If you're a new comer, don't invest in ICOs. Ico season is over actually, it is slowly coming with IEO (exchange offerings) however normal ICOs are not doing well. (I've invested in Lition, which did almost 2x but in the bullrun even very "scammy" projects would do 4x haha)
Buy something cheap (everything is very cheap right now) and wait, in my opinion. If you trust yourself, you can trade with some part of your money.
But ICO would be very bad, if you know nothing about it (how to select one, token economy, exchanges(lock-unlock issues) etc.