Episode 44: Dave Balter - Co-Founder & CEO at Flipside Crypto

Welcome to Episode 44 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights in Boston and NYC! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Dave Balter, Co-Founder & CEO of Flipside Crypto. Dave is a serial entrepreneur having founded two companies in the Boston tech scene that have been acquired. BzzAgent was acquired by dunnhumby and then, Smarterer was acquired by Pluralsight, a company that went public back in May of this year and is aggressively growing their team in Boston. His current company, Flipside Crypto, is a venture backed startup that is providing indexes and investment vehicles for cryptocurrencies. Not only has Dave’s impact been felt as an entrepreneur, but he is also an investor and advocate for the Boston tech scene. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * The legendary Dave Balter tech prom - yes that did happen * The details behind BzzAgent, plus a fun story involving Jason Calacanis * Smarterer’s pivot that led to an acquisition * A simple description on cryptocurrency and blockchain, plus what Flipside Crypto is up to and how they are helping people build a diversified portfolio * How he got into angel investing, including being one of the first investors at Runkeeper * Plus, a lot more. Lastly, if you like the show, please remember to subscribe to and review us on iTunes, or your podcast player of choice!