Pets.com went bust in 2000, and Webvan went belly-up in 2001. Where Big Tech secrets go public — unfiltered in your inbox weekly. Sign up Jump to ...

2001-07-12 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco, California, USA-- The current deluge of stories analyzing the failure of high-profile delivery ventures Webvan and Kozmo miss the point entirely. It's true ...

If Pets.com is the dot.com bust's most famous flop, Webvan was its biggest. Like many victims of the bubble, the grocery delivery service grew too fast, expanding its services to eight cities in ...

Webvan's entire model was set up around the ... referring to the Bay Area failure. Well, duh! Isn't that the whole hurdle posed by the Internet? Consumer behavior isn't so easy to change.