Advice to Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Play Poker

January 18, 2008

Zach Coelius came to San Francisco at age 25, as a Minnesota native and Silicon Valley outsider. Within a month he crashed the high-profile Demo conference and charmed his way into a top-secret poker game among venture capitalists, where he won a thousand dollars in seed funding for a then-nonexistent company.

By Betsy Schiffman

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