📈John Barnes

Pendleton Street Advisors is a financial advisory firm to business owners. Founded in 2013, the firm’s areas of expertise are valuation consulting, succession planning, personal financial planning, mergers and acquisitions advice, and investment management. We specialize in helping our clients work through make-or-break financial issues in their company that have spillover effects into their personal finances.

President & CEO

John Barnes

It’s a long way, but I wouldn’t miss seeing these friends for anything. 

Leaving today for South Sudan 🇸🇸 with Empower One. 

We go to teach, learn, and have fun bringing the good news of the Gospel to a place that is starving for peace, and hopeful for transformation that starts on the inside and works its way outward.

Also thankful for the blessing of a GREAT team at home that allows me to pursue these missions.

Helping business owners get more from their largest investment | CEO at Pendleton Street Business Advisors

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This is why no one will want to watch robots play sports

This was more than a win.

Best use of AI so far for my firm?

Not in writing.

Not in search.

Not in research.

It's in illustration. A complete and total gamechanger. 

Imagine taking a complex Estate planning document provided by a client, and after anonymizing it--uploading it to ask AI to "illustrate" the provisions, and flow of assets in some type of diagram. Mind-blowing, and super helpful to the client.

Imagine taking anonymized financial statements and asking it to illustrate money flow in a blowout diagram that shows the magnitude of certain revenues and expenses.

We're loving the illustrative uses of AI to make more impactful *visuals* that help out clients have a deeper understanding of their own "stuff".

I can't wait to see what else we can come up with.

Made a cold call today. Fr

Disaster rating: 11/10—but I learned two things:

1. Have fun. (I had fun 😉)

2. If you’re a business using an offshored VA for call reception, don’t cheap out and use a service where they sound like they’re talking inside the Holland Tunnel. 😊 
 (maybe they were 🤷🏼‍♂️)

Owners of asset-intensive and capital-intensive businesses need to fall madly in love with reading and understanding and tracking the Balance Sheet of their company.

The Balance Sheet tells the true story of the financial health in your business. Those big revenue numbers on your Income Statement? They are fun to read, but dangerously deceptive.

“I just reinvest everything back into the company.”

I think this is one of the most irresponsible things I hear business owners say:

Cool.
For how long?
And to what end?

Reinvestment without a personal financial framework isn’t discipline.
It’s avoidance dressed up as modesty.

Here’s what actually happens:
The business grows.
The owner’s lifestyle stays frozen in 2014.
Every future reward becomes “next year”.

At some point, reinvestment may not be accretive, and it's probably causing some other stuff to break:
You’re creating wealth… but probably not much of a life.

I think this is just as true for single person as it is for business owners with a spouse and children. 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 

A real financial strategy draws a line:

This is what the business needs to grow. 📈 
This is what the owner needs to stay motivated, solvent, and sane. 🤩 

If your only win condition is "I'll get around to it,”
you may feel like you're building a company — you’re deferring your life.

The best operators I know don’t starve themselves for optional upside.

They fight for parallel progress.
They work parallel plans for the progress on both sides of the line.

Business wins. 😘 
Owner wins. 🤑 

Both stay in the game. 🤠

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

Partner and Information Privacy Professional

Adams and Reese LLP

Partner and CIPP-US

Ellis, Lawhorne, and Sims

Attorney

AV© Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell for Administrative Law, Litigation, and Regulatory Law. 

Administrative and Regulatory Law, Privacy Law and Information Technology, Securities, Public Utilities, Environmental Law and Land Use Litigation, and Class Action Litigation.

Privacy Law and Information Security

Jack has received the designation as a Certified Information Privacy Professional from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.  Address privacy and security compliance and strategy for financial institutions, telecommunications providers, and other businesses.  Advise on the retention, collection, management, and production of electronically stored information. Assist  with information security breach response and provide advice on how to implement processes that prevent and detect breaches.

Regulatory and Tax Disputes- Litigate before the S.C. Administrative Law Court and state and local government entities; including local and state tax cases, certificate of need (CON) applications, procurement, environmental permitting cases, disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) applications, and alcohol licensing.

Representation in connection with securities investigations conducted by the Securities Division of the S.C. Attorney General.

Representation in FINRA arbitrations.

Advise on exempt offerings and private placements.

Energy and Utilities

Represent public utilities before the S.C. Public Service Commission, and in other litigation and regulatory matters.

Appellate Advocacy before the S.C. Court of Appeals and the S.C. Supreme Court.

Business Litigation

Representation in state, federal, and multi-district class action litigation, and in state and federal court commercial litigation matters.

Zoning and Land Use

Assist developers, telecommunications companies and property owners in obtaining zoning and land use approvals, and addressing environmental permitting, compliance, remediation, and enforcement matters.

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