The collection of links this week comprises a list of reads for small businesses and those looking to start a small business. Several articles discuss investors and start-up money. Browse the other categories to read about lending, banking, and stocks.

Peer-to-Peer Lending:
• Learn how P2P lending’s popularity surges over at Seo(X)Factor.
• Tiny Crunch Newswire writes Washington Mutual Bites The Dust. Will The Financial Crisis Lead To An Increase In P2P Lending? What do you think?
• Building of Banks, by Lending Club, in which bank building sounds like Starbucks buildings.

Stocks and the Banking Industry:
• Forbes presents The Bailout: An Owner’s Manual.
• Fear Factor Slams Stocks says Yahoo! Money.
• Read Business Week’s article BofA to Lehman: Where’s Our Money?

Small Business:
• CNN Money writes about where you can find investors.
• Are You Ready to Start a Business? Try Small Business Administration’s tool to find out!
• Here are 3 Honest Ways to Raise Startup Money written by Entrepreneur.com
• New York Times’ asks Betting Your Retirement on Your Start-Up?
• US Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship says SBA Administration Creates Roadblocks for Women-Owned Businesses.

Prosper Gets Mentioned:
• The Arizona Republic in stave off money panic by helping the needy.
• Looking for a loan? Try peer-to-peer network, at The Economic Times.
• The Wall Street Journal under Small Business Financing in how to cope with the credit crunch.
• Red Orbit with Web Communities for Money Management, Borrowing Gain Currency Net Gains.
• WCBSTV.com mentions Prosper in peer-to-peer lending growing in popularity on web.
• Get fast money in a slow economy by ABC’s Michael Finney.
• TV Commercial for Prosper Borrower and Lender at Bliptv.

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RateLadder is a Prosper lender and has been since July, 2006. He has a passion for p2p lending. He owns RateLadder — My Prosper.com Journey and other P2P Lending Adventures, P2P No Bank the P2P Blog Aggregate, and ProProsper — Professional Tools for Prosper Lenders featuring SQL access to Prosper data.