It is difficult for someone speaking from the comforts of Babson College where the lights and heat and air conditioning function perfectly, we have good food, water and shelter, we have convenient transportation and telecommunication, access to doctors and medicine, it is difficult for us to grasp the depths of tragedy that has befallen the country and people of Haiti. Our hearts go out to Haiti.I listened to President Preval the other night on NPR announcing that the reconstruction of Haiti is starting. The emergency is not over -- there are still tens of millions of cubic feet of rubble to remove -- but the rebuild is starting to take place. I cannot pretend to be an expert in how to rebuild a devastated nation and people from scratch; I only know about how to build companies from scratch.
I am sure Haitians have heard from many well-intentioned people that there is opportunity in crisis, and I am sure in your hearts you felt, "that is an opportunity I would rather do without." So I do not want to gloss over the unmitigated pain. Nevertheless, as you rebuild your transportation, communications, health, and institutional infrastructures, a long process, I would like you to consider that Haiti will benefit tremendously from understanding that there is an infrastructure for entrepreneurship as well. Try not to forget that. Try to treat the entrepreneurship infrastructure as as important as all the basic ones.
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Author: Daniel Isenberg
