Startups, VCs and Social Capital

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Social Capital

In mature ecosystems like Silicon Valley, there is just so much entrepreneurial activity that it often becomes hard to distinguish signal from noise. In an emerging ecosystem, there is a different problem, perhaps too many fears and failures that prevent someone from recognizing a signal for what it is. Enter the role of social capital ie validation from someone else that what you are saying or doing has merit. As much as we may want our ideas or work to stand for themselves, the truth is most of us, most of the time will need help to advance our causes…....

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Amit Garg I have been in Silicon Valley for 20 years -- at Samsung NEXT Ventures, running my own startup (as of May 2019 a series D that has raised $120M and valued at $450M), at Norwest Ventures, and doing product and analytics at Google. My academic training is BS in computer science and MS in biomedical informatics, both from Stanford, and MBA from Harvard. I speak natively 3 languages, live carbon-neutral, am a 70.3 Ironman finisher, and have built a hospital in rural India serving 100,000 people.