Golden Walrus

University

We have to re-understand the university. People have gone crazy. Everyone has forgotten what a university is for.

What use is the university? As far as I’m concerned, university is for two things: to learn and to make friends. These are two extremely important things and both have the same weight.

Learning is being able to do new things. If you are not able to do something new, you have not learned. Perhaps you have understood it, or you think you have understood it, but understanding is useless if it does not enable you to do.

Making friends is expanding your social horizons. Your personality adapts when you are with your parents or your grandparents, or your girlfriend or your friends. Because personality only makes sense when you relate to others. Making new friends means inhabiting new psychological environments.

This book is about starting businesses in college, but you’ll find that a lot of it is about learning and making friends. Because that is the true value of the university.

Learning is being capable of new things. Making friends is expanding your social horizons.

Message to the Reader

Correct me if I’m wrong: what you lack are not ideas, you always have many ideas. The problem is that you have so many ideas and you see so many possibilities in your head that you sometimes get all excited; but later you get depressed.

The problem is that you don’t have a method. You don’t have an order. You don’t have the recipe.

If you are at university and want to lead a movement, materialize a project or create a company, the Golden Walrus is the best method. It is a series of steps to create and lead university entrepreneurial teams, the result of which is an extraordinary learning process and, in many cases, the creation of companies.

What is Golden Walrus?

Golden Walrus is designed in a cyclical way, adapted to the reality of a university student. The university academic year is also a cycle that is repeated every year: classes start in September/October, and in June students have vacations.

The first step is to discover Golden Walrus. Then you must understand the challenge that is presented to you. Then you will have to make a decision: to do it or not to do it. Once you do that, start the action:

1. Create a founding team - Convince a small number of people to join you
2. Attract clients - Get a space and register a junior company
3. Open Call - When ready, organize an event to recruit new members in June
4. Lead the new team - In September, lead the team and achieve things you never thought were possible

The 6 Steps

1. Understand what it means to be a founder and decide to do it
2. Create a founding team
3. Get your first clients
4. Open call: recruit new members
5. Lead the new team
6. Graduate and repeat