Just do what I did, play poker for a living for 5 or 6 years first. Then compared to that, a startup is "doing something with your life".
Just goes to show how the whole world isn't technical.
There's a huge digital divide among poker pros. Most tend to either be younger guys like me who use computers as a tool to improve our game (ICM Calculators, equity calcs, stat tracking, etc.) and the old road-gambler types who still think poker is just about reading people. Of course poker is such a mathematical game that the second group is at a tremendous disadvantage, except for the few who've adapted.