Episode description

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

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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

Disclaimer here — this newsletter does not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD.

Contributors: Lex, Laurence, Matt, Farhad, Mike, Daniella

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