The most consistent goal was to create a crowd funding platform for student projects, but it never really got there.
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Earlier in the funding chain, US-based Kickstarter, the world's largest crowd-funding platform for creative projects, has just launched in London.
From its results and our personal familiarity, we set the stage for our pioneering programming platform with novel projects like Operation Honor Cards and our groundbreaking public service announcements (PSAs) to help prevent military family suicides.
Joanna Ellis from The Literary Platform talked about the some book projects that bridge the digital-physical divide and use data in interesting ways.
Well, an RSS platform can help employees collaborate on projects.
For example t his week Kickstarter announced it will never become an equity investment platform, and in Europe Seeds insists on its projects having a strong social dimension.
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Fronteer announced that drilling by Newmont USA Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining, has intersected additional bonanza-grade, near-surface oxide gold at Sandman, one of three high-quality Nevada gold projects in Fronteer's future production platform.
He pitches the platform to public safety dispatch centers that usually put the projects out to bid.
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Its authors said the plan will provide a platform to bid for funding for that and other transport projects.
The platform lets people define what causes they care about, create projects, reach out to their networks, raise money and track their impact over their lifetimes.
This does not mean GigaSpaces will abandon the platform-independent version of its software, but it does mean encouraging new customers--or existing customers launching new projects--to consider Cisco UCS as a platform with significant advantages for grid or cloud-style applications.
Also, as we saw with Microsoft and are now seeing with Google, platform companies can either become complacent and not regularly upgrade their technology, or they get distracted with side projects that also draw resources from their core offering.
When you consider the fact that just a quarter of design- and technology-based Kickstarter projects deliver their goals on time, then it becomes clear that it may not be a viable platform for those who are in pursuit of reliable financial returns.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the driving force behind a new effort to harness biology as a manufacturing platform.
This transaction creates a stable platform for long term growth and allows Finavera to recycle capital and fund the ongoing development of its remaining portfolio of projects.
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