The discussion about whether or not to work under the Raxa Collective name had already been a couple hundred hours long as of early March, 2011. Emotions were at full tilt on this and that consideration when a team showed up and got us to the tipping point. Lindsay and Nicole were perfectly balanced, for these purposes, between interested and disinterested. Not to mention interesting. And sometimes very interesting.

Credit where credit is due.  The fellow who founded Cornell University, from which (by some measure) we have had the most inputs for this venture, and the fellow who is credited with the decision by which Amherst College came to exist, can take a momentary bow to the fellows who represent the namesake of the business school at Dartmouth College, the funding of that business school, and (for our purposes here) most importantly the fellow who funded the initiative that brought Lindsay and Nicole to work with us and convince us of our convictions.