Business Breakthroughs and Adventures

posted by   Ian Wyatt   |    September 26, 2008

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Earlier this week at an Entrepreneur's Organization event in Washington DC, Cameron Herold introduced me to Yanik Silver. Yanik is built a successful online business (InstantSalesLetters.com) and more recently started an events business targeting entrepreneurs.

His newest company, Maverick Business Adventures, creates world class events for adventure and risk seeking entrepreneurs. The company's events combine once in a lifetime experiences with learning and experience sharing.

While speaking with Yanik, he said that most of his business breakthroughs don't come from time with others within his same industry. But rather that he is much more likely to achieve a breakthrough by spending time with a commercial real estate developer whose ideas and experiences will be new and different than his. This makes a lot of sense, and I think it is one of the things that makes Entrepreneur's Organization worthwhile for so many members. It isn't about learning from those who have done exactly what I have done before. Rather, the benefit comes from outside perspectives of those who are in different businesses and have varied experiences that I can draw upon (and vice versa).

Through Maverick Business Adventures, it appears that Yanik is providing entrepreneurs and CEOs with the opportunity to share great experiences and business ideas with other over achievers who like to combine work with fun. The 2009 calendar is posted on the web site, with some really cool events lined up for the next year, including the Olympic games in Lake Placid, Baja racing and super bowl party in Mexico, exotic and classic car road trip from NYC to Montreal with F1 race driving school, or diving with Great White Sharks and enjoying wine in northern California.

I hear the events are amazing, and plan to make it my goal in 2009 to attend one of these Maverick events.

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