Counting down to the first court date

The court is scheduled to hear a Motion For An Order Granting Class Certification, Appointing Class Representative, And Class Counsel on in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 7, 2008.
      

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Fred93’s January 2009 update on late loans

While slightly off-topic, Prosper lender Fred93 (a top lender and a resourceful community participant whose wide-ranging contributions Prosper has pretty much ignored), provides a monthly update on the rate of new loans going late on Prosper.com.
While always informative and insightful, the January 2009 update strikes me as particularly poignant.
You can read it here.
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Mr. Kagle has been served

It looks like Robert (Bob) Kagle has been served.
We eagerly await news of any responses being filed with the court by the assorted defendants.
      

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Chris Larsen discusses fraud prevention

While we wait for further legal developments, here is an interesting video featuring Prosper co-founder Chris Larsen discussing fraud prevention.
      

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Defendants are being serviced

It looks like the Prosper lenders are able to do what what Prosper has been unable to do…serve their defendants.
I hope the court will soon post more underlying documents.
      

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New motion filed with the court

Earlier today, additional filings were made with California Superior Court in the case related to Prosper Marketplace, specifically a notice of motion for an order granting class certification, appointing class representative, and class counsel.
Hearing has been set for January 7, 2009.
      

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Old Witchel interview with Dave Taylor

I had not seen this interview until today. As one would expect Witchel re-affirms the position that Prosper is in compliance with all applicable regulations.
I also found the comments pretty interesting.
      

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BREAKING NEWS: Prosper files amended S-1 with the SEC

Prosper Marketplace has made a new S-1 filing with the SEC.
As a point of interest, the S-1 filing includes the following statements:
(page 25):
On November 26, 2008, a class action lawsuit was filed against us the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, California.  The suit was brought on behalf of all loan note purchasers in [...]

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How about it, Mr. Giedgowd?

Over the years, lenders on Prosper.com have regularly been stunned by what has been widely perceived a long and consistent string of poor legal choices - and the topic of Prosper’s legal competence is frequently a target of ridicule at Prospers.org.
We don’t often hear from Ed Giedgowd, Prosper’s General Counsel.  In fact, he does not [...]

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Lenders put Prosper.com on notice in June 2008

In light of what appears to be an ongoing effort by Prosper Marketplace to remove potentially incriminating information from their blog, it is worth noting that legal counsel retained by a group of Prosper lenders put Prosper Marketplace on notice already back in June of 2008, instructing Prosper to preserve myriad types of potential evidence.
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Prosper deleting key blog entries?

There are reports that Prosper employees are in the process of deleting key entries from their blog.
Having grown accustomed to such shenanigans, savvy lenders at Prospers.org archived the original content before Prosper had a chance to delete it.
Specifically, this incident relates to two blog entries by Doug Fuller.
In order to secure public access to these [...]

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Crowdsourced predictions for Prosper’s future

The people at Predictify are mulling the future of Prosper Marketplace.
As of Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 61% of the respondents (in this unscientific poll) believe Prosper.com will declare bankruptcy.
Among users ranked as “guru,” bankruptcy is predicted by 73% of respondents.
      

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Checking on MyC4 late loans

Lenders at MyC4.com do not have an easy task, when trying to check which of their loans are late on the repayments. The account page does not offer a comprehensive overview page. If a lender really wanted to check in detail he has to click through to the detail page of each loan he invested [...]

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Millionaire Dating Blog

I happened across a millionaire dating blog the other day. The blog is an extension of the Seeking Millionaire website, except that it seems an after-thought - it doesn’t match the Seeking Millionaire website.
The Seeking Millionaire website is nothing new. It’s one of those websites where they match up beautiful girls and guys [...]

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Make a Million with Credit Cards?

Someone asked me the other day what things he could to do start becoming a millionaire today. I decided to take something simple as an example… credit cards. Yes, credit cards… those things that cost people billions of dollars in interest and fees every year. He was astounded. “How can credit [...]

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Do You Need To Think Like a Millionaire?

In the past, I had written about one could, get the millionaire mindset. But what if you didn’t have to have a particular millionaire mindset? What if you could simply think positively about being a millionaire? Could you become a millionaire? That’s what Foolswealth says about Forming Your Beliefs as a [...]

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Do You Need To Think Like a Millionaire?

In the past, I had written about one could, get the millionaire mindset. But what if you didn’t have to have a particular millionaire mindset? What if you could simply think positively about being a millionaire? Could you become a millionaire? That’s what Foolswealth says about Forming Your Beliefs as a [...]

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Will Astrology Help You Become a Millionaire?

I was reading this article on astrology and Internet Millionaires. I had never thought there was a possible connection between Astrology and being a millionaire.
Think about it for a minute. Being born at a certain time may dictate your success in life? I think that’s crazy. Then again, I couldn’t follow [...]

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Will Astrology Help You Become a Millionaire?

I was reading this article on astrology and Internet Millionaires. I had never thought there was a possible connection between Astrology and being a millionaire.
Think about it for a minute. Being born at a certain time may dictate your success in life? I think that’s crazy. Then again, I couldn’t follow [...]

