1.   A conference call was arranged, and the three founders gathered at the tiny office.

2.   But others say Merrill and the other founders brought the breakup upon themselves.

3.   But the two founders pressed their point and rattled off favorable market data to support their budding business.

4.   Coyne and the other founders wanted to fight what they viewed as the pervasive influence of trial lawyers in politics, he said.

5.   David Packard, son of the other founder, also has pledged to fight the merger.

6.   Indeed, the three founders plan to keep Factrak going next fall, even though they will all be studying in Oxford, England.

7.   Jim Barnett, the other founder, left the company six years ago.

8.   Smart as the two founders were, they could not at first settle on a name for their aristocracy of intellect.

9.   TerraTherm employs seven, including the two founders.

10.   The five founders have agreed that anyone who drops out of school before graduating next March forfeits his stake in the venture.