{"id":43035,"date":"2023-10-20T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/why-jack-delosa-is-bringing-the-entourage-to-melbourne-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:25:37","slug":"why-jack-delosa-is-bringing-the-entourage-to-melbourne-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/why-jack-delosa-is-bringing-the-entourage-to-melbourne-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jack Delosa is bringing The Entourage to Melbourne – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the eyes of The Entourage founder and chief executive Jack Delosa, Victoria is quickly becoming one of the most important regions for producing Australian entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why the Sydney-sider is bringing his education institute for entrepreneurs to Melbourne.<\/p>\n

While many of The Entourage\u2019s 300,000 members access the institute\u2019s courses online, Delosa told SmartCompany<\/em> at the launch of The Entourage\u2019s Melbourne office on Friday that he is opening an office in Melbourne because \u201cthe time is really right for Melbourne at the moment and Victoria at large\u201d.<\/p>\n

Delosa says the Victorian government is leading this development.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Victorian government is very serious about entrepreneurship and innovation \u2026 and that\u2019s largely driven by the Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade, Philip Dalidakis,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe commitment is evidenced by the recent development of Launch Vic, which is an independent body, which the government have set up with an investment of $60 million to enable entrepreneurs to start and build successful businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s refreshing to see a government not only talking the talk, but walking the walk and putting the money where it matters,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

The Victorian entrepreneurs joining The Entourage come from right across the state but Delosa says he is encouraged from \u201cseeing all the activity and the ecosystem become particularly fertile\u201d in Melbourne\u2019s central business district.<\/p>\n

The Entourage\u2019s Melbourne office is located The Cluster, a co-working space right in the heart of the Melbourne CBD on Queen Street that is also home to a variety of small businesses and startups.<\/p>\n

For Delosa, The Cluster is one organisation that represents the development of Melbourne\u2019s entrepreneurial ecosystem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith bodies like Launch Vic, with organisations like The Cluster and other co-working spaces, incubators, education intuitions, the Wade Institute \u2013 which is a higher education system here delivering MBAs \u2013 the ecosystem is becoming particularly fertile,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur vision at The Entourage is to push civilization forward by enabling people to live on purpose, and the vision we hold for Australia is to make it the number one destination in the Asia-Pacific region for entrepreneurs and innovative enterprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cVictoria is such a key driver and enabler of actualising that vision at the moment because of the government, because of what education is doing, because of the grassroots ecosystem that has largely fostered itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Delosa, who joined the BRW Rich List in 2014 with estimated wealth of $25 million, founded The Entourage in 2010, after previously co-founded MBE Education, an organisation that taught the owners of small businesses about raising capital and exiting their businesses.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising then that Delosa believes education is essential to the Australian business community becoming more innovative.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gap that still exists in the innovation agenda, driven obviously by the federal government, is how are we going to embed innovation and entrepreneurship structurally within the culture of Australia?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou only do that through education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delosa describes entrepreneurship and innovation as \u201ca skill set with characteristics like anything else that individuals need to be taught and enabled and educated on how to execute\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more federal government, state governments and education institutes like The Entourage can do to help ingrain and embed great education, the more an innovative nation we will be,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

This article was first published on SmartCompany.<\/em><\/p>\n

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