The problem, in Goldman and his team’s estimation, was a combination of design andĭistribution.
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Portable lights in poor rural areas wasn’t new. The concept of using solar power to recharge In the fall, they reunited, determined to continue They, too, needed lightĪfter completing the Entrepreneurial Design course, the teammates headed in their Trip, in one village the local police confiscated the prototypes. Were so taken that one woman actually wept. When shown how their crude prototype could provide light at night and be rechargedĭuring the day simply by deploying small solar panels on their homes, the villagers Villagers told them they spent up to 40 percent of their income on kerosene. The purpose of going into villages that didn’t have access to electricity to introduce theirĭevice. That spring, the team traveled to Burma for The team tackled the problem of light for people withoutĪccess to reliable electricity, and developed a rough prototype of a portable LED light Teamed up with Ned Tozun, a business classmate, and two engineering students,Įrica Estrade and Xian Wu. The class was divided into teams, and each team wasĬhallenged to address a significant issue in the developing world. A pivotal class was Jim Patelli’s 2006–2007Įntrepreneurial Design course. He landed at Stanford, which was startingĪ program in social enterprise. People without access to reliable electricity. Provide him the opportunity to start thinking about creating a business to take light to Impacted by this experience, Goldman sought out a graduate program that would Night that were unimaginable without the benefits reliable lighting provides. He could now cook, read, and do things at Light at night can make in a person’s life.
At one point during his time in the village, Goldman was given a batterypowered LED headlamp, and was struck by the dramatic difference that simply having The Peace Corps, he lived for four years in a West African village that had no electricity.Ī neighbor boy was badly burned in a kerosene fire, an event that deeply impacted Peru, India, Canada, and several other countries. Humanitarian assistance in countries across the globe. Growing up, Goldman’s parents worked for the United States Agency for Internationalĭevelopment (USAID), a government agency that provides economic and University, its beginning can be traced to Sam Goldman’s youth and early adulthood.
Although d.light technically started in a class at Stanford d.light is an internationalĬonsumer products company serving “base of the pyramid” consumers who lackĪccess to reliable electricity. Goldman and Ned Tozun, the cofounders of d.light, introduced the company atīusiness plan competitions and when they pitched investors. The scene described here actually took place-several times. Year, and cause countless health complications for others. In fact, the United Nations estimates that kerosene fumes kill 1.5 million people per Kerosene fuel is expensive, dangerous, and toxic to both people and the environment.
Households must burn some sort of fuel, such as kerosene, for cooking or lighting. Or more than one fifth of the world’s population, have no access to electricity, andĪbout a billion more have an unreliable or intermittent supply. The young men apologize for the lack of light and the smoke,īut say the demonstration was staged to illustrate a point. Start to water and it becomes slightly uncomfortable to breathe. The room, and smell smoke and burning kerosene. In a few seconds, you see a dim light at the front of Two young men introduce themselvesĪs the founders of d.light, and say they’re going to start their presentation with aĭemonstration. To people without access to reliable electricity. Next team up to present is d.light, a for-profit social enterprise that plans to bring light You are in the audience of a business plan competition.
Case 6.2 d.light: How Bringing Its Business Plan to Life Helped a Social
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