Archive for March, 2008
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RSS Feed Problems
Some of my RSS subscribers may notice multiple versions of the same article and some articles from the Prosper blog showing up in my feed. As you may have noticed, I’m trying to bring my own articles written for Prosper into Lazy Man and Money (I have their permission for this). Unfortunately, there are some [...]
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The Complete Guide To Prosper Book On Sale Today
Sean Bauer’s “The Complete Guide To Prosper.com” is on sale today. As part of the promotion, anyone who buys the book today from this site will receive a $900 value in electronic books. I contributed 5 posts which you can read here in the form of a PDF. The promotional company pressed me for a [...]
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What Is Social Capital?
When I was at Prosper’s annual conference, there was a lot of buzz around the term “social capital.” I thought I was alone in wondering what it was. However, when I caught up with Wealth Boy, I found that he hadn’t heard the term used before. I’m going to go out on a limb and [...]
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Alternative Income Streams – March 2008
I’m a little later than usual with the report this month. The weekend threw me off and I wanted to get yesterday’s Lending Club news out. It looks like I can’t put off reporting my alternative income progress any longer. For the second time in two months this income has been a bit of a [...]
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Lending Club Loans Reach 8 Figures
Lending Club reached an important milestone having reached $10,000,000 in loans originated. According to the stats, they have no loans defaulted (120 or more days late). That seems like an amazing statistic with 1214 loans out there. However, from this chart of originations by month, a large number of their loans are relatively new. Still [...]
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Weekend Links – Getting Kicked and Hit Around Edition
It was a rough week emotionally for the Lazy Man. I felt that I got hit and kicked around a little bit. So on Friday night, the wife and I went out and did some hitting and kicking. Specifically we went out to Maverick, a restaurant owned by Scott Youkilis – the brother of Red [...]