I’ve been a mentor, advisor, investor and Board member to many individual startup residents and an incubator within the Sydney Startup Hub (SSH), so I guess you can say I’ve seen the birth and life-to-date of the SSH from within.
The premise of establishing the SSH was sound.
What a great idea to create a centralised hub for all these entrepreneurs to reside in the one place and space! Think of the potential collusions and collaborations that will germinate. But it’s not a case of Build it and they will come, nor Build it and it will just magically happen.
Establishing an innovation hub or precinct is not just about property and location, it is about creating a community! Both internally within the hub and creating channels to connect that community to the external world – investors, industry, universities, Government etc.
