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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editor’s note: Peter Relan was VP of the Internet Division at Oracle, founding head of technology at Webvan from 1998 to 2000, and founder of the YouWeb Incubator program in 2006 and the ...
Webvan on Tuesday said it has ceased service in Dallas and laid off its entire staff there to conserve operating capital and focus on the profitability of its nine other markets. Webvan's Dallas ...
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.