The stories of 3 Baby boomers and a Mompreneur | Jan 16-22

Boomer couple take big steps

Couple ponders the options open to them in retirement after working for themselves for so many years. Now that retirement is on the horizon, they’re asking all the big questions.

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Retail: The genius of Dollarama

At 8:30 on a December morning, after a damp snowfall had turned the streets of Montreal slushy and unpleasant, Larry Rossy arrived at the downtown location of his next Dollarama to consider toilet placement. The founder and chief executive of Canada’s largest dollar-store chain, Rossy, who is 67, still worries about banal details.

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Mom + Entrepreneur = Mompreneur

The development of new web tools has made it increasingly attractive for mothers to work from home on hours that fit their schedules. “The term mompreneur was coined almost two decades ago so it’s not a brand new idea, but what’s happening is that there’s growing recognition that there’s more of us,’ says Ms. Schultz, the mother of three young children and founder of Entrepreneurial Moms International (www.entrepreneurialmoms.org), an online destination for other mothers running small businesses.

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