About Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne sits in the state of Indiana in Allen County only 29km west of the Ohio border and 80km from Michigan. It has an estimated population of around the 264,488 mark, so this is no little backwater town. Built in 1794 by the United States Army, Fort Wayne was the last in a series of forts that was a trading post for pioneers. Today its economy is based upon distribution, transportation, logistics, healthcare, leisure and hospitality, as well as professional, financial and business services. It's also the center for the defense industry that employs thousands of the town folk. Coworking venues have opened up in Fort Wayne to cater to its creative and innovative locals giving them somewhere to mingle with likeminded souls.
Sitting in the United States where fewer people are taking the plunge into the startup realm compared to previous years, Fort Wayne is like many other cities where high-tech businesses need to regroup, rethink and rehash to come up with new ideas that haven't been exploited by the tech giants. Tech startups are an important ingredient in productivity growth. This slowing down of new tech businesses is being attributed to numerous factors such as an aging population and fewer technologies and ideas to exploit. The tech titans such as Facebook, Apple and Amazon are dominating the playing field leaving less room for innovators to break in.
With a mature ecosystem, the fledgling startups of the United States today need to dream bigger, get craftier and widen their imaginations to capture a new market space. Coworking venues are providing the space for collaboration for the tech savvy souls who have the hope and the will to succeed, or simply the space to work for remote workers.