I don't think so. If the year ago even the bad ICO could gather a lot of money, then now we have a different situation - only the best ones survive. For instance, Spotcoin raised $14 Mil only for a pre-sale and one week of ICO. While good projects will be created - ICO will not die.

Investing in cryptocurrency has always been risky. But you can find a gem if you look good. I recommend you to have a look at Spotcoin - Georgian company that had a great success on pre-sale and now runs an ICO, it's backed by the local government and has huge potential.

Georgia is for sure one of the best countries for crypto development. For example, here is the news about the blockchain technologies support by Georgia's Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development: https://medium.com/spotcoin/georgias-economy-minister-joins-spotcoin-neo-in-blockchain-talks-c24e27fbba7f

It's great to see countries and the government that moving forward with technology development. It's also nice to see support from the people: Spotcoin's ICO runs right now and has great success.

I think the team is the most important gear in the ICO mechanism. The project with qualified professionals will success. For instance, Georgia-based company Spotcoin hit soft cap of $5 million even before the start of the public ICO. This became real with the coordinated work of the staff which in turn inspires the trust of the crypto community.

Collect as much information as possible about market behavior, learn from your own and others' mistakes and don't play with big investments. Start small and grow big.

I recommend avoiding these projects. This is a ridiculous requirement, the purpose of which is only the collection of information for sale to third parties.

It's skilled and experienced team around the project. I think the cryptocurrency can't be successful without strong developers and great chemistry between employees of all ranks.

Cryptocurrency and its technology have all the prerequisites to be adopted by the world economy. But the technology is still too raw and the process of development and implementation will take a long time.

If you follow all the safety recommendations, a crypto wallet is more secure in comparison with the bank where the safety of your money does not depend on you. But at the moment I'm not satisfied with the crypto volatility and I don't keep big sums here.

ICOs are losing popularity due to the drop in the market. Some tokens substantially losing its value right after exchange release and you should be careful with your investment.

I think scam ICOs also played a role in this market crash. Too many projects that do not fulfill their roadmap and whitepaper promises. They simply collected significant amounts of money, and in fact, did not realize those ideas.

This is a million dollar question. But the fact is that no one knows when this will end. The most persistent investors continue to hold their crypto and this gives a chance for a market's turn.

In any thing, even negative, you can find pros. In this case, OP is right, scammers "teach" us to be more vigilant and cautious which will help not only in crypto but in life in general.

I think NEO has not yet fully revealed its potential and can bring us some surprises in the future. It's for sure can compete with Ethereum as the main blockchain network for the ICOs.

It will all depend on the price of cryptocurrency. The ICO's popularity has been decreased drastically after the fall of the market. And in the same way, it can increase after the market grow.

It's a big opportunity in a technological way. Crypto has brought a lot of great technologies that will be used in the future. At the same time, it can be dangerous in a financial way. Many investors have lost large sums of money in pursuit of "easy profit".

Usually, I use icodrops-like sites for this. They have a list of the active and upcoming ICOs with the "Bounty" tags.  Or just search it in the Bounties (Altcoins) thread.

Sometimes the whitepaper is written by people whose goal is to attract the attention of the investors just by a beautiful spelling, and the company may not even fulfill its promises.

Of course, they are. Crypto-market has not the best conditions for the entry of investors. Investing in crypto-currencies is already risky, and the price drop does not make the situation better.