This week, the FundersClub community celebrates its 8th year anniversary. Explore the journey with our interactive 8-year infographic.

This week, the FundersClub community celebrates its 5th year anniversary. Explore the journey with our interactive 5-year infographic.

For engineers looking to draw insights from AI, it's best to remember the idiom, 'Garbage in, garbage out.' Experienced AI jockeys can spend as much as 80% of their time optimizing their data before building a machine learning model with it.

The biggest hurdle to those building AI applications—once techniques are understood—is finding the right data. We've talked with dozens of experts in the AI space who have offered their own tips to find, acquire and multiply data.

Workplace diversity is a complex issue. Our findings on it, gathered from nearly 100 U.S. tech startups, offer a unique view on how different factors may affect the gender diversity of a startup’s employees. Specifically, we’ve explored the gender diversity of U.S. technology startup founders and how that affects the gender diversity of the employees they hire.

Silicon Valley is a surprisingly clubby ecosystem. Getting funded or even acquired, in many cases, has more to do with whom you know than how good your product might be. FundersClub sees one of its core missions as opening up the opaque world of Silicon Valley to its founders, getting them connected to what is an antiquated system in many ways.

Employees at big companies aren't incentivized to take risks, even calculated ones. That's why General Mills has been whipped by a yogurt startup. It's a lesson that founders pitching to big companies should keep in mind.

For startups getting serious about building models and iterating, it can make sense to build a homebrewed AI box. The field of AI is a tinkerer's paradise right now.

The head of SEO at Atlassian compares stock prices of 24 public tech companies and their SEO profiles over time. Google Trends, it turns out, is more correlated with stock prices than is a company's SEO profile.

ESPN's model of ratcheting up subscriber fees to match the spiraling costs of content has been undermined by people opting out of cable subscriptions, and the ubiquity of sports-related content on the web. As the paradigm continues to change, there exists a clear opening for founders and investors to provide solutions.

Startups with women founders succeed at a higher rate, data show. On International Women’s Day, FC tapped some of its stalwart women founders for their inspirations and advice for others following them into tech.

Growing 14% a month is 5x a year. A rate of 21% a month doubles that to 10x. Investors should know the simple relationships between weekly, monthly growth rates.