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November 29 27 Comments latest by mike
I can’t think of a good title for a talk I’m giving next month (drawing material from this site about Barriers, The Myth of the Great Idea, etc).
Can you help?
Here are my 2 tentative titles:
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship:
How to Start a Company or Run a Project Better Than Anyone Else-or-
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How to Play the Game Better Than Anyone Else
Both of these are kinda lame. Do you have any ideas? I’ll give a prize to the person who makes the winning suggestion.
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Ye
November 29th, 2005
Plastic Bags and Secrets
Steve
November 29th, 2005
How about:
Personal entrepreneurship: 5 secrets to achieving your objectives.
or
Personal Entrepreneurship: 5 secrets to becoming a top competitor.
norman livla
November 29th, 2005
Personal entrepreneurship: 5 facts you need to know.
The/Your First 5 in the entrepreneurial ballgame.
5 forgotten facts to become a great entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur: Five Facts for a Fabulous Future
5 Secrets every Entrepreneur Must know.
Craig
November 29th, 2005
You could just say, "Personal Entrepeneurship: Doing Everything Better than Everyone Else"
I don't know your audience, though. Such an informal title could be a turn-off, or it could sound too corporate for a bunch of college students. If you want to dress it politely, you could just call it, "Being the Best".
But there's no real need to say "5 secrets of", in my opinion.
norman livla
November 29th, 2005
Entrepreneur: Five Secrets for Success.
Five Gems for the Personal entrepreneur.
Personal Entrepreneur: Five Secrets to have the edge.
Personal Entrepreneur: Five things you should never Forget.
Get the edge from your competitors with these Five Golden rules.
Good luck, hope you find my entries useful, too early to think
brandon
November 29th, 2005
How about:
Mastering Personal Entrepreneurship: The 5 steps you need to succeed
or
Mastering Personal Entrepreneurship: Taking your career/life to a new level
Steven Koszis
November 29th, 2005
I’m not sure what you mean by personal entrepreneurship. Can you explain the “personal” term in your proposed title?
Great blog! So, here’s a suggestion…
How to Start and Run a Perfect Company for You AND Your Customers: The 5 Secrets to Entrepreneurship
Best wishes on your speaking engagement.
Ramit Sethi
November 29th, 2005
Steven, I wrote a post all about what personal entrepreneurship is here.
David Johnston
November 29th, 2005
Don't "play" the game...change it!
Ian Ybarra
November 29th, 2005
Superstardom through Personal Entrepreneurship: 5 secrets you can’t learn from any college Buck sends you to
OR
5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship (the following are all subtitle
suggestions)
What so few top students do to also excel in their careers
What you need to know now to not get stuck after college
How to be better than the rest of the best
Simple ways to WOW people with your work
noah
November 29th, 2005
the 5 secrets i learned from noah kagan:)
Jennifer
November 29th, 2005
How the lack of a title won't cripple my speech.
RYAN BATTLES
November 29th, 2005
5 RULES OF PERSONAL ENTREPRENEURSH
Russ Thornton
November 29th, 2005
5 Answers To The Questions You Should Be Asking
5 New Solutions To The Same Old Problems (or Questions)
"5" -- The Keys to Entrepreneurial Breakthroughs
Jacobo
November 29th, 2005
I was looking the english equivalent for the spanish phrase: "manos a la obra", whose meaning is "let's start working" or "let's do it now".
It could be:
("manos a la obra"):
start achieving your goals right now.
Solomon Folks
November 29th, 2005
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship:
Play the Game of Business with an Edge
DUST!N
November 29th, 2005
The 5 "Rules" of Success:
How Personal Entrepreneurs Break Them All
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: Breaking Barriers and Setting Boundaries
The 5 Hurdles of Personal Entrepreneurship and Why They're Not Hurdles Afterall
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: Turning Hurdles Into Launchpads
Jennie
November 29th, 2005
Stop sabataging your success: Five Tools for Personal Entrepreneurship
jeff
November 29th, 2005
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: Kicking Butt in the 21st Century
norman
November 29th, 2005
Personal Entrepreneur: Five Foundations for Success.
Personal Entrepreneur: Five things your competition doesn't know.
Personal Entrepreneur: Five simple steps for success.
Personal Entrepreneur: Five secrets for your advantage.
Personal Entrepreneur: Five Secrets for Survival.
Personal Entrepreneur: Five Secrets for segregating the competition.
Personal Entrepreneur: Five Secrets....that you'll want to know.
Mr. Anonymous
November 29th, 2005
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How to Get Ahead by Wasting Your Time
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How to Ignore Bad Advice
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How Idiots Get Rich, and You Can Too
The 5 Secrets of Personal Entrepreneurship: How to Get Rich Without Being an Idiot
regular_reader
November 29th, 2005
I'm not sure exactly what your talk is about, so I'm only hazarding a guess here, but how about...
Obstacles to Successful Enterpreneurship; How they exist only in your mind
Daniel Burgin
November 29th, 2005
How about a Mel Brooks-ism, originally about Moses and the 20 (er, um) 10 Commandments. "I have these 10 keys to Entrepreneurship" - then drop 1 tablet of 2 which shatters..."I have these 5 keys to Entrepreneurship." Perfect - and funny is a good way to start a presentation.
norman livla
November 29th, 2005
here are my last hurah:
Personal Entrepreneur: The Rule of Five Truths
Personal Entrepreneur: The Five Founding Truths
Five Philosophy of the Personal Entrepreneur.
Dan Burgin’s idea is pretty neat too though.
Good Luck again.
Devin Reams
November 29th, 2005
Hi Ramit, I read through some of the suggestions and they’re all really great. I thought this might sound less ‘lame’:
Personal Entrepreneurship: The Secrets To Personal and Professional Success
Jesse Skinner
December 1st, 2005
A slight twist...
5 Secrets to Becoming the Best: Personal Entrepreneurship for Fun and Profit
mike
December 1st, 2005
“How To Stay Poor and Frustrated: 5 Secrets to Help You Avoid the Most Common Obstacles to Personal and Professional Growth”
You might want to shorten the title, but you see where I’m going.