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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Holistic regulation of P2P lending?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on March 11, 2010 • Comments

Prosper Marketplace CEO Chris Larsen welcomes a holistic regulator to encourage and support the peer-to-peer lending industry. Is such a regulator possible?

Private Prizes vs. Government Grants

by Gabriel Okolski on March 3, 2010 • Comments

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While they currently exist in a limited form, high-publicity, privately funded research prizes serve as a potential alternative to government grants.

Thoughts on alternative lending

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on February 25, 2010 • Comments

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Alternative lending forms have existed since lending began. Their specific models, practices and success may vary but all are flexible and individualized, providing opportunity to those left out of traditional lending.

A Glimpse Into the Future

by Gabriel Okolski on February 24, 2010 • Comments

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Will online airfare predictors help give travelers a break on travel costs, or will they result in fewer deals overall?

Daniel H. Kahn on social intermediaries, identity, and code-backed norms

by Jerry Brito on February 22, 2010 • Comments

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Daniel H. Kahn, a recent Harvard School of Law graduate and clerk on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, discusses social intermediaries and their potential to radically improve the social life of the Web. The discussion also turns to portable identities, code-backed norms, and trolling.

Peer-to-peer lending receives high ratings for low rates

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on February 19, 2010 • Comments

Peer-to-peer lending companies, such as Prosper and Lending Club, show how alternative lending structures can be effective and sustainable.

What’s Behind Google’s Broadband Plan?

by Gabriel Okolski on February 16, 2010 • Comments

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Is Google’s high-speed broadband network plan an entrepreneurial, competitive foray into the market or an elaborate lobbying attempt to secure government funding in the future?

Let’s Take One Giant Leap…

by Gabriel Okolski on February 2, 2010 • Comments

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President Obama’s budget is wisely cutting NASA’s expensive and delayed plan to return humans to the moon, however his solution perpetuates NASA’s fundamental problems and lack of direction.

Is Prosper prospering?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on January 28, 2010 • Comments

Prosper’s lending statistics for the end of 2009 are in and is once again lending is on the rise.

A New Meaning for “Holding Pattern”

by Gabriel Okolski on January 26, 2010 • Comments

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While consumers have expressed disgust at Ryanair’s proposed fees for onboard lavatory use, such fees may actually turn out to be beneficial for most of the airline’s passengers.

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