Partially related: Third party analyses of failures. [1] and [2] analyze Webvan's failure 14 years back. It is fascinating to read it now and see how much of i

Partially related: Third party analyses of failures. [1] and [2] analyze Webvan's failure 14 years back. It is fascinating to read it now and see how much of it they got right (and see how much was wrong, with the benefit of hindsight). [1] Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/2496.html http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/2496.html [2] What Webvan Could Have Learned from Tesco http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/what-webvan-could-have-learned-from-tesco/ http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/what-webvan-could...