“Connect with Australia’s Leading Entrepreneurs to Accelerate the Growth of Your Business”
Looking for a way to stimulate growth in your company?
Want to surround yourself with some of the best names in Australian business?
Like to connect with 400 entrepreneurs under 40?
Australia’s top entrepreneurs, investors, top tier business brands and 400 high-growth companies are all coming together for what has become known as Australia’s largest event for entrepreneurs under 40.
Frustrated & Underachieving Despite Giving It Your All?
With the business landscape showing signs of strain, the Australian economy is slowing, putting pressure on small businesses to tighten margins and make decisions quickly.
To make things harder, Gen Y continues to attract negative press, labeling the generation as lazy, disloyal and professionally unreliable.
Although these factors can make life harder for some business owners, what we’re seeing is a market place that is tailor made for Gen Y entrepreneurs who are willing to go the extra mile.
Australian business owners list their number one challenge as ‘growth’ and their number two challenge as ‘access to capital’. With consumer spending slowing, more educated customers and heightened competition, walking the entrepreneurial path alone can be tiresome.
Now more than ever it is important to not only surround yourself with the best, but to ensure you only seek advice from entrepreneurs with ‘been there done that’ experience.
The Young Entrepreneurs Unconvention is Australia’s largest event for entrepreneurs under 40. Consistently sold out in Melbourne and Sydney for the last two years, The Unconvention is your opportunity to connect with Australia’s best entrepreneurs, while networking with 400 like-minded high-growth business owners in your age bracket.
Why The Unconvention is Unmissable!
- Hear from Australia’s best entrepreneurs and learn how they succeeded
- Meet 400 young entrepreneurs (18-40) all heading up high-growth businesses
- Talk to seasoned entrepreneurs and investors to improve your business
- Take action that will make you a better business person and entrepreneur
- Build a business based on solid, proven business processes and principals
- The chance to pitch your business to the panel of judges & audience of 400
- Be part of a 4000 strong movement of young entrepreneurs.
- Seats are strictly limited by the venue, so act fast.
So What “IS” The Young Entrepreneurs’ Unconvention?
The Unconvention is the largest event for Gen Y entrepreneurs, holding the record for most attendees in Australian history with over 400 entrepreneurs and executives attending each event.
The world has changed & so must business education!
The Entourage brings in leading entrepreneurs to deliver real world stories and practical education, giving tangible direction to make attendee’s businesses more scalable and saleable.
An event the size of The Young Entrepreneurs’ Unconvention attracts leading entrepreneurs and investors to the room, giving you the opportunity to discuss your business with industry experts.
Attending a Young Entrepreneurs’ Unconvention will leave you with lessons that will help you build a better business and financial future for yourself. An opportunity not to be passed up.
And What Happens At An Unconvention?
- Hear from real entrepreneurs as they reveal their most effective strategies and tell their story
- Meet and mingle with over 400 other entrepreneurs
- Learn from real investors while watching The Search for Vic’s Top Young Entrepreneur
- Continue the networking long into the night at The Official Unconvention Afterparty
The Entrepreneurs
The Entourage provides real business education delivered by entrepreneurs and as such we bring in experienced entrepreneurs not professional speakers.
All the presenters at the Unconventions have real “been there, done that” experience that can be applied directly to your business.
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Peter Davison
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Andrew Thomas
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Liz Atkinson
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Jack Delosa
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The Host
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Andrew Morello – Winner of The ApprenticeAndrew Morello won the first season of The Apprentice Australia and now works alongside Mark Bouris. Andrew is the head of business development at Yellow Brick Road and has been heavily involved in their recent IPO. As one of Australia’s leading salesmen and a business owner since the age of 15, Andrew is an in demand business advisor, working with some of Australia’s largest brands to help them increase their financial performance. Andrew’s high energy, take-no-prisoners presentation style is unmistakable and will leave you thinking in a new way. |
Your Exclusive Bonuses – Worth $378.95
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The Official Unconvention After Party Ticket – $30.00 valueContinue networking with 400 young entrepreneurs at an exclusive gathering. Grab a drink or three, make friends and broker deals. This part of the event is not to be missed! |
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Capital Raising for High-Growth Whitepaper – $297.00 valueLearn where the money is in Australia and what you can do to raise capital from investors. |
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Shoe String Launch Magazine – $4.95 valueThe newest editorial resource for young entrepreneurs and startups in Australia. A great read filled with valuable resources. |
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Tom McKaskill’s “Raising Venture Capital” – $47.00 value“Angel and Venture Capital finance assists entrepreneur’s with high growth ventures to capitalise on their potential. However, Angel Investors and VC Funds have their own methods of working and their own specific objectives. Unless the entrepreneur can present the venture investment proposal in their terms and in a form which meets the investor’s objectives, the funding request will be unsuccessful. This book sets out how Angel and VC funding processes work” |
The Search For Vic’s Top Young Entrepreneur
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Pitch to a panel of entrepreneurs and investors!In the search for Vic’s Top Young Entrepreneur 3 companies will have the chance to pitch. The winning company will receive a prize back worth in excess of $6000!
