Topic: Is ICO WhitePaper Matter Most? - page 13. (Read 2841 times)

For me I depend on the team activeness. Reviewing their team and advisors profile is also an important factor, I always appreciate those ICOs that spending their time for roadshow, for introducing their project, to get themselves involve to different blockchain conference, sharing and updates on social media platform. This is easy but also take times for effort to build up the network and to see the teams' willingness to learn and to share.

Second is the road map and third is the whitepaper. As long as it can convince me, and no duplication or plagiarism from other projects, i think I am willing to get involve to their crowdsale.

for white paper is not really important I always check if the team is there in their website and active team.

Yes, just like you i dont treat whitepaper as a reference whether the ICO is real or not for me one of my best reference finding a real bounty campaign of an existing ICO is the team road show. Road show is how the team promote their product in a public conference. Schedule of places where they have a speech. So having these acticity can proof that the project is real existing and not created by mind without act

WP is just one of the tips if you should spend time looking into the project. So if it's poorly written, you usually see it right away and can save significant amount of time.

Nice pic 

I invested in few projects and got results as well. I use to email of linked in contact to the member listed on the ICO website.
this time I want to invest in Atonomi seems like a good project but they are not inviting.

I pretty much agree with you, but still for me the whitepaper is important and shows somehow how the team works.

I agree. The ICO whitepaper is quite an important element because this is what investors read first and plays as an important role in determining if they should invest or not. But at the same time there is no point in having a cool idea and a well written whitepaper if advertising is shit, cause no one will know about it

Yes, whitepaper plays an important role in the Ico's project because in the whitepaper there is a roadmap and it is an authoritative report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter.

WP is important, but its not be-all, and end-all.

If somebody had the experienced to distinguish, read and understand then one will be able to say that a project is a crap.  That is why i decided to just buy an altcoin when it is already listed but of course get to know it first before rushing in. Money don't come and go. Money is earn(ed) and will be wasted, wise decision is a must.

Don't trust only one source, Find out more sources Rating sites, Online presence the team in history, Team related to the project matter, Communtiy relations etc

There's a lot of ICO discontinue their project, is it a sign that some of the people here are begin to think and know that some of them are only collecting the money of their investors then, suddenly disappear.. One of the project I invested small amount because this project is totally active in social media almost perfect, but declaring that they will not going to continue the project, and they say that they will going to refund the investors money, the saddest part up until now, there is no refund.. It's given that they've run the money..

I think Yes it is - we all used to step on a rake and not a time. The number of ICO increases every day and companies only need to get your money out of you. Write a fabulous white paper, draw a perfect site and the idea of the project can be any advanced PC user, but to make a really great product should try.
If you are sure that you can recognize a good ICO thanks to the lists and ratings — I will upset you. Although they were originally created for those who find it difficult to understand this topic itself, and it is much easier to go to the rating and choose a project with a high rating, there is no less fraud, with which a high score is gaining Scam projects.
And yet, when choosing your ICO in addition to the beautifully written white paper and the site, I would recommend you to pay attention to such things as:
Uniqueness, necessity of idea;
Clear goal;
Scalability;
Transparency and accuracy of budget;
The concept, the product;
Team;
The distribution of tokens.
Of course, ICO, which satisfy all the points, not so much. But the options of "profitable investment” and" many investments " are not equal to each other: you can invest in one successful project, and you can in 10 failures. So good luck with your choice.

It is not enough to invest in a ICO, it is one of the important thing, but there are other criteria, like team, project target, community, history of project etc.

There've been some good points here but it's worth reiterating that the most important factor is whether or not there is a market or need for the project.

You could have the best team and product and whitepaper in the world but if there isn't any real need for it then it will fail.

I'd also rank having a MVP highly, followed by team and whitepaper.

The Blockpass medium page might have a blog going up about this soon.

Most of the white papers are describing what team wants a project to be
But in the process of developing there are lots of obstacles which wont let
create a perfect product

The whitepaper can be well-written and there you can understand how much time the team spend on whitepaper, even some whitepapers look so beautiful also their website, and they are only halo-effects. What I do is to contact directly the team members on Telegram, if they respond fast and good its shows their dedication to project.

That image sums up perfectly my feelings of the one coin I'm invested at all in at the moment: Cardano.

The whitepaper reads like an academic journal article or a PhD thesis, even. It was in fact co-written by several PhDs. Cardano sits in the top 10 by market cap, and I think 80% of its value is driven by the fact that the whitepaper insists the coin is brilliant.

Why do I say this? Because the coin's only wallet, Daedalus, hasn't worked in over 5 months! There are a few work-arounds to get it in semi-functional status, but frequently the entire blockchain has to be deleted and re-downloaded, then you need to sync your computer clock using this or that program... Then you have to leave the wallet open 24/7 or risk starting the process over again. It's a real horse's ass of a coin.

The only reason I'm still invested in it is because I can't get my wallet to open to sell my coins.

So in the case of Cardano and its resounding "success," yes, the whitepaper does matter the most. I frankly don't know how it manages to continue sitting in the top 20.

I guess Whitepaper is just a par t of significant things in the ico to become successful, then in my perception I think the company profile of the

company in the ico  is what matter most, from the Founder/CEO, team behind the company, also their good background  or etc. something like

that which I think is the important matter anyway.

Honestly I have written tens of ICO whitepapers and only few have seen light of the day. The problem I noticed is most project founders have an idea but do not know how to communicate it to their investor target audience. All of them are interested in having the same structure as a project they identified as successful due to successful crowdfunding.

I advice people who come to me to have their unique idea communicated in a unique way to their identified target audience. This is mainly due to most of the utility tokens need an uptake by targeted project users for the token to gain traction in the market. It is more of getting your target audience to understand of your project and not forcing them to read a technical WP they may not understand anyway. So it should be simple unless the target audience/investor/users have a technical background to be interested to read the whole document.

Otherwise, for projects that are serious and targeting general investors without technical know how of tokenization use a simple whitepaper version at most 10 pages with lots of infographics on how your idea is revolutionary.
Alternatively, invest in Pitch Decks which are short and extensively use illustrations which is complemented by your presentation (because you the one who understands technical details) should be easy and not be a headache or boring for investors.
That is my take!