# PICR

More Than 20,000 Signups, and We Haven’t Even Launched

How It All Started A little over four months ago, when we decided to make a big pivot from Finic to PICR, we didn’t fully understand what was in store for us. At that time, I could barely imagine how our product would wo...

November 11, 2015 by vitaliy

# PICR, Uncategorized

It’s Not about the Money: My Take on Getting Outside Investment

My first thought at the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey was that I needed to find an investor to fund my ideas from concept to reality. Only later did I come to understand that capital investment in no way guaran...

October 21, 2015 by vitaliy

# PICR

Hypothesis of the Four-day Work Week at PICR

A few months ago, I started getting dissatisfied with the status quo. I wanted change. As CEO, I wanted our company to be more productive and continue its growth. I wanted to use my time more effectively. Our company cul...

October 8, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finic News

Reality of Blogging Every Week

When I started blogging about Finic, I told myself that I would regularly blog. At some point, I even wanted to blog every day to be completely transparent about our startup progress. I kicked off this commitment with my...

July 1, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finic News

Finic Update: We Have Less Than $500K Left and Nothing to Say for Ourselves

There are moments in life when you have a ton going on and absolutely nothing to say. This is the case with Finic right now. There are so many thoughts, ideas, and hypotheses that we are experimenting with that our compa...

June 24, 2015 by vitaliy

# Advice and Experiences

Why My Wife and Kids Increase My Chance of Success

Do you remember a particular moment in your life when you felt truly happy? I’m talking about the happiest moment of your entire life. Does anything come to mind? You can probably guess what my happiest moments are, give...

June 17, 2015 by vitaliy

# Advice and Experiences

Stop Sharing Your Successes, Start Sharing Your Failures

Imagine if we list each person in an Excel spreadsheet with two columns, one column with their name and the other with every mistake they made throughout their lifetime. I’ll bet you that if you sort out this spreadsheet...

June 10, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finances

Another Month Behind: Financial Report for May

Exactly one month ago, I published a post titled “116 Days Left and $786,426.44 to Go”. As I write this post, we have 85 days left till our money for Finic is out. We spent a total of $169,864 in May (a bit less than in...

June 5, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finic News

Here is Our New Business Model

It took a tremendous amount of work to come up with our new business model that I am about to share with you. I ask that you spend 15 minutes, carefully reading this blog post and leave your feedback in the comments sect...

June 3, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finic News, Giveaway

Why We Just Launched “Get a Free Print” Experiment Here in Portland

In previous blog posts I promised I’ll share the new business model we came up with, I promise that the post with that content is ready, and I’ll publish it very soon. In this post, I’ll tease you a little by...

May 26, 2015 by vitaliy