Webvan Fighting To Survive

from the bad-business-ideas dept

The SJ Merc has an article that looks at where Webvan went wrong and how they hope to make it through. The main problem that people pointed out was that they went national too quickly. They never figured out what really worked and how to make money in one location before agreeing to spend a ton of money on other locations. The folks at Webvan, though, are still confident, but a little more humble.


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