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A cooling housing market drove Florence Karp out of the mortgage business. Launching a Nigerian hot sauce, Afric, put Karp into business for herself.

Making It in Minnesota: Before becoming a food entrepreneur, Florence Karp worked as a teacher, a seamstress, a mortgage broker, and a life coach. Now she markets and sells her own line of traditional Nigerian sauces to Minnesota grocers and stores. Building the business has presented challenges, Karp says. “But if you are in love with something you’re doing, you don’t care.”

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