Before investing in any ICO you have to check everything about ICO’S legitimacy, for that you have to deeply study the project, check social media record of that project which will show you popularity of the project.
After this if you are satisfied with that project then you can invest in project.
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Initial coin offering is becoming very stressful business these days. Stressful ? Well, ICO may look best investment of all time at the first time. However, as you start investing your money into ICO you will realise that you have jumped into the sinking boat which have no lifeboat at all. The more you go into it the more you will see how difficult it is to manage your investment into it. You will first come to know that when they will sit the coin over the exchanger is not mentioned and when you ask them then they will keep reasoning you about it. If after hard time has passed and the coin has got listed then you will realise that the price of coin is very very less as compared to what it was at the time of your purchase. Thus, things go wrong and doesnt come as expected.
If you are a good researcher then first check the ICO team and market value and the expert opinion and their ranking in the ICO bench and then investment through forum is also a good way and if you have some savings then investment in ICO is good way of making money and now the holding is strategy i am following.
Economic tokens are still relatively new, and the ability to use them in any capacity has not been achieved. This token owner will realize that the ability to spend it will largely determine how valuable the investment is at first. 
1. I'm thinking of it, to be honest base on my observation ICO nowadays are not profitable.
2. Forum and facebook
3. Reliable team ofcouse, team is the key of success of every ICO.
4. Whitepapers
2. Forum and facebook
3. Reliable team ofcouse, team is the key of success of every ICO.
4. Whitepapers
Guys, am I doing an academic research for the completion work of my undergraduate and would you like to count on the help of the community?
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1. Have you invested or are you thinking of investing in an ICO?
2. By what means of communication did you hear about the last ICOs you remember?
a) Forum
b) Youtube
c) Blogs
d) Technology Sites
e) Cryptomeo sites
f) Facebook
g) Instagram
i) Investment and business sites
What do you think is the time to invest in an ICO? Priority order.
the idea
b) Team
c) Market that an ICO will act
d) How much has already been invested
e) Price
f) Support (investors and partners)
3. What do you evaluate when investing in an ICO? Priority order.
the idea
b) Team
c) Market that ICO will act
d) How much has already been invested
e) Price
f) Support (investors and partners)
4. When you invest in an ICO you look.
a) Promotional video
b) Whitepapper
c) Site
d) History of the team and investors
e) Presentations
Please take note, that before you invest in a particular ICO, you must make sure that you have read their whitepaper because in whitepaper, they all have the information there about their developers and the coin that they are going to create. This questionnaire is fast.
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1. Have you invested or are you thinking of investing in an ICO?
2. By what means of communication did you hear about the last ICOs you remember?
a) Forum
b) Youtube
c) Blogs
d) Technology Sites
e) Cryptomeo sites
f) Facebook
g) Instagram
i) Investment and business sites
What do you think is the time to invest in an ICO? Priority order.
the idea
b) Team
c) Market that an ICO will act
d) How much has already been invested
e) Price
f) Support (investors and partners)
3. What do you evaluate when investing in an ICO? Priority order.
the idea
b) Team
c) Market that ICO will act
d) How much has already been invested
e) Price
f) Support (investors and partners)
4. When you invest in an ICO you look.
a) Promotional video
b) Whitepapper
c) Site
d) History of the team and investors
e) Presentations
Whatever you have written here is all true and yes I look for almost everything that you have mentioned here. Most of the time its the forum who gives me more info about it. Its the simple way to know more abut it because many ICO's will publish their bounties here, signature campaigns and all the other ways of publishing . This mostly gives me lot of info about it and over the time you can also keep on reading many updates in the ANN thread. This is the place where all real people are discussing about the projects and thus giving us info about recent updates. Also I dont really look for team but I look for how effectively they are communicating with us over the telegram etc. Their promotional offers should be attractive and upto the mark then we can understand about it more.
This topic has been discussed how many times in the forum, but still, I always heard the word risk in investing in ICO and some other say that avoid investing they are probably scam. No, that is not true even there are a bunch of projects now emerging but still, there are some other having a potential for investing. Yes, OP was right, checking all documents and team that they had before planning to invest. You can ride the risk if you know how to research before engaging in their project and invest.
i hope this helps :
1. Not yet. Have not thought of that yet
2. a) Forum; b) Team
3. f) Support (investors and partners)
4. d) History of the team and investors
Definitely, it is correct. 1. Not yet. Have not thought of that yet
2. a) Forum; b) Team
3. f) Support (investors and partners)
4. d) History of the team and investors
Investing in an ico will have lot of risk, before investing just go through the project details, white paper, road map, team members. Because nowadays many scam ico's are coming be careful before investing in an ico.
I agree.Only few of the ICOs today are just the real ones who give us good bounty payments and most of them are already scam.So it might be too risky especially for newbies to invest in an ICO.
i hope this helps :
1. Not yet. Have not thought of that yet
2. a) Forum; b) Team
3. f) Support (investors and partners)
4. d) History of the team and investors
1. Not yet. Have not thought of that yet
2. a) Forum; b) Team
3. f) Support (investors and partners)
4. d) History of the team and investors
Find out everything you can about the team, especially the development team and the advisory board. Search each team member for relevant experience. Use Google to find out their profiles and visit their Linkedin profile. It is highly recommended that you read the message carefully in the project announcement thread (ANN) on BitcoinTalk.org. Evaluate the project phase, find this information usually on the main page of the project website. Evaluate the whitepaper, Don't hesitate to read it, or at least most of it, because it contains all the important information about the upcoming project and ICO.
