Investor surrounds self with good people

To hear Jon Telleen, owner of Telleen Enterprises, tell it, the hardest thing to investing successfully in commercial real estate is finding good partners.

Maybe he’s right, with Boulder County’s booming economy and sizzling real estate market offering plenty of opportunity to those willing to take a chance.

Of course the 50-year-old’s education from father J.B. Telleen, 76, former owner of J.B. Telleen Realty, didn’t hurt either.

“I just learned business at the dinner table. That’s where I cut my teeth,” Telleen said recently. “I grew up with…