by Brian Pillmore | Apr 28, 2023 | Brian's Blog
Here’s how. Step 1: Define what’s needed. An expert in a PR software that is brand new to me. Someone who can run it independently. Step 2: Define the search. I went into sales navigator and made a simple search: – Previously worked at specific PR company (the...
by Brian Pillmore | Apr 27, 2023 | Brian's Blog
It’s part of what sunk SVB. When you take a large loan from the bank, They expect you to do more business with them. For some banks it’s: We gave you a $1M loan for a building,Now we expect you to lease cars through us too. For SVB it meant: We just gave you a $5M...
by Brian Pillmore | Apr 24, 2023 | Brian's Blog
It was the best thing that could have happened to me. It was January 2020 and I had just left the bank I was working for at the time. I took a couple weeks off and then agreed to a project doing competitor research and commercial strategy for a friend who was CEO at a...
by Brian Pillmore | Apr 21, 2023 | Brian's Blog
I hired 2 of them. Visbanking was fairly new – just me and 1 other guy. I decided to work from Colombia for a month with my family there as a working vacation. Out of nowhere, the business suddenly took off. We did more in that 1 month than the rest of company...
by Brian Pillmore | Apr 17, 2023 | Brian's Blog
I learned that within DAYS of entering the banking world. It was late 2006 and I had joined GE’s ‘Pilot Project’ to try out for their Corporate Audit Staff. The entire goal was to push you out of your comfort zone. I had only been an engineer at that point, So...
by Brian Pillmore | Apr 14, 2023 | Brian's Blog
But banks don’t play that game. If they are even going to THINK about giving you a loan, it’s because: – You ARE profitable- You HAVE BEEN consistently profitable- You likely WILL BE profitable in the future- And you are SUBSTANTIALLY profitable with good...
