Topic: What makes you invest in an ICO - page 7. (Read 2643 times)

Design may sell, but it is code that makes things go in the long run. You can have many polished turds and people may buy them, but they're still just turds. Trends come and go, good code sticks forever.

P.S. I'd rather get AIDS than buy an iphone.

Agreed because i have bought some tokens on ICO's and i was hesitant at first but thanks the the staff of this forum, they are the ones validating some shady ICOs. I have made some earnings during the release of coins of other ico during the early years and it was really comforting to sell tokens. As u said, upon just viewing there site, it could entail a lot of how the ICO would proceed in the following months.

A team knowledge should not rely on just its programming skills. Would you buy an iphone, just because it can do many things?

People in our days want to see design, user friendliness, they want to feel they have some trendy.

If a projects has terrible design (website and whitepaper) I don't mind a simple whitepaper, but at least it has to follow the directional guidelines of a professional booklet.

That makes me tick. Also the token sale process and detailed explanation makes me feel more comfortable if is detailed and friendly explained.

Everybody's abusing the system atm..
As to real marketing, most companies are startups, they would not be able to do much more than what we see today due to their low budget.

I don't believe in decentralised Real-estate, you can only decentralise so much. Decentralising Real-estate means losing control over quality.
Just because they deal with high value assets doesn't mean they will be succesfull, I think that is a big misunderstanding.
Decentralising government doesn't really work either, you get republics. But then again every governmental structure has flaws. But we can work around that because we are flexible but when it comes to something like Real-Estate where there's no flexibility, there's just am I going to repaint it or not and based on your intention and duration of the hold this will result in yes or no and I think that is harmfull for the industry and consumers alike.
Also in the case of Atlant where you work in a democracy you will have to rely on fellow traders to know what is viable and what is not. And I simply would not trust my peer traders to have sound judgment on real estate, lawyers or anything like that. You need to be very familiar with laws, tax regulations etc for real estate to be profitable or have a good lawyer. For myself I can only really see these projects succeed when you would invest in historically valued buildings such as a castle, windmills, old governmental buildings. But then you'd still be stuck with the costs of renovating.


Blockchain tech is great, amazing and this the core of the revolution you can't tokenize every industry and you would not even want that because it would make a mess of the economy. Though tokenzation of some industry's can he highly beneficial.
But this is just my opinion ofcourse.


I also think some company's aren't directly scamming but are abusing the age of the tech and the ICO structure of fundraising. Wasting investors money and so on, something I haven't noticed attention going to a lot. I also notice there aren't any real marketing researches done, more like; I just lick my finger see what the wind does and follow that.

For their promising words like they will guarantee that your money back. I read the details carefully, I start reading from the team, their experiences, position, achievements and rewards. Next details is the website quality if the informations are already there with a full and clear details. Lastly is being active inside the forum and outside of it.

Supply and demand.
Problem-Solution.
New concepts and idea's made possible by revolutionary technology.

ya thats why we invest in ico, we invest for profit. investing in ico means we expect high profit in long term process

Nice post, which does make total sense.

If they are developing a system that does not require blockchain to work then it is pointless. So why are most ideas out of place.

Simple cause they are into the money and only the money.

I wonder which projects will be develop in the end.

As to the knowledge of the team, if a team gets huge funds it can buy the talents, am not worried about this.

That's a good list, except I would change the ranking.

Depending on how willing and able a team is to exaggerate or be dishonest, they can make "Team Composition" seem better than it really is.  There are many projects that have stacked the team with many people that have little experience or skill related to cryptos, technology or the business that the project wants to enter.

Depending on how willing and able a team is to exaggerate or be dishonest, they can build more hype than others  Or, they can create fake users and therefore make the community seem more active than justified.

The following should be much more important:


Everyone is trying to launch an ICO, and they'll try to put anything and everything onto a blockchain.  Most ICOs' ideas do not need to be on a blockchain.  One ICO is trying to hook up locals with visitors to enhance the travel experience.  Really?  This is a joke.

The following can be misleading:


You'll never know if the code is original or copied.  You'll never know if the team can write software, unless they have software that you can run or use.  Never invest in an ICO that doesn't have software that you can run.  It takes way more skill, work and time to write software than to stack the team, answer questions, hype up the community, creating a video or even writing the white paper.

The interesting project proposal in ico is very important to me (including whitepaper and roadmap), after that, dev activity and even an attractive and responsive campaign manager will also get plus points. The most important factors are the people behind the project and how seriously their business grows in finding business partners. If ico Project only impresses prototypes from scratch and is only done by 1-3 people without advisor. then it will not be too interesting.

You should check out this link quite interesting. It will give you a good idea to the points to take into account before investing in an ICO: https://cryptopotato.com/10-keys-evaluating-initial-coin-offering-ico-investments/

Nice point! indeed this makes sense.

Since there are worries about scams, I try to make sure that the team is not based in one of the corrupt countries, as the risk of exaggerations and lies will increase:

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016

unique target venue and the dev behind the project, I think if the project got a different approach from its target supporters or target area of services
it will gather lots of attention and supports then after the dev are also trustable with huge knowledge about their projects,.

Technology, dev team and marketing must be at top level for me to invest money. Reading the white paper brings a lot of the needed information.

uniqeness & solution solving & meeting people needs

We all want to invest into an ICO project because the goal is to make a profit, that's all. Does anyone invest with the goal of not wanting to profit?

You do hate ICO,eh? but you do really have a point on which most of them do failed and comes worst it ends on becoming a scam which would really be a result on wasting up money but talking on what are the things that i do check first when i decide to invest on an ICO is their whitepaper which i do usually check because you can able to see on what are their aims and their plans on what they are trying to build or launch on here.

If someone held my family hostage and said they'd kill everyone if I don't invest in an ICO, I might consider it.