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How a Bad Roommate Sparked a Dorm-Room StartupRoommateFit, an online matching software modeled after online dating sites, grew out of Justin Mares' bad roommate experience his freshman year.

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Problem solver:RoommateFit's Justin Mares.
Problem solver:RoommateFit's Justin Mares.
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Just weeks after moving into the dorms at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, Justin Mares started thinking about transferring. The problem wasn't his professors or his classes. It was his roommate.

"He was unhappy and antisocial, the classic horrible roommate," recalls Mares, 22. "It really showed me how a bad match impacted the experience I had at school."

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