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Ron,<br>
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I attended the webinar. It was not about stove technology, but
about how to make a stove company grow. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>
Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.drtlud.com">www.drtlud.com</a></pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/6/2017 3:18 PM, Ronal W. Larson
wrote:<br>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This
is a brief summary of today’s GACC webinar.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It
was almost entirely based on a report from May this year,
totally unrelated to stoves - that can be found at: <a
href="https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/FINAL%20Scaling%20Pathways%20-%20Pivoting%20to%20Impact%20%285.11.17%29.pdf?FUAG78FHtelgEUrQzC26YVmcN8apeovu"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/FINAL%20Scaling%20Pathways%20-%20Pivoting%20to%20Impact%20(5.11.17).pdf?FUAG78FHtelgEUrQzC26YVmcN8apeovu</a> .
The producing group and the author’s names are there - again,
not stove related.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div>
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id="573A9EA9-53A1-4686-A24E-50579E90688D" apple-width="yes"
apple-height="yes" src="cid:part2.E47DCB72.1F5D0DFF@ilstu.edu"
class="" width="638" height="480"></div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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 <a
href="http://cleancookstoves.org/events/414.html" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">http://cleancookstoves.org/events/414.html</a></div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>You
might also get something from these sites:</div>
<div class=""><a
href="https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/resources/scaling-pathways-pivoting-impact"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://scalingpathways.globalinnovationexchange.org/resources/scaling-pathways-pivoting-impact</a>
(where Amanda’s name also appears) , </div>
<div class=""><a
href="https://www.mercycorps.org/sites/default/files/Mercy_Corps_Social_Venture_Fund_Overview_May_2016.pdf"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.mercycorps.org/sites/default/files/Mercy_Corps_Social_Venture_Fund_Overview_May_2016.pdf</a> ,</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://skoll.org/contributor/amanda-west/"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://skoll.org/contributor/amanda-west/</a></div>
<div class="">and <a
href="https://ecozoomstove.com/pages/about-us" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">https://ecozoomstove.com/pages/about-us</a> .</div>
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<div class="">Ron</div>
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moz-do-not-send="true">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I
think not to late to sign up at <a
href="https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8382972803538663169"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8382972803538663169</a>.</div>
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<div class="">Ron</div>
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