This week I spoke with a serial entrepreneur in Chicago. Now the co-founder of Evolution Capital Partners, Brendan Anderson cut his entrepreneurial teeth in 1995 at age 28 when he purchased a manufacturing business with a small set of customers. His first observation: running a business is not as easy as it seems. But he learned more than he’d bargained for from his customers: He began to delight in watching these individuals–a set of Polish tradesmen–come together over drinks of warm vodka to put together new deals. They’d take the facility of one contact, the resources of another, blend them, put in some additional capital and—voila—successful businesses were born.
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