{"675520":{"#nid":"675520","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The FinTech Gap: Dolfin Solutions Rises ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDuring the school year and the summer, Georgia Tech students can incorporate entrepreneurship into their college experience through courses, workshops, special events, and even a startup accelerator. CREATE-X invites you to delve into the journeys of our top achievers, this time focusing on the Spring 2024 I2P Showcase first-place winners:\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EDolfin Solutions\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarianna Cao, James Gao, and Jaeheon Shim, first-year computer science majors, are the founders of Dolfin Solutions, a personal financial management platform that promises a unified solution to budgeting, transaction management, and expense tracking, among other personal finance tasks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat challenges did you have in I2P, and how did you work through them?\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe were really lucky to get an excellent mentor, Aaron Hillegass. He has a lot of experience in the industry as a startup founder himself, and he gave us a lot of help, both technical as well as business, throughout the process. That helped us make better decisions,\u201d Gao said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think the biggest challenge was, I had done projects in the past by myself, writing the full stack, but working together, communicating the requirements, and integrating everyone\u0027s different code at the end was a little bit of a logistical struggle,\u201d Shim said. \u201cBut we managed to figure it out.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat advice do you have for students interested in I2P or entrepreneurship in general?\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGo for it. It\u0027s a three-credit course, so it counts toward your junior capstone as well. You get $500. Now is the perfect time to start because you don\u0027t have much to lose. If you\u0027re doing I2P and your company fails, you still have four years of college; you can still pursue a traditional path. It\u0027s a little risk but a lot to gain,\u201d Shim said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEven if you pivot or change your idea, it\u0027s important to believe in what you started,\u201d said Cao. \u201cIf you don\u0027t believe in your app, then nobody else does. Right now, you have all of the friends, mentors, professors, and the right resources, and money is not an issue. It\u0027s a good opportunity for you to work on it on the side, and maybe it could turn into something.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EWhat\u2019s Next?\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re going to build for the iOS and Android platforms, and then we\u0027re going to deploy hopefully by the end of summer,\u201d Shim said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you\u2019re a student interested in building your own product for college credit,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/make\/idea-to-prototype\u0022\u003Eapply for I2P\u003C\/a\u003E. And join us for Demo Day, Aug. 29, at 5 p.m., in the Georgia Tech Exhibition Hall to see new CREATE-X founders launch products in a variety of industries. Tickets are free but limited.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/gt-demo-day-tickets-888408793617?aff=WebInfoPage\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERegister today\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to secure your spot.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Spring 2024 I2P Showcase winners share their entrepreneurship experience during I2P. Founded by first-year computer science majors Marianna Cao, James Gao, and Jaeheon Shim, Dolfin Solutions is a personal financial management platform. 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