Mint, Prosper, Zillow, and Kiva are Crunchie Finalists (NetBanker)

Four online finance companies are finalists in the Crunchies, an awards program sponsored by three major tech blogs: TechCrunch, GigaOM, Read/WriteWeb, and VentureBeat.

Mint is one of five finalists in Most Likely to Succeed (here)
Prosper is one of five in Best (new) Business Model (here)
Zillow is one of five in the Best Consumer Startup (here) and Best Overall (here)
Kiva is one of five in Most Likely to Make the World a Better Place (here)

Winners will be determined by a tally of votes at the site between Dec. 21 and Jan 10.

2 Comments

By Don Stryker on January 3, 2008 7:05 AM

I believe you missed a bet by not including Jwaala on the list of five most likly to succeed businesses. Jwaala is like Mint and Wesabe, only they work with banks and Credit Unions to put that functionality on the bank's web sites. My thoughts are folks already have a realtionship with a bank and know banks must be secure by law due to handling money. I believe Jwaala will be successful faster than the others.

Don Stryker

By Anonymous

on January 3, 2008 9:58 AM

@Don

I agree with you. Jwaala would be a the top of my list for "most likely to succeed." We didn't have any involvement in the Crunchie nomination process. -- Editor

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