In this episode of the Selling Fort Wayne podcast, hosts Tyler Morningstar and Kerri Morningstar talk with Dan Swart, Executive Director of Start Fort Wayne, a service organization that provides support to entrepreneurs and is also home to an all-inclusive and flexible coworking space located downtown. Dan shares his passion for the local community and talks about his current projects, which include supporting entrepreneurs, providing support services to startups, and merging technology with art.

"Mentorship is very similar to entrepreneurship. I'm not creating an entrepreneur if I'm doing the work for them, but I can provide them some sort of inspiration or a spark to go in the right direction or access to a specific resource that they didn't have. So a lot of this is really identifying what you are doing, providing discrete resources, and then getting out of their way." - Dan Swartz [20:48]

"Rural entrepreneurship is something that's very a large topic right now in America because rural spaces are tending to be disinvested in certain ways, and entrepreneurship is a path for those communities to grow their own wealth." - Dan Swartz [27:14]

What You Will Learn:

3:56 The Benefits of Coworking Spaces

12:59 Experience as the Ultimate Teacher

20:48 The Parallels Between the Arts and Entrepreneurship

22:41 Shared Office Space Options for Entrepreneurs

25:30 Membership Model for Regional Business Access to Multiple Spaces

29:08 Rural Entrepreneurship

Contact:

• Contact Tyler at [email protected] and (260) 433-5385.

Sponsor:

Blake Evans, National Property Inspections Fort Wayne: npiweb.com/fortwayne