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The Rise and Fall of Halsey Minor (CNET Co-Founder) (pehub.com)
7 points by cwan on Jan 5, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Charlottesville is a beautiful town, but the real estate market there is messed up. The prices haven't come down as much as they should have since the popping of the bubble, a local family controls a huge percentage of land, and so on. The walking mall is great and the university keeps things interesting, but in spite of it all, it is still "small town" by urban standards.


It was CNET, not Cnet, CNet, cnet, C|Net, etc.

Sorry, pet peeve (former employee).


This is a bit tabloid-y for hacker news, no?


True, but it's an interesting story covering a range of tech entrepreneurship topics/eras in a brief format: The 90s bubble, successful angel investing, entrepreneurship, excess, and how all those things can bring the self-destruction of an individual.




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