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Please nominate Prosper as the Best Overall Startup at the Crunchies Awards!  Continue reading Nominate Prosper as Best Overall Startup at the Crunchies Awards!

Prosper News Updates:

November 11, 2009
Fast Company: Peer-to-Peer Lending Explained: Brother, Can You Spare $100? By Lydia Dishman

Continue reading Prosper’s Media Roundup – 11/17/2009

Effective today, Prosper welcomes back Kansas Borrowers – we are now open for business for again. Continue reading Kansas now is open to Borrowers!

We are pleased to inform our community that Nigel W. Morris, Co-Founder of Capital One, has joined Prosper’s Board of Directors and his venture capital firm, QED Investors, has invested in the company.

By way of background,  Nigel Morris co-founded Capital One in the early 1990’s, and during his ten-year tenure, Capital One’s customer base grew to over 40 million, managed loans increased to more than $70 billion and the company emerged as one of the top seven issuers of MasterCard and Visa credit cards in the world.

Continue reading Prosper receives investment in company

In today’s tight business-for-sale marketplace, an owner’s willingness to finance the sale gives him an edge over the competition. But owner financing isn’t for the faint of heart. To stay on track, sellers need to follow some obvious – and some not so obvious – dos and don’ts. Continue reading Part 7 of 7: The Dos and Don’ts of Seller Financing