Investing in an ico will have lot of risk, before investing just go through the project details, white paper, road map, team members. Because nowadays many scam ico's are coming be careful before investing in an ico.
I agree.Only few of the ICOs today are just the real ones who give us good bounty payments and most of them are already scam.So it might be too risky especially for newbies to invest in an ICO.
Investing in an ico is possible through different forms of payment modes from debit cards to cryptocurrencies. With most ico's btc and Eth were the accepted payments. Also, you'll receive the tokens only after the ICO, so should not get into panic once after sending payment for the tokens.
Investing in an ico will have lot of risk, before investing just go through the project details, white paper, road map, team members. Because nowadays many scam ico's are coming be careful before investing in an ico.
I agree.Only few of the ICOs today are just the real ones who give us good bounty payments and most of them are already scam.So it might be too risky especially for newbies to invest in an ICO.
I'm looking for ico projects on proven sites and ask experienced hunters. The main thing in the project can be a team, how many have already collected funds for the time of call in the project, as presented and what offers-which product or service. I carefully fetch white paper. 
I have invested in ICO's and if I see one I like I may invest one in the future as well.
Mainly bitcointalk, I do not invest into anything I do not read on here, as long as it is here and has a topic with bunch of pages I can check what other people talked about the ICO and react accordingly. First of all it must have a good idea, secondly the support must be important and thirdly the price must be reasonable. Rest is just details. Definitely the team and the idea, those are the most important aspects of it. History of the team.
Mainly bitcointalk, I do not invest into anything I do not read on here, as long as it is here and has a topic with bunch of pages I can check what other people talked about the ICO and react accordingly. First of all it must have a good idea, secondly the support must be important and thirdly the price must be reasonable. Rest is just details. Definitely the team and the idea, those are the most important aspects of it. History of the team.
Stay away from ICOs. Most of them are scams and some are below their ICO price shortly after they listed on exchanges. We are at bear market that make the odd for a successful ICOs are a lot worse.
1. Have you invested or are you thinking of investing in an ICO?
2. By what means of communication did you hear about the last ICOs you remember?
a) Forum
b) Youtube
c) Blogs
d) Technology Sites
e) Cryptomeo sites
f) Facebook
g) Instagram
i) Investment and business sites
What do you think is the time to invest in an ICO? Priority order.
the idea
b) Team
c) Market that an ICO will act
d) How much has already been invested
e) Price
f) Support (investors and partners)
3. What do you evaluate when investing in an ICO? Priority order.
the idea
b) Team
c) Market that ICO will act
d) How much has already been invested
e) Price
f) Support (investors and partners)
4. When you invest in an ICO you look.
a) Promotional video
b) Whitepapper
c) Site
d) History of the team and investors
e) Presentations
It's really nice that some people are doing academic research on such topics as ICOs.2. By what means of communication did you hear about the last ICOs you remember?
a) Forum
b) Youtube
c) Blogs
d) Technology Sites
e) Cryptomeo sites
f) Facebook
g) Instagram
i) Investment and business sites
What do you think is the time to invest in an ICO? Priority order.
the idea
b) Team
c) Market that an ICO will act
d) How much has already been invested
e) Price
f) Support (investors and partners)
3. What do you evaluate when investing in an ICO? Priority order.
the idea
b) Team
c) Market that ICO will act
d) How much has already been invested
e) Price
f) Support (investors and partners)
4. When you invest in an ICO you look.
a) Promotional video
b) Whitepapper
c) Site
d) History of the team and investors
e) Presentations
1. I never invested in any ICOs but I am working for one now and I believe that more nice ICOs will be appearing with time and perhaps I'll invest in some of them later.
2. I can't recall the last one, but a) and c) (Twitter) seem to be the best choices to me.
3. f, d, a, b, c, e. I'd also add the real product of the company and token's usage as my main factors. I don't trust ICOs created by brand new companies that are only starting their business. And I also don't like these ICOs that are related to creation of new exchanges or blockchain platforms for whatever reasons. I think that a token should be needed as a representation of some product or as means to pay for it.
4. I look at all of the meintioned above while evaluating ICOs, but the whitepaper is the most important thing for me. Promotional video is mainly good to analyze the marketing strength (and thus potential popularity) of an ICO. And you should add a roadmap to this list, since this is also one of the main things people look at to see how clear is the team's vision of their project.
Investing in an ico will have lot of risk, before investing just go through the project details, white paper, road map, team members. Because nowadays many scam ico's are coming be careful before investing in an ico.
If you want to invest in an ICO make sure first if the team composition is really that legit or will really deliver good development on the project. That might be enough but you should DYOR on every aspect of its legitimacy.
Without a good team you are just going to be wasting your money. It is one thing to have a great idea and it is another thing to be able to execute such idea perfectly well. This is one major criterion I always look out for when investing in ICOs. If the team past experience and their diligence to getting work done is satisfactory, then the next thing I move on to is the product.A viable product or at least a proof of concept should be something a team should already have when coming into the scene, which shows their enthusiasm to work. I am not a fan of promises, no matter how fantastic the idea sounds.
Look for a good ICO first because it is very necessary to find the right ICO for us. Because it could be affected by a scam because there are many ICOs that cheat many people.
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