How to Finish What You Start

I’ve met many smart, talented and capable people in my life. When I worked in construction, I remember working with a guy who had two computer science degrees but couldn’t get a job for some reason. It seemed odd t...

May 20, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finances

Why Do We Spend So Much Money Pre-Revenue?

I recently wrote a blog post titled Why We Spent $172,298 and Only Made $45 and got a ton of messages, responses and comments, such as this one below: Many of my close friends, acquaintances and blog subscribers do not u...

May 13, 2015 by vitaliy

# Finances

116 Days Left and $786,426.44 to Go

What do 116 days left mean? It’s about four months, a little less. What’s $786K? It’s a pretty nice house in Portland. It’s three Ferraris or two Rolls-Royces. I recently looked at our bank account and made a simple calc...

May 5, 2015 by vitaliy

# Advice and Experiences

5 Daily Habits Which Increased My Productivity by 2X

This blog is about complete transparency of every little detail behind my business and work life in general. I’ll start this post with a personal confession: I’m extremely hardworking, but I am not very produ...

April 24, 2015 by vitaliy

# Giveaway

I am Giving Away Three 20×30 Canvas Prints

I am giving away three 20×30 (or similar size) canvas prints to my readers. Each print is worth $120. Today is my 25th day blogging, and I’m pumped to have interested readers already. I want to say thank you to my f...

April 13, 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