Host: Xiaochen Zhang, Founder and CEO of FinTech4Good
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmyidea/
Website: www.fintech4good.co,
Email: info@fintech4good.co

About Brad Bulent Yasar
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, KrowdMentor
Brad is an entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and advisor who has started and bootstrapped several companies from inception to maturity over the past 20 years. Brad is currently the co-founder and Managing Partner of Krowd Mentor, a strategic crowdfunding advisory firm focusing on ICOs, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and token powered organizations.

As the co-founder for Blockchain Investors Consortium (BIC) with over $2 Billion dollars allocated to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects and has access to extensive dealflow and experience analyzing disruptive technologies, Brad has participated in dozens successful crowd sales, which have raised over $500 million from 10,000s of investors in 12 months.

About KrowdMentor
KrowdMentor is a strategic investment and advisory firm empowering blockchain investors, funds, startups and entrepreneurs to reach their liquidity goals. It helps founders design, launch and scale their blockchain ventures and it helps investors find the right Initial Coin Offering (ICO) investments for their portfolios.

Interview Questions
Q1: Share two of your organizations?
Q2: From the mentor side, what’s the bigger pool that you selected the 50 organizations that you working with?
Q3: According to some studies and use data that 90% of ICOs are scams. What’s your assessment of the quality of ICOs?
Q4: As an angel investor/ICO investor, are there any difference between a traditional VC/angel investor and an ICO investor?
Q5: In traditional investment, if you are a startup without a product, it’s impossible for you to get a huge amount of investment. But in ICO, we have seen quite a lot cases that before product launch they already have 20M/30M value. From traditional investors, no one will do an evaluation in that manner. For you as an investor, is it a good thing or bad thing?
Q6: You have seen a lot of ICOs and blockchain companies. If people ask you which top ICOs or top blockchain companies have the potential to be the next unicorns. Do you have a small list or a few examples to share?
Q7: So you just mentioned some criteria for you to make your investment decision. Are you still looking at the team, potential business impact? Are you using the same philosophy or different strategies in choosing different deals?
Q8: Now when we see a lot of ICOs are divided into two phases: pre-ICO/pre-sale, and then ICO. Investors who participate in the pre-sale get much better terms and lots of discounts (some discounts even go to 90%). For the later crowd participates who would not get those discounts, some people would think the decision to have these discounts is not a good term for later participants. What’s your opinion?
Q9: What’s your view about SAFT?
Q10: Why did you put all the investors in your second organization? Why did investors want to come together?