What Young Entrepreneurs and Influencers are Focused on in 2022

What Young Entrepreneurs and Influencers are Focused on in 2022
Here’s a compilation of tips and predicted trends from a range of Gen Z and Millennial experts that can help business owners shape their approaches to work in 2022.
by Austin Tedesco Feb 16, 2022 — 4 min read
What Young Entrepreneurs and Influencers are Focused on in 2022

What ideas will determine the future of work and business this year? Here’s a compilation of tips, predicted trends and focus areas from a range of Gen Z and Millennial experts — including approaches to management, entrepreneurship, and business growth — that can help business owners shape their approaches to work in 2022.

Growth strategies | Entrepreneur Charlie Chang

Chang’s expertise ranges from eCommerce to real estate to finance. Here are four key areas of focus he has identified for growing a business this year:

Eco-conscious production | Eleanor Chen of Oddli

Chen is the co-founder of Oddli, a fashion brand embracing an eco-friendly approach as well as customizable attire. Along with its design aesthetic, Oddli stands out by making its product completely from deadstock fabric.

“Deadstock is the excess, new fabric from the fashion industry that otherwise gets thrown away,” Chen wrote. “There are 14 million pounds of this deadstock fabric created every day, so there’s no shortage in quantity to use … We use rolls to create our pieces, and recently we’ve even been using the scraps generated from our production to avoid any fabric waste. 

“It’d be easier to start creating our own recycled or organic fabrics, but for now, we really believe that there’s nothing more environmentally friendly than using fabrics that already exist. It avoids both the emissions and water pollution from creating fabric, and the waste associated with throwing it away.”

Mission-oriented businesses and financial knowledge sharing | Anne Bosman and Shriya Nevatia of On Deck

On Deck is an accelerator for entrepreneurs, with a program, Catalyst, dedicated to student and early-career founders. Bosman, the General Manager of Careers for On Deck, and Nevatia, drector of the Catalyst program, share their top predictions:

Making the remote workforce work | Kona

Kona is a company led by Gen Z founders that helps build strong remote teams. Its 2021 Remote Managers report features plenty of insight from interviews with 200 remote  managers, including:

The report found that building relationships and loneliness were the hardest part of remote work (35.6% of respondents), followed by motivation and team morale (26.2%).

Some tips via Kona’s report for businesses looking to strengthen their remote work culture:

Building strong habits | Financial educator Rose Han

Han is a former Wall Street trader who has broken through with a wide range of audiences by simplifying financial topics in ways that are digestible while remaining insightful. Two of her top tips for 2022 that can help entrepreneurs:

Austin Tedesco
Austin Tedesco is an editor at Square covering all things management — from the technical aspects of payroll and taxes to the soft skills that lead to strong teams for any business.

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