Entrepreneur First

Today I will take an interview from EntrepreneurFirst. Because I applied for their Singapore cohort in 2022.

I want to note what their potential questions are.

They want to know what my edge is.

Preparation for Interview

Data and time: 1 pm in Japan, 21 Oct, 2021

Interviewer: Hou Sheng Poh at EntrepreneurFirst

Reference: Finding My Edge @EF

Potential Q&A

What is my Edge

• Unique knowledge
• Unique work
• Rare insights

Technical edge: having a deep experiences in tech area

• full-stack engineer in crypto related web based services
• quantitative engineer
• bet on crypto finance technologies
  • Cosmos hackathon in 2019
  • ETHGloblHackathon in 2021
  • Cerberus Research

Marketing edge: industry experience and rate insight

• long experiences working in crypto real business
• long experience working on international projects
• know their pain points and try to solve them by our services

Philosophy

• Pragmatism
• "Necessity is the mother of invention."

Motivation

• I want to update existing financial systems with crypto finance technologies

experience

• experience at Crypto Garage: structuring crypto derivatives as financial instrument on bitcoin side-chain

  • realized how existing financial systems are sucks. Dislike the business based on intentional information gap.
  • decided to bet on the development of crypto finance from a deep technical approach and skill.

• experience at Nuikind

  • met with my co-founder at Cosmos DeFi Hackathon in SF, 2019
  • as Full-stack Engineer
  • worked at a crypto startup in Japan, crypto staking business and managing farms

• experience at HATER

  • built the quantitative analyzing system from scratch
  • worked as option/future trading, quantitative analysis
  • suffered from the difficulties of international collaboration works
    • financial insecurity due to
      • volatile salary
      • irregular paycheck

• life in Japan while remote-working in a virtual crypto industory

  • mental issues
    • social bias against crypto developer and young women from Japanese elder financial guys
  • social issues
    • was almost used and abused by crypto illegal business guys (correction:2021.11.19)
    • In the reality, cryptocurrencies are used as the medium of speculative investment and/or tax "reduction"(evasion).

• experience at SBI Secrity Solutions

  • become much better at technical documantation in English
  • experienced PM works on a big financial company
  • built reliable relationships with JP and SG bankers

• experience at Cerberus

  • financial failure
    • blowed off my crypto asset due to the lack of proper collateral valuation management
    • give me the idea to build automated asset management
  • realized Japanese regulation risk against crypto industry
    • trying to get the chance to move to Singapore.