Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart, the place where I do deep interviews with entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.
Now, imagine this. Imagine you run a business and a guy comes up to you and tells you that his company could build better partnerships than you could, and his company could get more sales than your team could, and that you should hire his firm to do all that for you. What would you do?
Well, that’s pretty much the business model that today’s guest used to launch this company. Freddie Achom is the founder of City Business Partners. He launched that company in 1997 as a business development agency and sold it three years later. I invited him here to talk about how he built and sold that company, and to talk about his current business, Rosemont Capital Partners. It’s an early stage venture capital firm.
And this whole...