Fargo, North Dakota included in the 10 Great Places for Entrepreneurs to Retire

A jump in start-ups is going to be led by the baby boomers

Entrepreneurs never really retire. They move on to their next project. Just ask Linda Remeschatis, 60, a former prosecutor in Madison, Wis., who turned her passion for local food and art into a second career. In 1998, at age 50, Remeschatis left the public sector to launch her own E-commerce business, Wisconsinmade.com, an online food and gift store selling products made in her home state by local artisans. She now manages five employees and three regular consultants.

Since the business doesn’t have a physical storefront, most of the employees work remotely or on the ground floor of Remeschatis’s home, overlooking the deer and birds in her backyard. It took Remeschatis six years to turn a profit selling cheese, chocolate, and art online, and she still makes less money and puts in more hours than she did as an attorney, but she enjoys the work. "You don’t mind it as much because you are doing it for yourself and for your family and to grow business for our artisans," she says. "And we get to taste-test."

By Emily Brandon

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