I do not know why! I only think that Ico project is a more modern Ponzi method right now.
How about you, YES OR NOR ?
I think too that there's a lot of scams around. Up to 90% of ICOs are totally fake, as many say. But it doesn't mean that the rest of the ICOs are bad.
So, what's the best way for you to differentiate between the good and bad ICOs?
I think that the best way is to look into the team. As many responders in such threads say the team is the key. The ICO might not have the extremely detailed plan or all the devs that it needs to succeed, but if you have the great leadership team at the top, it means that they can help the project reach its goals and they can help it transform into something else.
The team might not have the clear idea on their plans for the future
The core team might not actually now how exactly they might be going to do what they are set on doing. That's why it's hard to get the developers in place, get the supporting staff in place, get the creatives in place and then tap into the collaborative hive-mind.
There was no certainty about Facebook's future either
Although there were some people that believed that Facebook will be... the next Facebook))), even the venture capitalists just seeded it with the money and moved on. No venture capitalst (VC) in their right mind would even try to pinpoint that very startup that's going to go big.
Everybody knows that 9 out of 10 startups either fail competely or mop along with no "strike the gold" action, but nobody knows which one of them is going to go big. It's just very hard to learn this.
However, statistics is what rules this universe. If you a little bit of money in 10 businesses, there's a 1 out of 10 chance that you will find the next FB. If you invest in in 1000 businesses, there's still a 10% chance, but now you have 100 Facebooks in your portfolio.
Well, they might actually not be these 100 startups around to do that, but you get me, right?
So, the best thing to do is like that, imho:
1) Identy the good leadership team- those guys have long-time linkedin accounts, which means that they are not going to scooch with your money
2) Invest a little bit into the promising projects and see how it goes.
People who invested in BTC and ETH were also hearing all the time that both are scams. In 2013, when I heard about BTC, I just shrugged off this "crap". You surely understand how I feel now