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“Here I am, a Scottish-born Australian doctor with Sri Lankan heritage running a chain of Mexican  restaurants and doing aid work in the Asia-Pacific region in places like Cambodia, Sri Lanka and  Vietnam and now in remote communities in the Northern Territory,' says Dr Sam Prince. 'So I guess  I find my life a bit of a mess.'  

It's a mess that many other 28-year-olds would like to find themselves in.  

Prince started the restaurant chain Zambrero Fresh Mex Grill at 21 while still at medical school and  has gone on to grow the chain to over 17 stores while holding down a full-time job as a doctor. With  170 staff and an annual turnover of $13.7 million, BRW magazine named it the fastest-growing  franchise in Australia for 2011.  

Soon afterwards, Prince set up the Emagine Foundation, through which he's built 15 schools in Sri  Lanka, Vietnam and far north Queensland, and plans 100 more in the Asia-Pacific region by 2014.  Then there's the 'plate for plate' initiative, which means for every meal sold at Zambrero, a plate of food is donated to the developing world. Working through its distribution partner, Action Against  Hunger, it has already delivered 279,000 plates of food to the Therapeutic Feeding Centre in Liberia,  Africa.  

Prince is also chairman and founder of One Disease at a Time, set up in 2010 to work on eradicating  scabies, a disease rife among Indigenous communities. His prodigious achievements saw him named  as the 2012 Young Australian of the Year for the Australian Capital Territory.  

'Sam Prince does the work of 100 men, improving the lives of thousands through his innovative  medical, business and aid projects,' stated GQ in naming him the 2011 Man of Chivalry in its annual  Men of the Year list.  

When we meet at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Prince, who lives between Canberra and Sydney, is on  a six-month sabbatical from practicing medicine. But this is no schoolboy break – he's using the time to set up a stem cell company and an alternative energy company. He's also planning to open about  30 new restaurants in Australia, taking the number of Zambrero outlets to 50 by the end of the year,  and fit in some fieldwork in East Arnhem Land before returning to clinical practice in the middle of  the year.  

From the wise age of 28, Prince admits to being fairly naïve when he first headed to Asia as a 21- year-old. He'd made a bit of money in business and wanted to give something back. He chose South East Asia as the initial focus of his aid work because he'd seen the value a free education had given  his own parents who came from humble beginnings in Sri Lanka.  

He learnt three significant lessons.  

Lesson one: before you do any kind of aid work ensure you have a clear understanding of what you  believe is a basic human right and what you believe is a basic human responsibility. And, yes, there's a clear line between the two, he says. 'As doctors we take the Hippocratic Oath of 'first do no  harm'. If you actually don't understand where that line is you can end up harming people by taking  power away from them when you start doing things that you think are basic human responsibilities,'  says Prince.  

“You have to run an aid organisation with the same rigour as you would a business.”  

Lesson two: When he thinks back to working in emergency departments in hospitals, he recalls the  look of sheer desperation in the eyes of people wheeled into the emergency departments after  suffering a medical emergency, such as a heart attack. He saw the same look in the eyes of the  people he was helping. 'It's the eyes of people who are truly desperate for your help, money, time,  effort, education or healthcare,' says Prince. 'For me to sleep at night and to be able to look into the  mirror and know that I've done things ethically every step of the way I knew I could have no agenda.  No political or financial or religious agenda. That seemed so important to me and it was a value that  we didn't ever cross.'  

Lesson three: You have to run an aid organisation with the same rigour as you would a business. 'I  thought that just because people were in need and needed a hand up that they were all good  people,' he says. 'The reality is that's not the truth. People are good and bad, just like there are  good and bad people in every other demographic.'  

From Asia, his focus shifted closer to home to indigenous communities. The idea behind One Disease  at a Time was sparked by a conversation with one of his mentors, Frank Bowden. The professor of  medicine at the Australian National University Medical School had eradicated the sexually  transmitted disease donovanosis out of Australia permanently in four years at a cost of $4 million  and 10 staff. 'That's not a lot of money, time or resources and I thought 'wow, that's something I  can do as a doctor, aid worker and entrepreneur',' says Prince.  

