First of its kind
EOS presale was finally announced here. There was a lot of surprises. ICO will happen on Ethereum platform and lasts for a year. Each day fix amount of EOS tokens will be distributed depending on the contribution amount. This is similar how the very first ICO in crypto space was happening - Bitshares X AGS allocation.
Bitshares was distributed to Protoshares (PTS) and Angelshares (AGS) holders. First was mined, the second was more sophisticated. Every day was allocated 10,000 new AGS in a virtual mining competition. This virtual shares was divided among those who donated that day. Participants were able to donate in BTC and PTS. Here is a link where bytemaster (aka @dan) for the first time explaining this https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=1631.0. It was remarkable, at the and of 2013 there was no notion of ICO, it was first of its kind, there was some controversy, but at the end of the day it was successful in funding Bitshares development!
What we can learn?
The AGS virtual mining event was lasting 200 days. From January 1st, 2014 till July 18th, 2014, but the Bitshares part was ended on February 28th.
Peek of donations was in the last days of ICO, PTS price was pumping, people getting the least share of AGS, but kept donating. Much wiser was to donate small portions in the beginning and middle of the allocation.
Source of the graph above. http://agsexplorer.com/ (scroll to the very end). Play it for yourself, observe and invest wisely in the upcoming EOS ICO.