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Video: Confessions of a serial entrepreneur

…good business? It's all in the cards

Tags: entrepreneur, learning, video, game

By BNET.com Staff

Published: 25 January 2008 15:39 GMT

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In the book Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur Stuart Skorman recounts the ups and downs of his high-stakes career. Skorman launched the online video store Reel.com in 1997 and sold it three years later for $100m - but his online learning site Hungryminds.com bombed. More recently he made a comeback with Elephant Pharmacy. In this video, Skorman takes to the card table to show how business can be played like a game of poker.

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