@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialWhen raising prices costs you the customer, you're not just losing a sale. You're learning that your pricing was never about the product — it was about trust. #entrepreneurialecosystems #founders #emergingmarkets #economicdevelopment #impactinvestment
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialA 200% margin sounds like a success story. For a founder in an emerging market, it can mean the difference between staying open and closing. Margins aren't vanity — they're survival. #entrepreneurialecosystems #founders #economicdevelopment #emergingmarkets #impactinvestment
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialFinancial power isn't about how much money you have. It's about how much say you get over what happens to it. Most founders have neither. #entrepreneurialecosystems #economicdevelopment #womenentrepreneurs #emergingmarkets #impactinvestment
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialThe data on governance aid shows something uncomfortable: the money that works is the money that gets closest to the people it's meant for. Distance is the enemy. #entrepreneurialecosystems #globaldev #impactinvestment #economicdevelopment #emergingmarkets
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialAn economic rule stays broken long after everyone agrees it is broken. Not because nobody knows — because the people who benefit from the rule are not the people who suffer from it. #entrepreneurialecosystems #globaldev #emergingmarkets #economicdevelopment #impactinvestment
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialWhere does money leak in delivery? Not in the big line items. In the small ones — the fees, the delays, the requirements that look like accountability but function as friction. #entrepreneurialecosystems #globaldev #economicdevelopment #impactinvestment #emergingmarkets
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialODA to least developed countries fell 1.5% in 2024. The countries that need it most are getting less. Meanwhile the MSME finance gap grew to $5.7T. #entrepreneurialecosystems #globaldev #emergingmarkets #economicdevelopment #impactinvestment
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialA term sheet doesn't look at the business. It looks at the founder's network, their school, their zip code. The best businesses don't always get funded. The best-connected ones do. #entrepreneurialecosystems #founders #impactinvestment #emergingmarkets #economicdevelopment
@market-ocean-en.bsky.socialThe question now is whether markets are pricing the winner or the fiscal arithmetic that any winner will inherit, and whether the gap between the two is as wide as the campaign rhetoric suggests. #Brazil2026 #BrazilianReal #EmergingMarkets
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialA woman with a stronger business gets less money. The appraisal gap isn't about the business — it's about who the system was built to recognize. #entrepreneurialecosystems #womenfounders #impactinvestment #economicdevelopment #emergingmarkets
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialWomen entrepreneurs are about half as likely as men to report having borrowed from a bank. It's not a difference in creditworthiness — it's a difference in what the scoring model can see. #entrepreneurialecosystems #womenfounders #womenentrepreneurs #emergingmarkets #impactinvestment
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialAid fell 6.0% in 2024 — the first decline after five years of growth. When official capital pulls back, it's founders in emerging markets who feel it first. #entrepreneurialecosystems #globaldev #emergingmarkets #economicdevelopment #impactinvestment
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialConcession capital is cheap money with expensive terms. It asks for patience, and patience has a cost. Founders need to know what they're trading before they sign. #entrepreneurialecosystems #impactinvestment #economicdevelopment #emergingmarkets #founders
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialBootstrapping beats VC for most small businesses. Not because founders don't want growth — because the terms of VC money don't fit the businesses they're building. #entrepreneurialecosystems #founders #impactinvestment #economicdevelopment #emergingmarkets
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@fullertreacymoney.substack.com@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialA founder in Sierra Leone asks for a loan. The model sees no collateral, no credit history, no proximity to money. It says no. The model isn't wrong about the data — it's wrong about what the data means. #entrepreneurialecosystems #founders #emergingmarkets #economicdevelopment #impactinvestment
@entrepreneurialeco.bsky.socialLDCs receive 2.4% of global FDI — home to 14% of the world's population. It's not an accident — it's what a scoring system sees when it was never designed to look at these founders. #entrepreneurialecosystems #emergingmarkets #globaldev #impactinvestment #founders
@dnaoilky.bsky.socialLatin America’s election cycle is reshaping investor expectations, with Brazil’s October vote now a major focus. Policy direction could affect regulation, mining and fiscal outlooks across the region.
@pmaier1971.bsky.socialEmerging Market Update: Longer-term view of currency movements since the start of the post-pandemic monetary tightening cycle. All currencies indexed to 100 on March 16 (date of the first Fed rate hike); latest data point is 25 Sep #fx #emergingmarkets #econsky
