29May 2026

Top tips for Budding Entrepreneurs

'10 Minute Tip' by Stuart Hardy - Entrepreneur and Business Leader - 7am until 9:30am

Stuart Hardy Managing director of Hexion Data Storage is an experienced business leader and entrepreneur with over two decades of success driving technology-driven enterprises' development, scaling, and profitability. Stuart has a strong track record in sales, marketing, and product strategy across leading companies.

Stuart has built and transformed businesses by pioneering innovative solutions in the Internet, communications infrastructure, NaaS, SSE, and MVNO spaces.

Since 2003 Stuart has started four business. Two have been sold to listed ICT services companies. All of these businesses were successful, but they all came with difficult lessons. Stuart’s tips for entrepreneurs is an opportunity to avoid expensive mistakes that can cost you time and money.

Stuart works well with business owners and early stage business start up founders.


About the conversation:

Top tips for budding entrepreneurs.

Many people want to be an entrepreneur.

Stuart Hardy is an experienced entrepreneur. He will share a practical look at what it means to start a business, with up to fifteen very quick fire tips on what you need to consider when starting, scaling and eventually exiting from your business venture.

The tips will be useful to any size business and include important decisions as a business owner. If you haven’t learnt these lessons already through experience, exposure to them could save you a lot of time.