Mid North Coast startup founder and founding director of YEP Careers, Crystal McGregor, of Port Macquarie, encourages regional entrepreneurs to use the free Regional Landing Pad at the Sydney Startup Hub to unearth a world of possibilities.

The Sydney Startup Hub celebrates its first year anniversary this month and in the past year alone its Regional Landing Pad has hosted 1072 meetings involving regional entrepreneurs, including over 132 from the Mid North Coast and North Coast.

“YEP11 with My Career Passport is an 11 module incubator program to help young people aged 15 to 24 develop job skills with an entrepreneurial mindset. We are rolling out our program on the Mid North Coast as part of the NSW Government’s Youth Employment Innovation Challenge,” Ms McGregor said.

“We were first introduced to the Regional Landing Pad when we visited the Sydney Startup Hub to deliver pitch workshops for our youth entrepreneur program YEP11, along with our resource My Career Passport, and I fell in love with it,” Ms McGregor said.

“We have now made visiting the Sydney Startup Hub a monthly priority as we realise that forming connections with other entrepreneurs and connecting our young people with them is invaluable for our business and program.

“The Regional Landing Pad has given us fantastic opportunities to link with other business people, meet amazing entrepreneurs, and visit the business incubators, as well as attend some really great events.”

The Regional Landing Pad offers free startup space for regional entrepreneurs based outside Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle. Regional entrepreneurs can visit for up to three days at a time to meet with other startups and potential business partners, investors, and service providers.

For further information on the Regional Landing Pad and to book a free visit see https://sydneystartuphub.com/regional

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