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There you are, at the foot of a mountain wondering what you are going to do in the future.

You have ideas, thoughts, plans, aspirations, motivations, and dreams. You see the world as your playground; obstacles and oppositions are at a minimum. You are surrounded by people just like yourself who have similar interests and thoughts. You are in a constant state of a creativity flux. One day you meet an eccentric recluse with an idea of how to revolutionize the slow cooking movement in your hometown, the next you meet a cross country runner who practices 4 times a day, counts calories, believes warm-ups are sexy, and thinks of nothing more than the feeling she gets at mile 25.

The greatest thing about college is the fact that it is designed to nurture and develop. Design and nurture what you may ask? That is limitless, but often limited by the focus of the college or the imagination of the student.

Take it from me, once you graduate, your access to the university is severely limited.

The best time to pursue any type of entrepreneurial quest is while you are a student at a university. Do not spend your time hatching the “perfect” plan, instead, move your idea out the door as quickly as possible. Get your idea in front of faculty members. Find faculty that have an entrepreneurial background. Email your universities newspaper, radio station, tv station, or even their public relations department. A university is filled with people who can help you take an idea through to the launch of the end result.

Think about all the things you have going for you as a student with an idea:

1. Being in debt up to your eye balls has very few advantages, but one of them is that it affords you the time you would have otherwise spent on a dead-end job.
2. Every large university has everything a business needs to succeed.
3. You are paying to attend the university, so naturally the majority of faculty feel like they owe you something (if only a little).
4. An atmosphere that naturally fosters creativity even if it wasn’t designed for it.
5. Spectacular access to a brilliant pool of labor.
6. General lack of real-world responsibility.

Greg McAdoo spoke at the Startup School 2008 and gave a great analogy about surfers and startups. He said, and I am paraphrasing, that the greatest surfers in the world don’t make their own waves. They don’t go against the waves, they choose the right wave and ride it perfectly. And that is what a great founder has to do.

So my challenge to you is simple.

Find your huge wave and ride it with passion, conviction, and courage.

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