Webvan

That didn't turn out so well during the tech bubble -- recall Webvan and Pets. com.

Forbes.com: News 2009

That didn't turn out so well during the tech bubble -- recall Webvan and Pets. com.

Forbes.com: News 2009

The online food and grocery business has had a turbulent past with a variety of high profile firms such as Webvan, Kozmo and others failing as a result of their impossibly ambitious logistic requirements.

Amazon Enters into Online Groceries | Impact Lab 2006

As a matter of fact, Lai made a costly mistake in his Admart think "Webvan" venture during the dotcom era.

Archive 2006-03-01 Sun Bin 2006

As a matter of fact, Lai made a costly mistake in his Admart think "Webvan" venture during the dotcom era.

Action vs strategy: illustrated by Apple Daily's price hike in Taiwan Sun Bin 2006

During the last tech boom, some top executives left corporations at the height of the bubble—such as George Shaheen , who stepped down as CEO of Andersen Consulting in 1999 to join online grocer Webvan Goup Inc.—only to see the start-up they joined sink soon after coming onboard.

Jumping the Corporate Ship Emily Glazer 2011

Morten Sorensen , an associate professor at Columbia University's Business School who researches venture capital, adds that some venture investors reaped returns of around 300 times in the late 1990s dot-com boom from then-highfliers like online grocer Webvan Inc., but Facebook is set to be "the highest return I've ever seen."

A $9 Billion Jackpot for Facebook Investor Pui-Wing Tam 2012

The company's financial metrics suggest that Groupon "is today's Webvan," says Francis Gaskins , president of research site IPOdesktop.com, referring one of the more prominent dot-com flops.

Some Look To Groupon As Measure Lynn Cowan 2011

With scars from the heyday of Webvan and Pets.com still fresh in the investor psyche, people are asking, "Isn't this just a dangerous new bubble?"

Why Software Is Eating The World Marc Andreessen 2011

Later, when I moved to San Francisco for the first time, like Webvan, it became an indispensable service, for there was little time for me to visit Blockbuster.

Netflix: Two Billion DVDs Served 2009