Fast Company has named Prosper a Fast 50 2008.  The acknowledgement is in the March issue and on their website.

What if people could borrow and lend money to each other without any banks in the middle? That’s the idea behind two-year-old Prosper.com.

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The idea melds the debt market with online social networking. Lenders can log on to browse a list of prospective borrowers, and fund all or part of the applications they find intriguing. Since its founding, Prosper has facilitated the funding of more than $120 million in loans, averaging just over $6,000 each; in 2007, loans averaged $7,000. Prosper makes its money by charging fees to both sides of the deal.

The Prosper Blog is pleased and honored to have won the 2007 Performancing Readers Choice Award for “Best use of a Corporate Blog.”  Other excellent blogs in our division — Southwest Airline’s Official Blog (Runner-up Reader’s Choice), Matt Cutts/GoogleGuy (Editor’s Choice), Dreamhost (Runner-up Editor’s Choice), Zillow Blog, and Garmin Blog.    

LoanChimp wrote a 2 part series on Why Prosper is So Addictive?: Financial Voyeurism and Tales from dis-Crypt-tion.

Freakonomics (Keynote Speaker at Prosper Days) asks Is Space Exploration Worth the Cost? A Freakonomics Quorum

The Digerati Life tells us how to Get Rid Of Your Debt With These Debt Defying Strategies.

Lazy Man and Money tells us the Seven Things You Must Do to Prepare for An Emergency.

Me vs Debt asks Hey Prosper Lenders! Question from a Borrower…

NetBanker analyzes the recent borrower pricing change Prosper Increases its Loan Fee by 100%

RateLadder wants more from traditional media P2P Lending Article in BusinessWeek.

Blogging Away Debt inspires with a story Debt Free at Age 28.

GenXFinance helps with Current Market Conditions Encourage Bad Decisions - Don’t Make The Same Mistakes.

brip blap is working on learning how to let go.

The Frugal Law Student tells us about student loan refunds in What To Do With Those Loan Refunds…

Mrs. Micah reasons It’s Hard to Upsell Someone Who Isn’t There 

Money Ning wonders if you Consider Your Primary Home as an Investment

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RateLadder is the Editor-in-Chief of the Prosper Blog.  He 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.

The Prosper Blog (First post date 11/1/2007 and a launch date of 12/5/2007) has been has been nominated for a 2007 Performancing Reader’s Choice Award for Best Use of a Corporate Blog. We are honored. Please vote early and often.

LazyMan hosted the Carnival of Peer-To-Peer Lending #1.  We were proud to be part of the carnival thanks to Mike of Prosperous Land (Diggin’ For Gold Around The Portfolios).  In addition, there were several articles in the carnival we enjoyed very much…

• Prosper Vintage Curves From Private Data (Updated Curves: Prosper Vintage Curve Update — 1/1/2008)
• Credit crisis has given social lending a friendly pat on the back?
• Pre-Payment Pays Off: New Feature for Prosper Borrowers
• review of the best in peer-to-peer lending in 2007
• Five Investment Prerequisites to P2P Lending

Lazy Man and Money (a regular contributor to this blog) has also been been nominated for 2007 Performanceing Reader’s Choice Award for The Best Business/Money Blogs.  Congratulations LazyMan.

The Digerati Life had a great fundamental investing article Why Most Investors Don’t Make Money In The Stock Market.

GenXFinance wrote an interesting article Record Oil and Gas Prices Got You Down? Use This Opportunity Make Money

Brip Blap is developing a millionaire mindset.

Blogging Away Debt wonders What Would You Do With $185,000?

Me vs Debt (a Prosper borrower) has several great articles on Prosper. 

Moolanomy talked about his Foray into Prosper as a P2P Lender

My Two Dollars tells us Top Three Legal Documents Every Person Should Have. 

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RateLadder is the Editor-in-Chief of the Prosper Blog.  He 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.

Prosper was nominated for a Crunchie in the category of Best Business Model.

The Crunchies is a collaboration project between GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch. 

The 2007 Crunchies is our first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.

Prosper is honored by the nomination.

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