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Will Astrology Help You Become a Millionaire?

I was reading this article on astrology and Internet Millionaires. I had never thought there was a possible connection between Astrology and being a millionaire.
Think about it for a minute. Being born at a certain time may dictate your success in life? I think that’s crazy. Then again, I couldn’t follow [...]

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Will Astrology Help You Become a Millionaire?

I was reading this article on astrology and Internet Millionaires. I had never thought there was a possible connection between Astrology and being a millionaire.
Think about it for a minute. Being born at a certain time may dictate your success in life? I think that’s crazy. Then again, I couldn’t follow [...]

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Will Astrology Help You Become a Millionaire?

I was reading this article on astrology and Internet Millionaires. I had never thought there was a possible connection between Astrology and being a millionaire.
Think about it for a minute. Being born at a certain time may dictate your success in life? I think that’s crazy. Then again, I couldn’t follow [...]

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Credit Card Debt is Stopping You From Becoming a Millionaire?

I hear the story everyday. People say that they could be millionaires without a doubt… if they could just find a way to get out of their credit card debt. As usual, I try to give them a few tips to get things under control. These are just a few of the [...]

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Can You Become a Millionaire From an Ebook Quickly?

I happened across an unusual video yesterday. The video was simply a series of screens with text reading that a person became a millionaire in a month with only 10$. Yes, the dollar sign was in the wrong place. If the idea didn’t sound crazy enough, multiple errors will tell you it’s [...]

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Can You Become a Millionaire From an Ebook Quickly?

I happened across an unusual video yesterday. The video was simply a series of screens with text reading that a person became a millionaire in a month with only 10$. Yes, the dollar sign was in the wrong place. If the idea didn’t sound crazy enough, multiple errors will tell you it’s [...]

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Millionaire Memoir

I’ve been tagged by Lazy Man and Money to write a six-word memoir for myself… This is such a new site and I have so many different thoughts going on that I’m not sure how to put six words on where I’ve been (or where I want to go)… wait, I can put [...]

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Get The Millionaire Mindset

Ginger of Girls Just Want To Have Funds picks apart the millionaire mindset. We have a few things in common. One might be a love for Cyndi Lauper (I’m making an assumption here), and the other is a desire to be a millionaire.
How to Become a Millionaire
Ginger has read books like How to [...]

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  • Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Millionaire? Every year, thousands of people become millionaires, while hundreds of thousands struggle to make ends meet. What is the difference between the two groups? In many cases, it comes down to whether or not you have what it takes to be a millionaire. While this may seem like oversimplification, there......

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How Not To Become a Millionaire

Kevin of No Debt Plan gives his take on how to avoid becoming a millionaire. It seems so easy and so many people are doing it, I don’t know if we really need instructions ;-). His tips are pretty basic.
Here are some tips for <b>how not</b> to…
…Become a Millionaire at Work
In essence you [...]

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More Marrying Rich for Millions

Heather Mills’ divorce settlement came through today. She’ll get 24.3 million pounds - the equivalent of nearly 50 million dollars. It’s seems to me that 12 million a year for a four year marriage is pretty generous - too generous in my opinion. She’ll walk away in the top one percent of [...]

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Selling Yourself for Millions?

I had written about how celebrity can make you millions and marrying rich can for millions. What I haven’t written about is how to use a loose combination of both can work… until now…
If you haven’t been following the Elliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, the name Ashley Alexandra Dupre is foreign to you. [...]

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Financial Rules of Thumb Stink

Everyone loves a good rule of thumb. Knowing that the number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds plus 37 is the approximate temperature [1] is great . I usually do the old 100 plus my age comparison when I get my blood pressure checked as well. These ballpark estimates are easy to [...]

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A Million is Not Enough

I just read an article that says a million is not enough money in England. The article says that you need at least 5.8 million pounds to be part of the “comfortable rich.” Personally I think I would feel pretty comfortable with a mere 5.7 million pounds.
The report goes on to say that [...]

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Get Millions By Marriage Follow-up

Last week, I wrote about Bravo’s The Millionaire Matchmaker. It looks like the season is over. While I didn’t catch an episode, I did catch this report on the ending.
I wanted to highlight a two minute clip available here. The rich bachelor ended up proposing. She gave a pretty mediocre “maybe”, [...]

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Million Dollar Baby Pictures

One of the great things about being famous is that you can often print your own money. Sometimes you don’t even need to be that famous or do anything significant. It seems that People magazine may have paid over a million dollars for pictures of Nicole Ritchie’s Baby.
I find this pretty absurd. [...]

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Reports on Prosper Days 2008

Prosper Days 2008 took place Monday and Tuesday. Judging from the impressions of attending lenders, who blogged about it, it was a well organised event, but for seasoned lenders there were few news announced. No news about the long awaited secondary market. One blogger sees the Bidding via API function as highlight. Further news is that Prosper will start suing borrowers who defaulted [...]

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