ICO is not a guarantee that the project will be successful, because most ICO projects are still limited to concepts and do not have clear references,
but projects that don't make ICO or premine are usually serious and good projects.
and I also agree on this, what about your opinion?
But they need funding, they are holding crowdfunding because they want funds to get their platform set if they reach the soft cap I believe the success of the project will follow because they already had funding coming from their investors which will become the first supporters of their project.