world. I mean, Waves got near to $20 Mio in their ICO. This is valued at about $15 Mio while it's much bigger and I believe: much(!) better. And: It will get attention when it launches. I'm not concerned that this will go below the ICO-price. I believe there are high chances that the opposite will happen, especially if they make it to launch on big chinese exchanges in combination with Polo. Imagine the heat in the trollbox if it should be about "Have you heard? Antshares on Huobi!!!" ;-)
Of course, I can't know if that will happen but I believe the chance is there.