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An entrepreneur is defined as a person who assumes a certain amount of calculated and uncalculated risk starting, or taking over a new venture. A social entrepreneur is someone who sees a social problem, and uses entrepreneurial skills to attain the desired social change, or outcome.
One looks for change, the other for profit; Lisa Conte CEO of Napo Pharmaceuticals was looking for both. By partnering her patented drugs with other pharmaceutical companies, as well as non-profits, Conte felt that she could both be a successful public company which was committed to solving problems of the third world due to its large potential base. Her aim was to bring her product Crofelemer to the developing world for treatment of different motility based ailments. The idea was that volume to the third world in a needy market, would out produce the margins in western civilization
The CEO
Lisa Conte started her career with a MS in Pharmacology from UC San Diego, and an MBA from the Tuck school......

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