Professor Bowden, who sits on the board of One Disease at a Time, first met Prince when he was a  resident medical officer at the Canberra Hospital in 2008. 'He was already running a number of  businesses and had begun his philanthropic work in Sri Lanka,' says Professor Bowden. 'I am  constitutionally suspicious of medical entrepreneurs who, in my experience, can put the pursuit of  financial gain before the desire to care for their patients. The exact opposite applied to Sam – the  son of one of my friends had been looked after by Sam in our emergency department one Saturday  afternoon. My friend described the appearance of Sam amid the controlled chaos of the hospital as  something like a magician waving his wand to create a bubble of peace and calm around his son.  This is a special and rare talent.' 

Another key person involved with One Disease at a Time is Professor Jonathan Carapetis, head of the  Menzies School of Health Research at Charles Darwin University. His research revealed a link  between skin infections caused by the scabies mite and the potentially fatal rheumatic heart disease.  The mite that gets under the skin can also lead to kidney failure. While the disease doesn't register  among non-Aboriginal Australians, in communities such as those in East Arnhem Land, seven out of  10 children are infected with scabies.  

Prince takes the question of 'why Aboriginal health?' as a philosophical challenge. His view is that  while not everyone should end up in the same place, everyone should be given a chance to start off  at the same place. 'While education is great at liberating people from dire circumstances,' he says,  'there's a basic level of healthcare you need to reach before you can then go on to catapult yourself  with a great education.'  

This realisation flipped the hierarchy of basic human rights for Prince from education one,  healthcare two, to healthcare one, education two.  

When his mother, Dr Thilaka Prince, topped the district in her final exams in her rural village near  Galle in Sri Lanka, his maternal grandfather was distraught because he couldn't afford to send her to  university. Never mind, his mother won a scholarship to study economics at Colombo University and  went on to get five degrees. Another scholarship took her to the UK to do a PhD in statistics; Prince  was born in Dundee, Scotland, five days after she finished her doctorate. Her journey would shape  who he would become.  

'I'd been born in to a completely different world – one where everything was possible if I put my  mind to it – to the one she had known,' says Prince. 'And I owed it all to a very humble beginning. It wasn't just me who benefited from this. My Mum continued her life with a great amount of dignity  and passion and a deep-seated responsibility to give something back to her family and the  community to which she came from.'  

The Prince family moved to Canberra in 1986 after his parents decided it was safer in Australia than  Sri Lanka because of the civil war. While they'd lived in the relatively safe Colombo it was hardly a  safe haven considering the prevalence of suicide bombers. 'It didn't matter where you lived, it didn't matter if you were living in the front line or Colombo, because your kids might go out one day to a  market and that could be the end of their lives, or they could be seriously injured,' says Prince.  'They decided they didn't want that for myself and my sister and they decided to emigrate. Mum  was an amazing statistician and got a job in the Australian Bureau of Statistics.'  

Prince obviously inherited his mother's penchant for study. He did his final years of high school at  Lake Ginninderra College and at 16 was at Australian National University (ANU) studying literature  and astrophysics. After a year he decided he preferred biology, and its practical application in  medicine, and enrolled in med school. He graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of  Surgery at Monash University before returning to Canberra.  

His mother is now retired. But after all the sacrifices she made she'd probably prefer it if he was just  a doctor.  

'She gets a bit worried when I get stressed out about other things, but it's very interesting because  she had a life of struggle and now while I'm not struggling, I am working very hard,' he says. 'You do what you've learnt and seen and I've watched my Mum work hard all her life, so I don't think I can  do anything differently.'  

For the past decade, he's been getting by on four hours sleep a night. Asked about the risk of  burning out, he admits it's his biggest fear. 