The Ideal Applicant Will Meet The Following Criteria
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In a Nutshell
When: Sunday March 4th, 2012. 9:00am – 5:30pm
Where: RMIT Storey Hall, 336 – 342 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC
Investment: $47 Early Bird Price, before increasing to $87
Important: Please note that you will not receive a ticket, your name and email address will be used for registration on the day.
Get Your $87 $47 Ticket While You Can
Every Unconvention ever held has sold out well in advance of the event and this year there will be absolutely No Free Tickets of any sort.
This event is your rare opportunity to network with like-minded individuals and hear from some of Australia’s best entrepreneurs. Plus you get all this at the early bird rate of $47.
Stories From Our Graduates & Partners
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LocomoteRoss and David Fastuca of Locomote have grown from their dining room table, to having full infrastructure, investors and clients including ANZ, Coles, Deloitte and Vodafone. Watch a quick video about Locomote’s success. |
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Cupcake CentralSheryl and Thin came along to The Young Entrepreneurs’ Unconvention just a couple of months after Sheryl was made redundant in the aftermath of the GFC. Together they’ve come through all our programs and have built Cupcake Central into a culinary destination for food savvy Melbournites. Watch a quick video about Sheryl & Thin’s successes. |
“Not only have my companies almost doubled in size, The Entourage has helped me think bigger and I am now more focused on my long term goals.” |
“I joined The Entourage last year after searching for a place I could meet like minded entrepreneurs. I had been running Zest Marketing at that stage 4 years, and had recently set up my 3rd company Zest Promotions. I was struggling to find people that I could bounce ideas off, and wanted to learn more about other industries from experts. I began the Scalable and Saleable Program in August 2011.Not only have my companies almost doubled in size, The Entourage has helped me think bigger and I am now more focused on my long term goals. Being able to relate to business owners in similar situations has taken pressure off me and learning new things has given me fresh motivation.
Since joining the Entourage Zest Possibilities has gone International, and I have started working on a new book to encourage young female entrepreneurs.” - Liz Atkinson (Zest Possiblities) |
“I had 3 personal trainers with 30 clients in Sydney. In 12 months we have grown to 100 active members, 12 trainers, a CEO and a sensational support team.” |
“For much of 2009/2010 I faced the entrepreneurs curse. Being a good trainer with strong values didn’t mean having a great business. Finding good trainers, getting more clients, working ridiculous hours, my business was running me, instead of me running it.Then in 2010 a friend told me about a convention for young entrepreneurs. I was sceptical at first saying if it was no good I was leaving at lunchtime to go to the beach. Not only did I survive till lunchtime, we stayed till the end, went to the after party, signed up for the 2 Day Entourage Entrepreneurs Course and went onto the 12 month Scalable and Saleable Program.
At the time I begun, I had 3 personal trainers with 30 clients in Sydney. In 12 months we have grown to 100 active members, 12 trainers, a CEO and a sensational support team. We have grown from personal training to now delivering group exercise and corporate health across Sydney and Melbourne. Personally I have loved my experience with the Entourage not only for the practical education about building your business but the friends and networks I have made along the way. I now feel I have made the transformation from personal trainer to entrepreneur.” - Greg Stark (Better Being Personal Training) |
“We have built Cupcake Central to a well-recognised brand within Melbourne with two retail stores in prominent locations, with a projected turnover of $2 million this financial year. |
“It was always a dream of mine to run my own business from as young as I can remember.Being involved with The Entourage is probably one of the best things we could have ever done, not just for our business but on a personal level too. Going to school and University only taught us to a certain extent of what the real world is like and never prepared us for how it would be like to run our own company, the Entourage team used real-life examples and specific topics that related to operating a successful company – topics ranged from managing growth, accountability partners to budgets/forecasts. It helped push our boundaries, think bigger and through the networks stemming from the Entourage we’ve been able to create great relationships and friendships with other like-minded entrepreneurs.
