Playing poker and running a start-up are similar in some ways. Mostly, you have to be comfortable with ambiguity. If you’re the type who likes to very carefully weigh 99 percent of the data before you make a decision, you’re not cut out to run a start-up. At best, you’ll have 60 percent of the data. And you have to make a lot of your decisions based on intuition.

via The Way I Work: David Sacks, Yammer | Inc.com.