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	Halsey Hall Chapter - SABR: Halsey Hall Biography
		Halsey soon took to announcing in a more conventional manner--over the broadcast airwaves instead of out a second-floor window--and his voice became a familiar one to people throughout the Upper Midwest.
		Halsey left the Twins broadcast crew following the 1972 season, but his name remained synonymous with baseball in the area thanks to Hal Greenwood, the president of Midwest Federal Savings and Loan, which was the prime sponsor of Twins' broadcasts at that time.
		Halsey would let the callers know how angry he was at their waking him up, but he'd also answer their question before hanging up.
	halseyhall.org /whowas.html (2809 words)

	Inside UVA
		Minor's challenge gift is designed to encourage other donors -- individuals, corporations, foundations and governmental entities -- to match his commitment in both funds and support for the project.
		Minor hopes his gift will be a catalyst for the University to evolve and improve higher education through the innovative use of new technology.
		Minor's gift offers unprecedented opportunities to help the University realize the aims of Virginia 2020, a long-term planning process that is focused on achieving higher standards of excellence in four key areas, including science and technology.
	www.virginia.edu /insideuva/2000/34/minor.html (794 words)

	William Halsey, Jr. Summary
		Halsey was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on 30 October 1882, the son of Captain William F. Halsey, Sr.
		Halsey was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1938, commanding Carrier Divisions for the next three years, and, as a Vice Admiral, also serving as Commander Aircraft Battle Force.
		Halsey resumed command of the Third Fleet from late May 1945 until the end of the war; he was present when Japan formally surrendered on the deck of his flagship, USS Missouri, on September 2, 1945.
	www.bookrags.com /William_Halsey,_Jr. (1657 words)

	Internet millionaire gives integration a whirl
		Minor: I was able to see across the industry that it was only a matter of time before a lot of the software that was being bought was proved to be relatively wasteful, given the inordinate cost and complexity.
		Minor: Over the last four years, what we've seen is probably the largest giveaway of intellectual property in the history of the technology industry.
		Minor: If you talk to any of the large enterprise software vendors about how many of their customers have moved up to their latest release, a year later they'll tell you it's 10% or 15%.
	searchwebservices.techtarget.com /qna/0,289202,sid26_gci945101,00.html (1265 words)

	Grand Central CEO Starts VC Fund - Technology News by InformationWeek
		Halsey Minor, CEO of Grand Central Communications Inc., is using a novel method to generate more customers for his online software services: He's offering to fund them himself as start-ups.
		Minor has taken $50 million of the reported $175 million he made as the founder of CNet and other investments, including a $19.5 million investment in SalesForce.com, and is putting it into his new On Demand Venture Capital Fund.
		Minor says another reason he's making the $50 million foray back into venture capital is because he knows the move will attract the interest of other venture capitalists.
	www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=49400759&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_Authors (743 words)

	Milestone Group
		Minor: I think it is hard to predict timing; it seems in the front end tectonic shifts always happen slower and in the back end they always happen faster.
		Minor: Our biggest challenge is communicating the value of our model in the face of a software industry that has a lot of vested interest in doing things the old way, no matter how inefficient they are and no matter how obvious it is that they don’t work.
		Minor's history of entrepreneurial ventures, savvy technology innovations and successful investments traces back to 1995, when he conceived of and developed a software technology called PRISM, which he sold to Vignette Corporation in 1996 in exchange for a 35 percent equity interest in the company.
	www.milestone-group.com /news/05_01/minor.htm (2022 words)

	The Technology Chronicles : Halsey Minor rides again
		I last saw Minor, who founded Cnet, in 2003, when he had returned to San Francisco from Virginia to take the reins at Grand Central Communications, a geeky "Web services" company.
		Minor was betting big on Web services at the time, a new way for companies to integrate their data online.
		Minor Ventures, Minor's investment arm, occupies Grand Central's old offices, on the 16th floor of 50 Fremont St. in San Francisco's Financial District.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=11739 (354 words)

	Halsey Minor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Halsey Minor (born 1965 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1992.
		Minor attended the University of Virginia, where he was a member of St.
		Elmo Hall and received a degree in anthropology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halsey_Minor (119 words)

	Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Halsey Minor, successful businessman and entrepreneur, today announced that he has personally created a $50 million On Demand venture capital fund.
		Minor founded a number of companies that defined the Consumer Internet, including CNET Networks, Vignette, and Snap.com/NBCi, and is now funding companies that are defining the Business Internet.
		In 1999, Minor was a founding investor and board member in salesforce.com, the leading provider of On Demand CRM, and continues to be the second largest shareholder in the company.
	www.grandcentral.com /view/corp.page.press-release/press-release/corp.object.news.articles.press-release/20041004_venturefund (1015 words)

	The Cavalier Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Minor said another reason he made the gift was because the University has always held a special place in his heart.
		Minor's great-great grandfather was the namesake of Minor Hall and his grandfather's first cousin on his mother's side was the "Bull" Halsey of Halsey Hall.
		Minor is the founder and chairman of CNET Inc. an Internet-based company which provides information and services relating to computers and technology.
	www.cavalierdaily.com /CVArticle.asp?ID=6018&pid=635 (589 words)

