Re:Uber starts same-day grocery delivery service in US
by encoderer on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @03:17PM
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Also wasn't WebVan running warehouses? That is so totally different than InstaCart and Google Shopping Express. Your long memory is, IMO, working against you here.
AmazonFresh is doing something along the lines of what WebVan was trying, with the capitalization to make a real go of it.
Re:Uber starts same-day grocery delivery service in US
by 27182818284 on Thursday August 21, 2014 @10:54PM
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>Your long memory is, IMO, working against you here.
What you wrote and what I wrote I don't think conflict at all, so I don't know why you'd say it is working against me. Also I have found references to what I wrote in writing[0] so I'm not completely crazy.
Now, an anecdote that I might screw up because my memory is fuzzy about it, is that the founder of Instacart was given a copy of Webvan's business plan on a floppy as a sort of "Good luck!" token.
[0]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-By-Step...
I see it as very different from something like, say, Instacart not because of the core idea of grocery delivery, but because Webvan made some mistakes that seem made-up when read today. Recall they had their IPO just 60 days after their first webstore which in turn was something like one month after their beta launch.
So they went from beta with 1000 users to IPO in like 90 days. That's, what, the time Instacart spent just in Y Combinator growing and learning?