While medicine has always been a really fulfilling career for Prince – he loves the patient care, the  art of the bedside manner, and the challenges – he recalls going through a process where he thought  he was an entrepreneur masquerading as a medical student rather than the other way around.  In 2009 Prince appointed his first chief executive officer, Stuart Cook, to run the Mexican food chain.  He'd met the then 23-year-old Cook on a bus on the way to the Taj Mahal. Prince was in India to pick  up an award from the Junior Chamber International making him one of the 10 Outstanding Young  People of the World in 2008. The award was in recognition of the aid work he'd done in South-East  Asia. This included the aforementioned 15 schools and the public education campaigns he'd run in  Sri Lanka to reduce the number of deaths from snake bites and dengue fever.  

Prince says the financial success of Zambrero has essentially bought him his freedom.  

'You can get to a point in life where you are not forced to do anything, you are not forced to go to  work 9-5 for a job or a career because you've got golden handcuffs to a house that you can't quite  afford, and you have to do this work for a third of your life,' he says. 'I figured out early on that  what makes me really happy is adventure and discovery. If I have those two things in my life I am  really, really happy.'  

While his plans to roll out 30-plus new restaurants this year sounds risky, Prince claims he's  inherently averse to risk. All the restaurants in the chain are profitable and have grown organically  rather than by taking on debt.  

The idea of starting a restaurant struck while he was working at a chef in at a Mexican restaurant to  put himself through medical school. He saw the growth of a new sort of Mexican grill in the US and a  gap in the market locally for fresh, healthy, gourmet Mexican food. He opened his first restaurant in  Canberra in 2005 with an investment of $10,000.  

'It was one of those things that you feel so strongly about that you actually have to do something  about it,' he says. 'Plus I love Mexican food. I was absolutely obsessed about chocolate mole,  nachos, chipotle and jalapenos. Real Mexican food is so different to what Australians had been  taught to expect.'  

While he doesn't know exactly what drives the extremely ambitious Prince, Professor Bowden says  unlike most entrepreneur/philanthropists who make their money and then distribute it in their  fifties, Prince seems intent on distributing it now. 'I would venture that some of his motivation is  competitive – he likes to succeed where the stakes are high, but his actions are underpinned by a  philosophy of service to the community,' says Professor Bowden. 'I have pushed myself to do new  things and to persist where I may have otherwise given up after talking to him about his owns  plans.'  

He adds that the elimination of scabies from East Arnhem Land is an incredibly difficult task and no one has any illusions that a simple investment of more money will solve a complex problem that is as  much a social issue as a medical one. However, Professor Bowden is confident that the energy Prince  has already expended and the relationships he will continue to develop will pay off.  

'You have to be patient with initiatives in Aboriginal health. But you also have to be brave and  resilient as there will always be people who will criticise your actions and question your motives,'  says Professor Bowden. 'I have no doubt Sam will persevere and that we will be able to develop a  successful model that can be applied in other communities in Australia.'  

Prince clearly clocks up an impressive number of hours each week, but for him work and play blend  into one. For the past decade he's been getting by on about four hours sleep a night. Asked about  the risk of burning out, he admits it's his biggest fear, something he's constantly pontificating about with his friends, mentors and colleagues. Perhaps harking back to that year of literature at ANU, he  reads out a quote from Ayn Rand that sums up his feelings about living a full life.  

'… It is a sense of enormous expectation, a sense that one's life is important, that great  achievements are within one's capacity and that great things lie ahead. It is not in the nature of man,  or that of any living entity to start by giving up, or spitting in one's own face and damning existence.  This requires a process of corruption whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at the  first touch of pressure, some sell out, some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire,  never knowing when or how they lost it…'  

Giving up is simply not an option for Prince, but the reason he manages to get so much done is he's  attracted a team of talented people around him. About 300 people are involved in his various  enterprises.  

Samantha Cran, chief executive officer of One Disease at a Time, first met Prince at a business/net working event. She recalls being taken aback by his ability to translate his core values into actions  and felt she had to be part of the movement. She started as a volunteer before becoming the CEO.  'Sam is the ultimate definition of an entrepreneur,' says Cran. 'Whether it's in business or  healthcare, for each industry he is the visionary who can see a gap in the market before others do  and then diligently backs himself to fill it. He also has the tenacity to push through any barriers – it is  this 'will' that people recognise early and are truly inspired by.'  

