What’s important for growing your tech startup to its first million and beyond? You’ll want to be sure to lay the foundations correctly, says Nadav Kaidar, startup entrepreneur and tech advisor, who has founded businesses and helped investors invest in others. As director of the Founder’s Institute Israel branch and CMO of the Million Business Club, Nadav has acquired significant international commercial expertise, having built firms from the bottom up, from concept to market, sales and beyond.

What Nadav sees time and time again is the importance of clarity as the end result of your process, crucial both for building your start up and for marketingit. Once you’ve clearly defined and built your brand, content, infrastructure and system – then you can build a strong marketing campaign upon that solid foundation.

Join us for episode 26 of Let’s Clarify It, in which Nadav shares:

What he finds motivational speaker Eric Thomas and entrepreneur Gary V. have in common, despite their distinct styles?

In what way does the FDA practically encourage analogies as shortcuts?

And what are the implications for tech entrepreneurs, as people largely only skim headlines anymore?

Curious? Let’s Clarify It!

Nadav Kaidar

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“Can you help make our employees more creative please? We’d like them to take ownership and become more motivated!” These are the types of calls Karl Raats receives from companies trying sincerely to get from point A to point B in terms of their creativity. Karl, whose daughter, back when she was little, defined that “daddy teaches grown-ups how to have nice ideas”, helps these companies understand first and foremost that they need clarity on what getting to B even looks like and how they’ll know they’ve gotten there before they can develop strategies and act on them. And with his vast experience as a corporate creative thinking coach, moderator and workshop facilitator, he knows it’s often the managers and not just their employees who desperately need the training…

Creative isn’t something you are, it’s something you do, shares Karl, so you’re looking to develop this ability in people, rather than identifying those who are “the most creative ones”. And in terms of the environment, you’ll know you’ve created a space where people feel safe to try things – and make mistakes – if they can recall someone who’s made a mistake and ascertain where that person is now, whether they’re happy and whether they’ve since turned into a cautionary tale…

Join us for episode 25 of Let’s Clarify It, in which Karl shares:

What can civil engineers and vascular surgeons learn from one another and how can we all go from abstract to “bringing it into the room”?

What happened when Karl set out to become a living experiment in creativity?

And why we should all be asking ourselves: what is the horse’s ass in our organization, if we want to be innovating?

Curious? Let’s Clarify It!

Karl Raats

I was destined to become a rhinoceros. A secret I entrusted my brother with when I was five after our dad had slapped me on the wrist for playing in the dirt, again. A little later I redirected my efforts towards becoming a goalkeeper. Down in the dirt again, even more laundry but slightly more socially acceptable.
Eventually I become a journalist. And after that a business developer. And then a marketing director. And a teacher after that. Or, as a client of mine once reframed it, ‘Karl, you have the most astounding portfolio CV.’

And all of a sudden, there she was, the professional love of my life: creative thinking. Ever since that day I’ve been wallowing in corporate creativity’s horn of plenty, shamelessly, like a five-year-old that knows becoming a rhinoceros is the greatest possible good. Hands just as dirty, less laundry this time around.

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Have you ever heard of Operations Research? Neither had I, until meeting the wonderful Professor, Nicole Adler, dean of Hebrew University Business School here in Jerusalem. Operations Research and optimization are at the heart of diverse innovation, from medical instrumentation to navigation technologies. As Nicole beautifully clarified it herself: it’s the math of the science of better. And throughout her exciting career, she researches, teaches and applies it especially in the global transportation industry.

In our conversation, which made me want to become one of Nicole’s students (despite being the very poster girl for “finished school terrified of math” as Nicole points out is the unnecessary but all too common case for so many), Nicole demonstrates how Operations Research can help individual businesses, the market at large, the private and public sectors benefit society, companies, employees and consumers.  From optimizing the price of externalities in aviation to consulting to 52 Norwegian airports to writing a thesis on British Airways – there’s a wealth of knowledge to be learned from this accomplished researcher who is herself terrified of getting on planes…

Join us for episode 24 of Let’s Clarify It, in which Nicole shares:

How you can consult effectively to managers even when it’s not fun for them to be benchmarked

Why she’s just obsessed with infrastructure;

And what she foresees will unfold in light of the automated vehicle revolution?

Curious? Let’s Clarify It!