Top Entrepreneurial Trends In 2021

Kevin Ortzman
2 min readDec 28, 2020

Being an entrepreneur requires an enormous amount of ingenuity and resilience, but sometimes it’s helpful to know what general trends successful businesses and other entrepreneurs are following. These can be useful guidelines for building one’s own company and ensuring that it is financially stable and can succeed in its industry.

Be innovative and Community-Focused
A business should be part of the community it serves; the circular economy model focuses on providing benefits to society and the environment. This model will help integrate any business into a new area and help cultivate goodwill with consumers. Entrepreneurs are uniquely situated to build their businesses to fit this model since they don’t have to consider a large, pre-existing infrastructure, as established companies might.

Build a Diverse Team and Go Global
One of the most popular topics this year has been how to build a diverse, inclusive business. Many companies have encountered difficulties in recent months for not having a diverse staff or mistreating their minority employees. Entrepreneurs can avoid this pitfall altogether by building an inclusive culture from the ground up. It’s important to remember that businesses can now operate globally from anywhere in the world and to make sure that one builds a team that is equipped to handle all the international market entails.

Utilize Technology Effectively
Making good use of technology applicable to one’s field can save time and money. Automating menial tasks allows employees to spend their time on more important work that requires critical thought and enables employers to invest in training their workers to perform high-level tasks. Technology can make one’s entire company more efficient and allow more work to be done with minimal resources, which is ideal when one is just beginning to build one’s company.

Constructing a successful business can be a daunting task. Still, if one has a good concept that meets the needs of one’s community and allows room for growth and change, one can use the thoughtful and creative ideas that have brought success to other business people to create a company that is a thriving part of its community. Being a considerate and active part of society will prepare a business to thrive for generations.

Originally posted on KevinOrtzman.net.

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Kevin Ortzman

Kevin Ortzman is a natural-born leader and professional living in Chicago, Illinois & working as the Region President at Caesar’s. Learn more — KevinOrtzman.net