Jinyoung Park

October 17, 2014

Silicon Valley Experience : Working and Living With Startup Entrepreneurs

I spent my summer in California working for an early stage bitcoin startup, 37coins, as a community and content manager. From May to August, I was able to observe very early stages of the startup from participating in a business incubator program to seed fund raising. On top of that, I lived with three co-founders of the startup along with other bitcoin entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, in a 'hacker house' in San Jose, and 'bitcoin startup house' in San Francisco. This allowed me to be in the part of the community of tech entrepreneurs, especially bitcoin industry in the Valley. Besides observation of tech startup culture in the Valley, I'd like to present challenges and lessons that changed my career outlook and myself.