Best Startup
A QUICK INTRODUCTION ABOUT WHAT YOUR COMPANY DOES/YOUR VALUES/MISSION.
Blink is an app that helps university students to budget through personalised financial advice powered by AI, earn money from cashback and build their credit score that can use all around Europe
TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF?
I am a business graduate from Cardiff University. Lack of budgeting, zero knowledge about credit score and stress about money. All of these are problems I had myself when I was in university, and I realized I wasn’t the only one. When I graduated from university, I did some research and found that over 80% of students in the UK worry about having money at the end of the month. Approximately half of these students reported that stress affected their grades or performance. Blink was started because I decided this needed to change. Your finances in the blink of an eye 😉
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME A YEAR OR TWO, WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF?
The best way to learn is by doing while reading not just reading. Whatever you think doing like starting a business or anything else just do it!
WHAT PROBLEM DOES YOUR BUSINESS SOLVE?
University students have to manage their money for the first time and is very difficult and damaging for more of them
WHAT IS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND YOUR BUSINESS?
As I said my own personal problems as a student made me wanna solve this for all students in the UK because uni life needs to be full of fun not full of stress
WHAT IS YOUR MAGIC SAUCE?
Ingredients are pure and simple 40% passion 40% action 20% open-minded and open to criticism. You just mix them and voila!
WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR THE NEXT 5 YEARS? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE?
I want blink to be used by over a million students. I want blink to become an obvious answer for any student stressed about money. After that my next target is to start a venture studio for creation of many start ups
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE YOU’VE FACED SO FAR?
When you are an entrepreneur you realize that big challenges is not a cool story of the past but your daily job! but that’s the half fun of it 🙂
HOW DO PEOPLE GET INVOLVED/BUY INTO YOUR VISION?
We want to partner with many UK fintechs to distribute a super financial app for students. but most importantly we want students to register to our waiting list here https://pages.viral-loops.com/blink-app-waiting-list
