Recently, I traveled to Dubai to deliver an evening keynote to an audience of small to medium size enterprises they call SME's. They asked me to do a short 15-20 minute talk and answer 3 questions based on my 9 years of experience coaching entrepreneurs. This is a short video with those answers. This is not based on scientific fact, but more on personal experience.

Use stories, analogies, and metaphors to make your point, especially when someone does not understand you or when they are confused.

Who are you? What do you do? Why should I care? These are some of the questions people have on their mind when listening to you talk about your business, product, or service.

Failure is a way to get stronger. When you look closely as examples of failure, you can learn a lot about how to succeed. There is even a conference going around the globe called Failcon!

Here's a brief presentation to learn an effective way to tell someone what your company does in one sentence. In the last 10 minutes, you get to watch several people come up to the front of the room and try out the techniques they learned in this talk.

An interview with me that includes various tips for pitching.

Here is video where Scott Case and I gave tips for pitching angel investors in a Wall Street Journal interview. Then, we have 3 startups pitch to us live to receive feedback and coaching from Scott and me.

Here are some tips on how to stand out at demo day and the top three mistakes that people make at demo day, plus a few words to Asia entrepreneurs. This video was shot and edited by at Stanford University by Snow from ColorfulYou, a student from TIP, NTU.