MobiHaiti: "Diaspora NeTraders"
Port-au-Prince, HaitiPort-au-Prince, Haiti
Year Founded:
Project Stage:
2014
Organization type:
for profit
Idea
Budget:
$100,000 - $250,000
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
MobiHaiti is into the idea-stage step but the example about the potential of employment about our Diaspora-buying-candy Platform is real.
During 2 months : March-April 2014, I was asked to organize an entrepreneurship seminar for 34 young people for JMOVE, a youth club constituted by low-revenues family people but I noted this observation :
a) only 3 out of 34, so less than 10%, have a regular work.
b) But 100% of the 6 groups were able to present in the final-expose day their Start-up Business Plan : so a sustainable traditional confectionery
mamba (Group 1 : rated average), "Tablet pistach" (Group 2 : the most well-presented), "cremas"...
A few weeks after, I wonder myself : why not offer them & others an ex nihilo market ?
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.
1)
2013 U$ amount of agricultural exported products : 25 millions
2015 projected " '' '' '' '' : 26,5 millions
2)
2014 percentage of agricultural family in poverty : more than 65%, according to Prof. Kesner Pharel, Radio Metropole economist
2015 projection : 10% less
3)
number of Haitian immigrants in NY-NJ : more than 1 Million (according to geographer Georges Anglade)
Currently less than 10% of diaspora Haitian houses eat "Alma Mater" while they are in the Capital of the Neteconomy era, so they will be offered to buy positive-impacts confectionery of their country...on line.
Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact?
A) Organizing the "Exporte-US" training I
A.1 to hire a webdeveloper & int. commerce instructor: First
A.2 local Media-campaign launch : Secondly
A.3 1st FDA-rules training : Summer 2015
A.4 Selection of the 121 producers*, that will be offered to participate in a workshop, to open a mobipreneur account
B) Agreement with Distributors chosen in Brooklyn,Queens,Long Island,...
C) Platform launch : Fall 2015
D) Organizing the "Exporte-US" (every 6 months)
E) Debut 2016 : Launch for another LAC country one.
PS* : most are women and don't own regular revenue.
Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
We have made the choice to have prepaid business model : in a few words, before the launch of the pioneer platform, all the costs will have been addressed thanks to on line adbans fees , official sponsorship agreement with key-partners and the bankable choice of a prepaid-card partner-provider ( unbanked among our 2 Mill. possible clients)
We will be ready to give more details our exploitation of the monopolistic innovating, a la Paul Romer.
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
We will be the 1st in Haiti to offer the entrepreneurs-"confiseurs" the unique opportunity to reach ON LINE the richest niche market for any Alma Mater product : more than 2.5 million of immigrant potential-consumers living in New York-New Jersey area (about 1 Million), Miami (600,000), Massachusetts (330,000), Fort-Lauderdale (100,000)...
And the pioneer to lead a New Economic market is the 1st and definitive winner... in general : Ford (car industry in USA), Ali Baba (e.commerce in China),..,
Founding Story
The idea of a "mobipreneurship-portal" came to my head through a Monday Business Class volunteer session for J/P HRO NGO most crowded refugees camp during summer 2010 :
after tragic earthquake, almost everybody in the world wished to help Haiti but is Launch an "amazonian" responsive website to sell products from local entrepreneurs for a durable development better than Giving millions that we're still search impact five years after this tragedy ?
Team
Terry Gray will be the responsible of the responsive (available for PC & mobile-based clients) development of the portal codenamed temporarily MobiHaiti.
Jacob Riche, Master in Finance, is VP of Administration.
Henry Fombrun, Master in e.learning, VP of Marketing & Communication
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Finally we have selected DirectionWorks, a floridian marketing & website provider, as the company that will be responsible of the responsible mobile business portal.