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 ...

In fact, we were busy demonstrating failure in the Bay Area market while we expanded into other regions.” Webvan, headquartered in Foster City, California, announced grand plans of expanding and ...

On Monday, online grocer Webvan abruptly shut its operations and joined the dot-com failure list haunted by once-soaring Internet retailers such as EToys, Furniture.com and Pets.com. Schley was ...

Webvan's failure will lay off 2,000 employees and terminate delivery service to 750,000 active customers in seven markets -- San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Seattle ...

Runaway failure Webvan just lost its driver. George Shaheen, CEO of the home delivery grocery, announced he was quitting late yesterday. “A different kind of executive is needed to lead the ...

Hordes of faithful Webvan fans--from harried yuppies who don't have time for shopping to elderly people who no longer drive--bombarded online chat groups Monday to bemoan their loss. The failure ...

(FORTUNE Magazine) – Here's how stubborn I am. I still believe in Webvan. I still believe even though the company just shut down and filed for bankruptcy protection, and even though I got a ...

Bezos, as I see it, has also taken four lessons from Webvan’s failure: 1. Hire those in charge of a failed strategy. If you wanted to get into a new business, you could not be faulted for ...

Bezos could apply three lessons from FreshDirect’s success and Webvan’s failure to the newspaper industry: 1. Hire those in charge of the failed strategy At AmazonFresh, Bezos hired ...

Webvan's market performance is making its quest for funding even more difficult. The company's report also disclosed its stock could be delisted by the Nasdaq stock exchange for failure to ...

For a while, that was true—Webvan’s failure, along with that of its contemporaries HomeGrocer and Kozmo.com, briefly made food delivery the third rail of Silicon Valley. But in the 2010s ...

FOSTER CITY, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Webvan and HomeGrocer said Monday they’re merging in a $1.2 billion deal amid lean times for the two e-commerce players. The companies say the deal will create a ...