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.

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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.

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