Doing Business in Haiti - What is your Experience?

You know something? As I talk to some people doing business in Haiti I am getting a different kind of warning... Scary almost... Many people start the conversation with: "Hein! Ou vle fe bisnis an Haiti? Ou granmoun? Fo-w mete granmoun sou ou wi..." Are you doing business in Haiti? Are thinking about it? What's your experience?

The other countries I've been to, you can rent a place, start a business, and the success and failure of the business depends on your experience as a business person and nothing else...

At home, in Haiti, I am getting the impression that there is another factor... The one people don't like to talk about... If you're Haitian you know what I am talking about.

There is an unspoken fear factor that makes people quit before they even get started.

I understand that many people are afraid of everything and, in Haiti, it is so easy to blame the unknown that you are almost guaranteed to fail in any business if you are the kind of person who believes in the Boogeyman and you dare to try.

But you know what's funny, there businesses, big and small, all over the country. Either these business man and women are not afraid or... "Yo Granmoun" as the average Haitian will say...

What do you think about this?

What advice can you give to a young man or woman in Haiti who is so afraid to do start a business fearing that the competition will eat them alive?

What is your ezperience in doing business in Haiti?

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Randy Chabot says...

I have a contact. Call me in the US at more »

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Tacchini says...

Hi, my name is Tacchini, Im a 20 years old student in college studying Fashion Merchandising. I was born and raised in Pettion-Ville. I moved in more »

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Woolly Jean says...

How much is it to start a money gram or a western union in haiti? I already have a place I could rent $2,000 a year. Konbre kob lap ye pou more »

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Hans says...

Mwen vle Konnen si mwen ovre a laundromat nan petionvile eske sa ap fe more »

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Mark says...

I have been trying to do business in Haiti for some months now. I have contacted the Embassy in USA but I have been given any contact in Haiti more »

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Magalie From Thecaribbean says...

I don't have (yet) any experience in Haiti but i'm an entrepreneur almost since I was born and I don't know any better sensation than more »

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William Jackson says...

I would love to come to Haiti and teach a few classes to the high school students on Social Media, STEAM careers, Marketing and Branding. There more »

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Ernst Molin says...

This image is not HAITI but the mere critic or false evidence of a few. Thus, it can not be part of any portrait from the course of doing more »

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Marie Felix says...

Mwen te guin mari'm ki mouri isit nan USA, mwen ak li nou te bati yon kay nan santo 25. li te mete yon frè'l yo te deporte nan kay more »

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Patrick Princivil says...

Ah ban-m bay opinion-m nan lang manman-m ak papa-m té fè-m nan. Diaspora ki gen lajan yo, nou pè fè biznis an Haïti more »

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