The Rising Influence of Jack Delosa
Setting yourself apart from others in the speaking and educational industries requires a hook; Delosa’s was first being the face of Gen Y entrepreneurship in Australia.
Setting yourself apart from others in the speaking and educational industries requires a hook; Delosa’s was first being the face of Gen Y entrepreneurship in Australia.
The level of engagement these companies achieve on a daily basis have marketers everywhere salivating at the mouth. If the internet has done anything for social causes, it has been allowing Activism to become the ultimate growth hacker. The only other space that achieves such incredible rapid opt-in is social media.
Last Friday, Delosa upped the ante, moving his growing empire to what is fast becoming Sydney’s startup hub, and opening up The Entourage’s Entrepreneur Development Centre (EEDC) on Harris street in Pyrmont.
Learn directly from Jack Delosa, Australia’s leading entrepreneur under 30, how to start, build and exit any high-growth business to create a multi-million dollar company
He was described throughout his school life as a “loveable rogue” on his report cards, someone who upon application of themselves produced results, but just generally didn’t like the school system. He now runs an education company with a goal of reaching 500 million dollars in revenue by 2023. In this interview with Jack Delosa, we go beyond the fluff and media hype of mainstream media, steer away from the “startup advice” type rhetoric often found in interviews with business builders, and we look at the reasons he is where he is today, the challenges he went through to get there and why only two years ago he flirted with the idea of packing in The Entourage and starting a real business.
In this clip the founders behind the business Locomote talk about going to their first Unconvention event and how attending the event changed their business and allowed them to start scaling their business up. Hear about the core lesson they learnt and what they used to grow their business and their team.
In the weeks leading up to the Young Entrepreneurs Unconvention we will be profiling Businesses and Individuals that have attended past Conventions. Sheryl Thai is the founder and owner of Cupcake Central, she has literally built the business from a bowl and some cake mix to the forecasted 2 million dollar business that it is today in less than 3 years.
Before I even started Shoe String, I attended my first Unconvention, and it completely opened my eyes, it was in fact the arse kicking I needed to put my ideas that I had into action and begin to create a business I could actually be proud of as opposed to just thinking about one.