[Stoves] GACC Webinar (that was) coming up in less than 10 hours

[Paul Anderson]

Ron,

I attended the webinar.   It was not about stove technology, but about 
how to make a stove company grow.

The webinar was interesting and worthwhile.  But some aspects of 
EcoZoom's history were not mentioned.  And never mentioned is that the 
stoves are made in China by Mr Shen's (Chen's ?) company in conjunction 
with Aprovecho.  So the EcoZoom story of the recent years (the topic of 
the webinar) was about  marketing and  sales challenges and successes.

Paul

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On 9/6/2017 3:18 PM, Ronal W. Larson wrote:
> List:
>
> This is a brief summary of today’s GACC webinar.
>
> It was almost entirely based on a report from May this year, totally 
> unrelated to stoves - that can be found at: 
> https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/FINAL%20Scaling%20Pathways%20-%20Pivoting%20to%20Impact%20(5.11.17).pdf?FUAG78FHtelgEUrQzC26YVmcN8apeovu 
> <https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/FINAL%20Scaling%20Pathways%20-%20Pivoting%20to%20Impact%20%285.11.17%29.pdf?FUAG78FHtelgEUrQzC26YVmcN8apeovu> . 
>  The producing group and the author’s names are there - again, not 
> stove related.
>
> Two Principals at a young growing stove company (EcoZoom - 
> headquartered in Kenya):  Amanda West (one of 3 founders, now at Mercy 
> Corps  and Oli Raison (the present CEO) alternated back and forth on 
> different aspects of this report.  They especially concentrated on 
> five roadblocks summarized in this figure I took from the report. 
>  Amanda (leading off) and Oli spent more than 5 minutes on each of the 
> 5 topics - mainly concentrating on the EcoZoom experience.
>
>
> I thought the two webinar stove participants were exceptionally good. 
>  EcoZoom (about $2.5 M/yr) has a portion of their business on solar 
> lamps, which was especially interesting to me as I was a Board member 
> of such a company (In Namibia) that clearly had many of the growing 
> pain issues I heard this AM.
>
> If you couldn’t hear today’s message (sponsored by GACC, but minimal 
> participation by GACC staff this time) I recommend the webinar much 
> more than the above-cited report.  The GACC site for the webinar, when 
> it is ready, is likely to be http://cleancookstoves.org/events/414.html
>
> You might also get something from these sites:
> https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/resources/scaling-pathways-pivoting-impact 
> (where Amanda’s name also appears) ,
> https://www.mercycorps.org/sites/default/files/Mercy_Corps_Social_Venture_Fund_Overview_May_2016.pdf ,
> http://skoll.org/contributor/amanda-west/
> and https://ecozoomstove.com/pages/about-us .
>
> Ron
>
>
>> On Sep 5, 2017, at 9:46 PM, Ronal W. Larson 
>> <rongretlarson at comcast.net <mailto:rongretlarson at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>
>> List.
>>
>> I think not to late to sign up at 
>> https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8382972803538663169.
>>
>> Ron
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