As a result, in just over one year we have built Cupcake Central to a well-recognised brand within Melbourne with two retail stores in prominent locations, with a projected turnover of $2 million this financial year. We have also expanded to other retail ventures by working alongside Schnitz and being one of their first franchisees to open a store in Melbourne. Our fourth store is currently being built and will be revealed early 2012 and will be our prototype for our next franchised retail venture.” - Sheryl Thai (Cupcake Central) |
More About The Entourage
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The Entourage is Australia’s largest group of real entrepreneurs & executives under 40.With an obsolete education system that was designed when the world was flat, we believe that people are better off learning from people with “been there, done that” experience in their chosen field.
We’re facing some serious problems on the planet. It’s becoming increasingly obvious to a growing number of people that if we are to tackle these issues we cannot rely on charities, corporations or Government. We believe that creative solutions to pressing problems will come from entrepreneurial endeavors. When you combine commerce with charity, you can begin to offer a hand up rather than a hand out. This is what is required if we are to overcome the challenges we face. The Entourage aims to inspire and develop entrepreneurs to start, build and exit high growth ventures so that we can develop the social entrepreneurs of tomorrow, and effect real change for good. |
Letter From The Managing Director
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Jack Delosa – Gen Y Entrepreneur & InvestorJack Delosa is a Gen Y entrepreneur and investor and was recently described by Sunrise as “The Young Aussie Millionaire That Didn’t Finish Uni.” Jack has been named in Australia’s top 10 entrepreneurs under 30. From having his company listed in the Fastest 50 Start-Ups in Australia, to raising over $5m for his personal clients and acquiring businesses with his panel of investors, Jack Delosa is an emerging leader for future and existing entrepreneurs. |
Our market research shows that business owners with a university degree, rated their university a 3/10 in terms of it’s effectiveness in preparing them for the business world. Although 75% of people thought entrepreneurship can be taught, 90% indicated that university is not adequately prepared to educate entrepreneurs.
With the economic climate worsening and growth slowing, we at The Entourage believe it is not governments nor corporations that are going to breath life back into economy, it is entrepreneurs.
As such The Entourage was created out of a need to connect Australia’s best entrepreneurs with Australia’s next entrepreneurs, so that we can learn from people with “been there done that” experience.
Less than two years later The Entourage is now Australia’s largest network of entrepreneurs under 40, with the movement growing at a rapid rate.
The Young Entrepreneurs Unconvention has become Australia’s largest event for entrepreneurs under 40 with over 3,500 tickets being sold in our first six events.
Business can be hard but we at The Entourage believe the difference between those who do and those don’t, is exactly that.
Welcome to the team that do.
Dream Out Loud,
Jack Delosa, MD
Why You Absolutely Cannot Miss The Unconvention
- Hear from Australia’s best entrepreneurs and learn how they succeeded
- Meet 400 young entrepreneurs (18-40) all heading up high-growth businesses
- Talk to seasoned entrepreneurs and investors to improve your business
- Take action that will make you a better business person and entrepreneur
- Build a business based on solid, proven business processes and principals
- The chance to pitch your business to the panel of judges & audience of 400
- Be part of a 4000 strong movement of young entrepreneurs.
- Seats are strictly limited by the venue, so act fast.
Get Your $87 $47 Ticket While You Can
Every Unconvention ever held has sold out well in advance of the event and this year there will be absolutely No Free Tickets of any sort.
This event is your rare opportunity to network with like-minded individuals and hear from some of Australia’s best entrepreneurs. Plus you get all this at the early bird rate of $47.
PS. The Young Entrepreneurs’ Unconvention is Australia’s largest event for entrepreneurs under 40, so don’t miss your chance to:
- Hear from Australia’s best entrepreneurs and learn how they succeeded
- Meet 400 young entrepreneurs (18-40) all heading up high-growth businesses
- Talk to seasoned entrepreneurs and investors to improve your business
- Take action that will make you a better business person and entrepreneur
- Build a business based on solid, proven business processes and principals
- The chance to pitch your business to the panel of judges & audience of 400
- Be part of a 4000 strong movement of young entrepreneurs.
- Seats are strictly limited by the venue, so act fast.
