Who Is Alex Slutsker?

Who I am

My name is Alexander Slutsker. I am a business consultant in Israel, and Mobius Business Solutions is my practice. I sit with business owners on finance, marketing, operations and growth, and on the decisions that come out of them. I work in Hebrew, English and Russian, remotely, with owners anywhere in the country.

Where this comes from

When I was a child my parents opened three businesses, in three different fields. I watched them work and the work was good. What never arrived was a customer. The distributors would not take what they made, and it was not the product that was wrong. Nobody had ever taught them the rules of the business that has to sit around a product.

That is what I decided to stand against. A person with real skill in their hands should be able to build something out of it that lasts longer than they do.

The longer version, and what I believe because of it, is on the about page.

How I got here

I took two degrees in business, one in marketing and finance, one in entrepreneurship and hi-tech, because I wanted the rules of the game written down in front of me instead of guessed at.

Alongside them I always had projects of my own running, from an early age, and I kept turning up inside other people's. Friends first, then friends of friends, then startups. Usually with the same sentence. You have a problem, let me solve it, I want to learn and I want the experience.

So I started as the person who solves the problem in front of him, and went deeper from there, into the numbers under the problem, the process under the numbers, and the decisions that set the process. That is where my credibility comes from.

What I do for an owner

I am the business owner's partner in the decisions. Not the manager, not the boss. The business is yours and so is every decision in it. My side of the table is the finance, the marketing, the operations, the growth and the bad months too, so that the business keeps growing, stands more steadily, carries less risk and keeps more of what it earns, while you go on doing the work you are actually good at.

The other half of it is teaching. As we go, I teach you the language of business, of finance, of marketing, of operations. Not terms to repeat back, the meaning underneath them. The owner of a pizza shop should be able to hold a conversation at the same level as the head of an international company, because understanding what stands behind those words is what lets you see an opening that everyone else walks past.

What working with me looks like

It starts by naming the problem. Not the loudest one, the one that is actually holding the business back. A first conversation is where that gets named and the work gets shaped around it.

From there you get the goals in an order you can follow, so you always know what is being worked on now, what comes after it, and how you will know it worked. Alongside that comes a structure, and for every recurring job a written procedure, an SOP (standard operating procedure, the step by step way the job gets done). That is the unglamorous part, and it is what takes risk out of the business and stops the same fire starting twice.

It does not end at a document either. A business keeps moving, the decisions keep coming, and I am there for the ones after this one.

The facts

9+ years of experience in business consulting. A BBA in marketing and finance, and an MBA in entrepreneurship and hi-tech. I have helped entrepreneurs open small businesses and startups. I work with self-employed professionals, small businesses and startups, in beauty and wellness, the trades, food, retail, manufacturing, education, hi-tech and real estate investment, in Israel and abroad.

Further down this page you will find lectures I have given, certificates from courses and programmes I completed, letters of appreciation from organisations I lectured for, and recommendations from people I have worked with.

Who I work with, and where to start

Entrepreneurs, self employed people, small businesses and startups, anywhere in Israel, in Hebrew, English or Russian. If you want to see whether this fits your business, talk it through with me. The first conversation is free.

For the longer version of who I am, read the about page. For how the work is structured, read strategic and ongoing business consulting. For the method it starts with, read business diagnosis.

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