Prince puts the willingness of others to get involved down to him wearing his dreams on his sleeves.  'By virtue of claiming it and saying, 'I want to do this', and being open about it, this activates the people around you,' says Prince. 'I think there's just such an abundance of people who can help  you. We live in a scarcity concept where we feel like there's only one person in the world who can  help you achieve your dream, there's probably 10 of them and they are probably sitting in this cafe  right now.'  

The Overall Task  

The following questions are all based on the above Zambrero article published in Australia  Unlimited. Basing your arguments on the topics that you have studied in the first five weeks of this  unit, write a report addressing the following two questions:  

  1. a) Entrepreneurs have been identified as having certain traits and characteristics. Discuss the  extent to which Zambrero founder Sam prince exemplifies these traits and characteristics.  Justify your response with reference to academic sources (e.g. academic journal articles,  textbooks, etc.).  
  2. b) The article clearly outlines what we might consider ‘social entrepreneurship’, whereby an  entrepreneur establishes and/or leads an organisation or initiative engaged in social change.  Within the article, Sam Prince notes three lessons or challenges in running a social  enterprise. In this section of your paper, we are asking you to describe at least three more  major boundaries or challenges involved in running a social enterprise not mentioned by  Sam Prince. Again, you should be looking to use academic sources as the foundation of your  review. Wikipedia or web blogs are not considered as ‘sound’ academic sources.  

Write up your analysis. This should be in a report format. Here is a suggested structure:  

  1. Executive Summary  
  2. Introduction  
  3. Analysis of Entrepreneur traits/characteristics (ie. linking them to Dr Sam Prince)  d. Major Boundaries or Challenges in Social Entrepreneurship  
  4. Conclusion  
  5. References  
  6. Appendix (if required)  

Submit the report via the Turnitin Submission Link (under Assessment Details on the Blackboard  site)…be fully aware of the plagiarism rules in the School; plagiarism will not be tolerated.  

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Solution

This report drew attention towards required traits that an entrepreneur should possess through the case of Sam Price. The case presents the professional life and achievements of Sam Prince as an Entrepreneur. He is from Sri Lankan heritage and also a doctor in Australia. Sam undertook a journey that took him through various learning stages of experience. The report focussed on the concept of Social entrepreneurship and discussed that entrepreneurship is not only making a big profit but also providing support to underprivileged communities and society to grow. In light of the Sam prince case, it was found that there are various characteristics of entrepreneurship through a different perspective, such as passion resilience and vision that an entrepreneur possesses. It explained how social entrepreneurship provides a helping hand to society by taking the challenges.

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Introduction

Entrepreneurship can be understood as the willingness and capacity of developing, organising and managing a business taking any of the risks with the view to earning a profit (Volery, et al., 2013). At times, there are entrepreneurs who establish social enterprises to support various social goals. These entrepreneurs drive transformation and social innovations in various fields such as health, education, environment, etc. Such kind of entrepreneurship is termed as social entrepreneurship (Tan & Yoo, 2014). However, these entrepreneurs possess various traits such as passion, vision, resilience, which make them successful in their fields (Rampton, 2014). In this report, the individual’s approach of entrepreneurship towards serving the society has been discussed in the light of the case study. The case discusses Sam Prince, who at the age of 21, starts a chain of the restaurant named Zambrero, although he was pursuing a career in medicine. He extended the chain up to 17 stores, simultaneously holding the job of a full-time doctor. Along with this, he continued his project of setting up the Emagine foundation by building 15 schools all over Vietnam, Sri Lanka, as well as the northern region of Queensland (Jacobs, 2012). Further, Sam Prince started an organisation called One Disease at a Time during 2010. This organisation worked on eliminating scabies, which was a prevalent disease amongst aboriginal communities. For all his hard work, he was recognised as well as rewarded (Jacobs, 2012). This report will analyse the traits and characteristics that an entrepreneur should possess in the light of the traits that Sam Prince possesses. Further, the report will explain the concept of Social Entrepreneurship and its challenges.  

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