# Travel

Hanging Out with Dale Partridge of StartupCamp this Weekend

On Saturday a few coworkers and I drove to Bend, OR to meet and hang out with Dale Partridge, his wife and his beautiful 15 month old daughter. Dale is a long time social entrepreneur. He is the founder of StartupCamp.co...

April 7, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finances

Our Bank Balance Now & Income + Spending Projections for 2015

As I promised in my previous blog post, I’m sharing our budget and financial projections for our startup Finic for this year. As you saw in the screenshot from the previous post, on April 1, 2015 our bank balance was $1,...

April 3, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finances

Today I’m going to invest $1M into Finic, Inc.

Today, I’ll open up about money, and why I am going to invest $1M into Finic, Inc. The reason I started this blog is to be 100% transparent with my readers about every little detail behind my business: money, hirin...

April 1, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finic News

Finally, the eighteen of us have moved to a new office.

About half a year ago, when we had around ten office employees, we began thinking about moving to a new office. Our old office could only house a maximum of fifteen people. We wanted to relocate to either Portland, OR or...

March 25, 2015 by vitaliy

# Advice and Experiences

The importance of proper equipment and services

Story: Six years ago, I moved to Portland, Oregon from Toronto, Canada. I will remember that move more than all the others because I drove 3,200 miles on my minivan with my wife, two small children, and my dad, along wit...

March 24, 2015 by vitaliy

# Advice and Experiences, Finic News

The fear of transparency

Do you think I’m fearless? I’m actually not. Maybe some of you are wondering why I’m going to share an abundant amount of information about what we do. I know I’m not required to do this. I’m doing this because I a...

March 23, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finic News

Startup Labs First post – introduction

I never thought I would create a startup involving manufacturing. Over the last five years, I was purely involved in online businesses. As a serial entrepreneur, I generated a plethora of ideas. I had a list of more than...

March 20, 2015 by vitaliy