Chase RobertsSoftware’s Manufacturing Revolution: Why I’m Joining NorthflankSoftware development today feels like an unfinished industrial revolution. During the industrial era, industrialists weren’t just inventing…Nov 11Nov 11
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USHelping founders master sales, with Evisort CEO Jerry TingJerry Ting is CEO of Evisort, a company he has scaled from zero to tens of millions of revenue. Here are his sales tips for founders.Jun 101Jun 101
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USFixing Kubernetes App Deployment Solves ‘Day 2' ProblemsIn a thoughtful post about “Kubernetes Day 2 Operations,” Justin Yue of Geodesic Capital highlights the tooling needed to streamline the…May 6May 6
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USData Council 2024: The future data stack is composable, and other hot takesI wrote this synopsis for the Vertex Ventures investment team as a debrief to last week’s Data Council conference. Here it is, unedited.Apr 23Apr 23
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USThree types of marketing content every founder needsFor technical startup founders, developing a content strategy can be a daunting task. The right content can help sales and marketing.Feb 8Feb 8
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USAn interview with a researcher behind MemGPT, the system enabling AI companions to have infinite…Chase Roberts of Vertex Ventures US interviews Charles Packer of UC Berkeley, coauthor of the MemGPT paper.Jan 17Jan 17
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USFundraising for Founders, from a CEO who raised $155MEvisort CEO Jerry Ting sits down with us to give his best tips for startup venture fundraising, after successfully raising $155 million.Jan 91Jan 91
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USA looming electricity shortage and other AI dinner-table gossipVertex Venture US recently hosted a dinner with top-flight AI researchers and practitioners. Here’s how the dinner-table conversation went.Dec 8, 2023Dec 8, 2023
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USLoRA: The Efficient Fine-Tuning for LLMs You Should KnowChase and Sandeep spoke with Edward Hu, Ph.D, the co-creator of LoRA — a popular large language model (LLM) fine-tuning technique.Dec 6, 2023Dec 6, 2023
Chase RobertsinVertex Ventures USRaising a Series A: Nailing the Fundraising NarrativeIt’s a new fundraising environment for early-stage founders. Well, newish. Here’s how to tell your story in a way that excites investors.Nov 22, 2023Nov 22, 2023