Webvan. Webvan was a dot-com company and grocery business that filed for bankruptcy in 2001 after 3 years of operation. It was headquartered in Foster City, California, United States. It delivered products to customers' homes within a 30-minute window of their choosing. [2]

2021年1月18日 · 20 years ago, Webvan was born in the midst of the dot-com bubble and appeared to be well on their way to dominating the grocery delivery market. They had nearly $800 million of funding, automated warehouses, and fleets of delivery trucks across the United States.

2024年10月15日 · Webvan, a Bay Area startup worth billions, was supposed to be the next Amazon. Instead, it was a disaster.

2013年9月27日 · Webvan is well-known as the poster child of the dot-com “excess” bubble that led to the tech market crash in 2000. Business schools around the nation study Webvan’s overly...

2001年7月10日 · Webvan, the latest dot-company to come and go and lose a billion dollars in the process, did a decent job in its main business of delivering groceries. But somehow the company managed to screw up...

2016年11月17日 · Webvan, an online grocery, employed technological breakthroughs in its distribution system but blundered through key strategic and operational decisions, which led to a complete collapse of the company in just 5 years.

2014年9月16日 · In this second part of the ‘Famous Failures’ series, we examine Webvan, the poster child of the excesses that defined the initial dotcom bust, to learn important lessons in scaling.

Webvan Group was an online grocery delivery service that operated between mid-1999 and mid-2001, when it ceased operations, shut down its World Wide Web site, and filed bankruptcy.

2013年6月17日 · The four lessons he applied from Webvan's flop highlight Bezos' broader lesson for managers: winning flows from focusing the best brains and technology on making life better for consumers.

2001年9月17日 · The Internet grocer Webvan died a nasty death along with many other online delivery services—or did it? HBS professor John A. Deighton describes how the forces that propelled it are here to stay.