IEO are the bad face of Exchanges. I don't find them interesting. It's not that just filing a google spreadsheet with some data that makes a coin more reliable. With IEO Eschanges pump and dump as they earn more fees.
When you are not speculators and you will definitely say if that was a bad thing but for those have earned more than 10x return for their investment and they will say the opposite thing. IEO gives more guarantees than ico and that looks better even exchange site was taking a little fee but that's not a big deal.
As long as the platform can be trusted and i have no problem with it.
I don't say that IEO are bad. I only say that they are bad as Ico. Someone also earned a lot with Ico as well... But the trend is to give an angel face to IEO because big exchanges promotes them. They only do it form money, so there's no guarantee that the project is reliable. In the past I invested in projects that had incredible staff, and bla bla bla.... fake news, anyone can build a feke reputation on Linkedin, they don't verify you, you can write you are a president of an unknown president, you can drive a Ferrari and have 100 properties... So just don't rely to words. I also don't believe on Coins that have big guys or Managers behind... This is not a guarantee of success, but in my opinion is even worst as big guys if d not earn money immediately they give up. Dreamers and people that wants to change their life, could potentially do much better.