Chapter 8. White Paper, Website, and Team
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You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.
There are lots of ingredients that go into a nicely baked ICO, but arguably the most important are the white paper, the website, and the team. The white paper has continued to evolve from a very academic-style paper, to in some cases a marketing brochure, but regardless of its form, it continues to be, for better or worse, the standard "must-have" document that all ICOs need to produce.
A white paper communicates a lot of things, but the main concept is an idea. The next step is to create a website because it is almost inconceivable in this day and age for a business or brand of any sort not to have an online presence. A website is also used to collect the funds for the ICO.
Once visitors land on an ICO's website, one of the most popular pages to browse is the "team" page or "about us." Who are the people behind this idea? Are they...