As its director, Jodi Goldstein, explained to me in a July 30 interview, HIL brings together students from across Harvard to work on start-up projects rent-free while tapping a network of experts.

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What makes Dearing happy is working with small start-up teams on projects that matter to the world, with people who are underdogs.

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Other projects include Blue Origin, a start-up run by Amazon.com Inc.

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Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey said many social TV start-ups will likely get gobbled up and their ideas brought into bigger projects.

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Unlike Kickstarter that focuses solely on creative projects, a new group of up-start companies are attempting to fill the void in funding opportunities within niche market segments.

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After receiving a history degree from George Mason University, I co-founded Earlyman Technologies, LLC (EMT) a start-up incubator that focused on helping business leaders, inventors and entrepreneurs to breath life into their projects.

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