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Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

quick loan — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:32:38 -0000

Microloans are for businesses that would otherwise not qualify for the loan, due to limited or unproven credit ratings score. You may still need to provide financial information, credit ratings report, business and marketing plans to be considered for a Microloan.

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

Kamolindu Karmokar — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:51:19 -0000

We are an NGO involved in microcredit and other educational activities.We have partnership agreement with Kiva and we gained a lot from. It is really wonderful that Globefunder is going launch a great program including asia countries- Like Bangladesh. Thank you for your assistance.

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

Tim — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:04:23 -0000

Check out the GlobeFunder plan on YouTube:

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Also, please see our latest interim site at www.globefunder.com
Click 'sign up' to stay updated on the latest at GlobeFunder

Tim
GlobeFunder Team

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

P2P-Banking.com — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:26:06 -0000

See the earlier interview P2P-Banking.com conducted with Globefunder CEO Brian Mullally:
http://www.wiseclerk.com/gr...

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

Social Lending Watch — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:30:18 -0000

We recently published an exclusive interview with Brian Mullally prior to this news about their investment. You can read it at Social Lending Watch: http://www.sociallendingwat...

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

Amish Shah — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:01:43 -0000

Think about it....1 billion + people with little to no access to capital.
A way to get cash to these people through an efficient market and capital.
Prosper has validated the use of social (peer to peer) lending through a web based portal domestically and there is plenty of room for more in this space, especially internationally.
Globe Funder is on track. Eventaully large banks will pay a premium to get this distribution and these companies will be worth a fortune.

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

Ben Decio — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:34:00 -0000

GlobeFunder offers a different approach than Kiva - market driven interest rates for investors - the idea is not to become Kiva or Prosper....both have done well to show the possibility of person-to-person lending...When the GlobeFunder launch occurs both in the US and our first international country (both slated for October launch)...the value propostion to both GlobeFunder's investors and borrowers, will be immediately apparent, scalable, and unique. Check back in a few weeks as we begin to discuss the latest happenings with GlobeFunder as we move closer to our October launch date. Thanks.

Ben Decio
President and Co-Founder
GlobeFunder

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

Pablo — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:18:29 -0000

Sorry, i forgot to include a link to Kiva;

http://www.kiva.org/about/p...

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

Pablo H. — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:16:38 -0000

Sorry, forgot to include a link to Kiva:

http://www.kiva.org/about/p...

Re: GlobeFunder, social lending and microfinance here and abroad

Pablo H. — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:13:44 -0000

I think the'rey really bennefiting from the popularity of Kiva - a microloan portal started out of Stanford. Kiva has received a huge amount of attention and press over the last 18 months - including op-eds praising them in the NYT and WSJ.

It wouldn't surprise me if Omidyar or Skoll where to inject some money thier way. Many eBay alumni really relate with the peer-to-peer microloan approach.