What It Means To Be A Social Entrepreneur

By James Watson


Starting a social venture is one of the most fulfilling undertakings. These start-ups, however, have been known to face many challenges as they get off the ground. As is the case with many other start-ups, a great majority of them fail to make it past their first birthday. We will look at some of the main challenge of a social entrepreneur in this article.

The presence of such people in society is of essence, because they act as the agents of change in many spheres of life. They get to identify and seize the opportunities that other people do not see or are afraid to explore, they improve systems and even invent new approaches of doing things. The end point of all this is creation of solutions to change society in better ways.

The entrepreneurs are also known to provide frameworks for businesses. This ultimately helps them find success in the pursuit of the desire to help others. For instance, setting up businesses provides employment to many persons both directly and indirectly. In many instances, this is considered a goal achieved by the investor.

Other major characteristics are that the individuals involved are usually passionate and determined about what they do. They possess a high sense of motivation, intrinsic or extrinsic, and are visionaries who have the aim of bringing change. In essence, the this kind of entrepreneur can be termed as a persons recruiter, who presents their ideas or solutions, in a manner that the people, who could be a part of the problem, get to see the need for a change and join the entrepreneur in attempts to achieve it.

Entrepreneurs also engage in the process of continuous innovations, adaptations and learning. In this manner, the society is at the advantage of benefiting from such innovations. The main limitation may be the fact the room for innovation is a bit restricted due to limited funding. Innovation is at times risky and may culminate in losses. This makes it difficult for a good number of social enterprises to exploit their full potential.

For the ventures that are to be involved in production of goods, locating the right manufacturers is more often than not, quite difficult. Faced by the entrepreneurs as they bargain their hunt to find the most affordable one in accordance to their financial capabilities. However coming up with the cash to meet the minimum order is usually a problem to the entrepreneurs.

The structure of these kind of ventures is such that it does not promote innovation and risk taking. More specifically, this form of investment is likely to suffer from financial constraints thus many prospective investors find themselves with limited room for risk taking. As is the case for every other sector, there is a need to encourage experimentation and risk taking without which the likelihood of failure is increased many times over.

The entrepreneurs also have the role of promoting the development of entrepreneurial skills among the societal members. It can therefore be seen that they have roles of very significant influence to the economy and also the society well-being. It is always of vital importance, as seen above that efforts made by the entrepreneurs be supported to see to their success.




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