{"id":360,"date":"2007-03-03T15:08:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T20:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2007\/03\/03\/the-walamu-story\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T15:08:32","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T20:08:32","slug":"the-walamu-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"The Walamu Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"www.rohailrizvi.com\">Rohail Rizvi<\/a> introduced me to a website he has been working on while in college: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walamu.com\/\">Walamu<\/a>. Walamu is posed to become a successful college marketplace with classifieds and textbook sales (local to universities). Rohail is a student at Rutgers and a member of a very neat young entrepreneur group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindpetals.com\/\">Mind Petals<\/a>. I liked his story enough to look into Walamu a bit more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\tFirst off, Walamu does not come across as YACTS (Yet Another Cheap Textbook Site). Walamu is structured more like a Craigslist for colleges. Although Rutgers is the only college on the site right now it seems to have become popular with the students. Oh, and go take a look at the site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walamu.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>. As of this writing, they&#8217;re offering a free night with a stripper to a lucky classifieds poster. Who else does that? Who else <em>has<\/em> done that? Wow.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdditionally, you look at the site and it looks professional, it looks clean, it seems functional. Most textbook and classified sites I&#8217;ve seen (including Craigslist) are <em>too<\/em> simple and <em>too<\/em> empty. Sure, you need a community and you need an easy-enough site to get to the point: exchanging of goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>\tBut, you look at this site and it looks great, it looks like a lot of time and resources have been put into it. Well, yes. But would you believe that one guy (named Rohail) is behind it <strong>all<\/strong>? The same Rohail who is still <a href=\"http:\/\/walamu.com\/blog\/?p=9\">going through college, eating Ramen, and having a hard time finding money to purchase textbooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\tI like what Rohail has done with Walamu; it&#8217;s the perfect entrepreneur story. <strong>He&#8217;s found a problem that he deeply understands and he has created a solution.<\/strong> I think a lot of people, including students, can look at this story and realize that, yes, I can create something. I can go out and <em>do<\/em> things no matter the limitations.<\/p>\n<p>\tPersonally, I wouldn&#8217;t create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com\/blog\/8-stupid-frat-boy-business-ideas\">YACTS-competitor<\/a> though. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohail Rizvi introduced me to a website he has been working on while in college: Walamu. Walamu is posed to become a successful college marketplace with classifieds and textbook sales (local to universities). Rohail is a student at Rutgers and a member of a very neat young entrepreneur group called Mind Petals. I liked his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}