Category: Constellation Capital

My Little Unicorn By Stuart Hillston   Once upon a time, in a world quite unlike our own, there was a young horse called Bob. Young Bob cared about one thing, and one thing only – Unicorns. When he grew up he just knew he was going to be a Unicorn and so he thought about…

The Two Hunters By Stuart Hillston   Once upon a time, in a world quite unlike our own, there were two hunters called Rabbie and Ellie. The hunters lived alone, each in a home next door to each other. The next nearest person lived a hundred miles away. In this world animals were plentiful, and…

The second most frequent question I’m asked is “What is the difference between a coach and a mentor?” I’m asked this because I am a mentor. I’m other things too as you will see, including a coach, but this question comes up time and again, and the answers I’ve heard others give have made me…

What a great day in Leicester yesterday! I was invited by the marvellous Edwina Goodwin to be a panel member for Fox’s Lair!® – De Montfort University’s panel format for judging of Year 1 pitches in the Leicester Business School. I attended what was Leicester Poly as a student at the end of the 70s.…

Instead of all the incessant “only a genius can solve this” type posts, which can be easily solved if you know the mathematical order of operations,  I thought I’d share a simple maths puzzle which seemed to confuse a start-up I was helping yesterday. I totally understand why, and I simply helped them understand the…

On September 24th I will be presenting at the Digital Leaders Trends Briefings 2015 on the topic of technologies set to impact on business. Ahead of this event I had to reflect on what I have seen recently and what I have learned. In an average week (when do we have one of those?) I…

In the early 1970s, British Railways ran excursion trains at weekends for families to get away for the day. For the most part they went to known destinations, but there were also “mystery trains” where you knew the duration of the journey but not the destination. In 1972, my family (Mum, Dad, Sister & I)…

This is the final part in a six part set of blogs about “how not to raise money for your start-up”. The grim stories you read here are based on real life events – meetings and conversations I have had over the years, and will no doubt form the basis for my next book. So…

This is the fifth in a six part set of blogs about “how not to raise money for your start-up”. The grim stories you read here are based on real life events – meetings and conversations I have had over the years, and will no doubt form the basis for my next book.   So…