There are many reasons as to why social entrepreneurs do what they do. In this modern age, everyone is exposed through global media about the major challenges that the under developed countries face and also people that are underprivileged in the developed world. Some of these challenges are global warming, pollution, epidemics, chronic diseases, famine and others. These are the reasons social entrepreneurs do what they do.

The Green or cleantech ventures should be classified as social enterprises is because that they are still concerned about making the world a better place. The only difference is that they will be making a profit. If they reinvest the profit back into the company is totally up to them.

Some of the negative effects of being a social venture for nonprofit are growth and management challenges, hard to sustain and finally hard to acquire investments from investors.

Stakeholders view social ventures more differently is because it is not where you start a company and the goal is to make profits. The company must stick with the aligned goal it started with. Many of social ventures fail due to the fact that the derail from the goal they started with and the people that volunteers and donates stop. Without these, the social venture would fall apart.

Some of the growth challenges social venture face are growing too fast, where instead of being a social venture, ends up being like any other business. When hiring employees for social ventures, they are usually more followers than employees. These people actually care for the cause and would work way harder than a regular employee that just gets paid by the hour. Additionally, when the venture grows, communication tends to fall through the cracks.