Dr Harriet Treacy needed advice. So, just before Christmas 2021, She sat down with her mentor John Purdy, a successful entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Ergo in 1993. Ergo began as a two-man retailer of printer cartridges and is today one of the country’s largest technology services businesses. Meanwhile, its financial services spin-off, Finergo, is today valued at more than $1 billion.   Treacy was blunt. She was battling to get her start-up off the ground and told Purdy as much. “I said to John: ‘I don’t think we have a business here,’” Treacy recalled.  With her co-founder Peter Lumley,…

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