Editor’s note: This article is not only important because it represents good research, but also because it gets to (what we’ve learned) is the heart of the matter. The disconnect between private enterprise and social enterprise is the lack of acceptance that a few years of losses inevitably precedes any real success or sustainability. It is anathema to me that business people don’t apply the same rules to social innovation that we do to our own businesses. That is, that to gain one must lose…for a while.
