Play your startup like a poker hand; fold often; but when you have a great hand, go all in As the daughter of a poker player, this advice to entrepreneurs definitely hits home.  In this segment of Lessons Learned, Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, the largest social gaming company and publisher of the popular Texas Hold’Em poker game on social networks, shares his advice to entrepreneurs. Pincus has raised $39 million in funding for Zynga to date. In the past, he co-founded Tribe, one of the first social networks having launched in 2003, which was sold to Cisco Systems. He also founded software company SupportSoft, which went public during the Internet heyday. The bottom line from Pincus is, to borrow from the great Kenny Rogers, "Know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em." 1 - Pick your macro first. ...   [ Read more ]