The psychology of entrepreneurship and reimagining collaboration behind Web3 analytics, with Flipside Crypto CEO Dave Balter

Lex chats with Dave Balter about the complexities of building data products on the blockchain and the importance of understanding human relationships and reality when building startups. They also discuss Flipside Crypto – a platform that builds business intelligence via a suite of analytics tools that provide insights into user behaviors, developer activities, and financial health, to crypto organizations – and MetricsDAO – a community of Web3 data analysts who provide blockchain projects with on-demand data insights and tooling. Additionally, they touch on replacing Excel with ChatGPT and on-chain smart contract data, and how to evaluate Web3 projects, as well as the future of how the value chain stacks on top of data and analytics to actually drive decisions and potentially drive automated decisions MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION Flipside Crypto's website: https://bit.ly/3KhgCPT MetricDAO's website: https://bit.ly/3MqYOES Dave's LinkedIn profile: https://bit.ly/43iT5qK Dave's Twitter profile: https://bit.ly/3zE4rYv Topics: crypto, blockchain, analytics, data, AI, DAO, decentralized autonomous organizations Companies: MetricsDAO, Flipside, Flipside crypto, ChatGPT, Excel ABOUT THE FINTECH BLUEPRINT 🔥Subscribe to the Fintech Blueprint newsletter to stay at the forefront of Fintech and DeFi: https://bit.ly/3hyhlC2 🤝 Partner with Fintech Blueprint through sponsorships: https://bit.ly/3UZllsV 👉 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LexSokolin TIMESTAMPS 1’23”: Dave’s foundational experiences & identifying some key threads that were formative to his experience 9’01”: The two elements that make startups difficult in general 13’22”: Flipside crypto: what it is, how it started, and how it all came together from a technical standpoint 16’46”: How difficult it is to collect high quality data in order to be successful and what the problems are along the way 22’43”: The importance of data and its supporting infrastructure is to Flipside and what the most repeatable use cases are in the market 26’01”: Segmenting out and positioning relative the competition such as: Coinmarketcap, Nansen, Messari, Glassnode, and Dune 28’30”: MetricsDAO: what it is, who is in it, and what the tokenomics are 32’06”: Replacing Excel with ChatGPT and on-chain smart contract data, and how to evaluate Web3 projects 35’21”: The vectors of growth for the protocol and the DAO, and examples of analytics that really made a difference 40’55”: The future of how the value chain stacks on top of data and analytics to actually drive decisions and potentially drive automated decisions 42’40”: The channels used to connect with Dave & learn more about Flipside crypto and MetricsDAO