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A revolution is happening in the world of entrepreneurs with ideas for the next million dollar enterprise. This revolution is aimed at the inventor or small business person that just needs the seed capital to develop a prototype or working model of their idea to take to the next trade show. Many of these entrepreneurs need less than a few thousand dollars to get started, but can't get financing because of past credit or the product idea is to new for traditional financing. For these entrepreneurs that just need a few thousand dollars to get their project started; Prosper.com is the answer to getting the financing they need. Prosper is the leading online community for people to people lending. Borrow or lend money in a secure P2P loan marketplace.Who needs banks when you've got Prosper? Peer-to-peer lending sites are drawing more borrowers and lenders who prefer to make their deals directly with each other. Sites like prosper.com and circlelending.com have facilitated millions of dollars in loans$85.5 million and $200 million in loans, respectively. Lendingclub.com integrated with social-networking site facebook.com early in the summer and says it arranged $500,000 in loans in its first seven weeks.
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