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

It can be advantageous to give employees the freedom to work from home occasionally, but it's something that works best when there are clear expectations and guidelines. Here's our guide on the subject.

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.

Learn all about board of directors. Why do boards of directors exist? How do they work in public companies vs startups? What should founders think about when dealing with them?

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.

Hiring the right engineers is critical for any technology company. Holding on to them, though, is a mission of equal importance. Limit turnover in your technical crew by putting in place these best practices.

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.

Jerrod and Kevin discuss the basic tips and tricks to raising a round of financing