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Three Carnegie Mellon University students hatch an idea for a new business in a dorm room and wind up turning to the University of Pittsburgh for a leg up.

It may sound like an unlikely storyline, but it’s one that the founders of North Point Breeze-based Inpleo LLC are turning to their advantage in launching their company outside the walls of academia. Inpleo’s experience at Pitt’s Innovation Institute also reflects the university’s ongoing reboot of its entrepreneurial mission under chancellor Patrick Gallagher.

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