How to Become a Successful Social Entrepreneur

A read worth sharing: social entrepreneurship blends commerce with social issues, sitting somewhere between government intervention and traditional business to tackle problems that don't attract enough private capital on their own.

The piece outlines a few patterns behind successful social enterprises — building self-sustaining models that reduce reliance on philanthropic funding as they scale, acting as intermediaries between government, nonprofits, and business, and creative uses of technology, from cheaper alternatives to entirely new infrastructure.