	The New York Times > Technology > Is It Still Called a Venture Fund When You Use Your Own Money? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Minor, a founder of Cnet, one of the more successful Internet enterprises of the 1990's, has decided to get back on the horse.
		Minor intends to invest no less than $500,000 in any one start-up, and as much as $20 million if the right opportunity presents itself.
		Minor tells a different version - that the firm was looking for enterprises that were 12 on a scale of one to 10, thus the name.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/10/04/technology/04minor.html?ex=1254628800&en=6a9d0f5021189f48&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (782 words)

	Review: Halsey's Typhoon
		Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue, by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
		They are at their most compelling in recreating the devastating impact of the storm on the smaller destroyers and recounting the gruesome stories of survival at sea for the sailors of the sunken ships.
		Halsey's Typhoon is a compelling account of a big ego (Halsey's), a bigger storm, and uncommon heroism on the high seas.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,120457,00.html (550 words)

	CNET's I.P.O. Is First by a Web Content Provider
		Its 31-year-old chief executive, Halsey Minor, owns slightly less than 3 million shares of CNET stock, putting the value of his stock holding at nearly $60 million.
		Halsey started the company four years ago with a combination of his own money, money from friends and family and a major investment from Paul Allen, cofounder of the Microsoft Corporation and one the nation's wealthiest people.
		Initially, Minor had predicted that revenues from television would account for the largest chunk of CNET's total, but he quickly adjusted his strategy last year when it became clear the CNET on-line service would be the bigger cash cow.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/0703cnet.html (852 words)

	Coup d'Etat at Grand Central
		Halsey Minor, the Internet veteran who founded Grand Central Communications Inc., has ousted the San Francisco-based company's outspoken president and CEO Craig Donato and will assume the role of CEO effective immediately, the web services enabler announced Wednesday.
		Minor said, in fact, he had been thinking about taking over for two or three months and told Donato last week that he wanted the CEO responsibilities.
		Minor already has his money where his mouth is. Minor developed and sold to Vignette the technology for its Story Server product, founded CNET Networks (Quote, Chart) in 1992 and was a founding investor in Listen.com and salesforce.com.
	siliconvalley.internet.com /news/article.php/2233311 (843 words)

	Why host your SOA's connective tissue when you can outsource it? \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Minor's vision aligns perfectly with the principles of abstraction and the central post office metaphor that SOA giants like IBM and BEA use to describe the Enterprise Service Bus.
		Minor believes Grand Central, along with the entire new class of hosted services companies, is primed to grow rapidly in the coming year.
		Minor was coy about Grand Central's financial outlook, but predicted that government contracts alone could account for $25 million in revenue for the last calendar quarter of 2005.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-5306281.html (1683 words)

	ContraCostaTimes.com \| 03/11/2007 \| Frustrated Halsey roughed up again
		Then there are days like Saturday at Tucson Electric Park, when A's left-hander Brad Halsey thought he had good stuff and still came away with an unsightly pitching line against the Chicago White Sox.
		Halsey gave up nine hits and nine runs (six earned) in just 2ª innings, the second consecutive outing he hasn't left the mound pleased with himself.
		Two errors -- one when Halsey threw off target to second on a possible double-play ball, another by third baseman Antonio Perez --led to three more runs before Halsey exited in the third.
	www.contracostatimes.com /mld/cctimes/16881733.htm (477 words)

	Grand Central Communications - Management Team - Halsey Minor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		A veteran entrepreneur, Minor founded CNET Networks (NASDAQ:CNET) in 1992 and as Chairman and CEO built CNET into one of the world's leading new media companies, recognized around the globe as the trusted source of information related to computers and technology.
		Minor's history of entrepreneurial ventures, savvy technology innovations and successful investments traces back to 1995, when he conceived of and developed a software technology called PRISM, which he sold to Vignette Corporation in 1996 in exchange for a 35 percent equity interest in the company.
		Minor was a founding investor in Listen.com, which was recently acquired by Real Media (NASDAQ:TFSM), and Salesforce.com, where he also serves on the board of directors.
	www.grandcentral.com /company/mgmt/hminor.html (239 words)

	Kareo \| On-Demand Revenue Cycle Automation
		“Halsey Minor, with his unique experience as an investor and entrepreneur in consumer Internet, enterprise software, and on-demand business models, continues to be a great source of insight and perspective for the company.
		Founded in 2005, by veteran entrepreneur Halsey Minor, Minor Ventures is a boutique venture capital firm focused on investing in early stage technology companies that deliver applications and services over the Internet.
		Minor Ventures invests in passionate, committed entrepreneurs who strive to change the shape of business on the Internet.
	www.kareo.com /news/pressreleases/2006_05_17 (369 words)

	Donor No. 57: Halsey Minor
		The largest contribution from a private individual to a state legislator for the 1999 election cycle fattened the campaign pockets of Delegate C. Paul Harris.
		Internet guru Halsey Minor gave Harris $50,000 - almost 30 percent of the total contributions that the Charlottesville Republican received for the campaign.
		Minor, chairman and chief executive officer of CNET Inc., founded the Internet media company in 1992.
	www.people.vcu.edu /~jcsouth/on-the-lege-2000/project/halsey-minor.html (323 words)

	Leverage Software :: Leverage Software Announces 'Series A' Financing Round With Participation From Leading Investors, ...
		Investors include Halsey Minor and his OnDemand Venture Capital Fund and John Stanton, a financial services entrepreneur and executive, who joins the Leverage Software board of directors.
		Minor also founded a number of other highly successful ventures, including CNET, one of the world's most successful new media companies.
		As a pioneer in relationship capital management, we are extremely fortunate to welcome Halsey Minor and John Stanton, two highly successful entrepreneurs and business executives as investors and board members.
	sev.prnewswire.com /computer-software/20050606/SFM02006062005-1.html (833 words)

	Online NewsHour: ATT Launches Internet Service
		HALSEY MINOR: (San Francisco) Well, I think they've realized that being in the online service business is extremely important to them as a telecommunications provider.
		MINOR: The Internet is really sort of no different than the telephone network, except rather than carrying voice traffic, it actually carries pictures and graphics and text and audio and even video.
		MINOR: Netscape is the leading producer of a browser which actually connects people to the Internet.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/cyberspace/att_internet_2-28.html (974 words)

	Salon \| 21st: Can Minor strike gold?
		His grandfather's first cousin was Admiral Bill Halsey, the commander of the Allied Naval forces in the South Pacific during World War II (later immortalized in one of the most annoying pop songs of all time, Paul McCartney's "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey").
		Minor visibly bristles when he hears criticism that CNET sites such as Shareware.com are parasitic, feeding off of other people's content rather than generating original material.
		Minor says the porn ban on Snap is an economic decision, not a moral one, and envisages Snap becoming "what Blockbuster is to video stores." By that, Minor means, he wants Snap to be a reliably mainstream domain that's completely safe for family surfing.
	archive.salon.com /21st/feature/1998/03/cov_13feature2.html (2421 words)

	American Art Buyers Selective : Maine Antique Digest, March 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Minor had bought these 14 works and others during a relatively short period of time from Gerald Peters Gallery at extremely high prices.
		When Minor's business ran into difficulties, he reportedly asked Peters to sell his collection for him, which the dealer attempted to do, offering them around to all possible buyers, with no success.
		Minor then effectively "sold" them to Christie's, which reportedly guaranteed their sale at the December auction at $12 million, some $13 million less than Minor is reported to have paid Peters originally.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/mar03/came0303.htm (1553 words)

	SPOTLIGHT / Halsey Minor: Former Cnet chief tries to turn Web services into gold
		Minor, the 38-year-old founder and former chief executive officer of Internet pioneer Cnet Networks, had retreated back to his hometown of Charlottesville, Va., where he had bought a ranch of a couple hundred acres.
		Minor this month pulled the house off the market, as he took the reins of Grand Central Communications of San Francisco, a small Internet services firm he started in 2000.
		Now Minor believes he is once again onto something that will be a growth area, even if it is a difficult concept to embrace.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/07/16/BU61142.DTL&type=business (1725 words)

	Fool.com: CNet Sees New CEO (Fool Plate Special) March 10, 2000
		This marks yet another chapter in the interesting story of the fast-rising Minor, who founded San Francisco-based CNET in December 1992 after a stint with executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates, a turn as founder and CEO of Global Publishing Corp., and a tour of duty as an investment banker for Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER).
		That's pretty much boilerplate corporate language that suggests that Minor's vision for the company has been more or less realized, and now is an appropriate time to turn it over to the managers for stewardship.
		Those who think Minor's move marks a sea change in the company's direction -- as well as those looking for a continuation of the stock's remarkable two-year run -- might disagree, but more likely it's the "business as usual" camp that's closer to the money.
	www.fool.com /news/2000/foolplate000310.htm (570 words)

	IT Manager's Journal \| Halsey Minor, CEO/Founder, Grand Central Communications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Halsey Minor is the chief executive officer, chairman, and founder of Grand Central Communications, a provider of integration and on-demand software services.
		A veteran entrepreneur, Minor founded CNET Networks in 1992 and was one of the founding investors in Listen.com (sold later to Real Networks) and SalesForce.com in 1999.
		Minor: We're going to go through a period of customer confusion before things begin to take shape.
	journal.itmanagersjournal.com /journal/05/03/23/2216255.shtml?tid=110 (362 words)

	VentureBeat » Grand Central gives you a single phone number; backed by Halsey Minor
		There was a bug or two, but they were minor and should be fixed soon.
		Halsey Minor, the founder of CNET created a company called Grand Central as a way to integrate all kinds of Web services — eBay, PayPal, Intuit — into a single platform.
		This time, GrandCentral is a different company, but it is backed by Halsey Minor with an undisclosed amount of cash.
	venturebeat.com /2006/09/25/grand-central-gives-you-a-single-phone-number-backed-by-halsey-minor (966 words)

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