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Are Today’s Food Delivery Startups Destined to Become Dot-Com Flameouts like Webvan and Kozmo

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Demography Unplugged
Feb 16, 2016
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Contributor Jim Kerstetter likens today’s food delivery startups to dot-com flameouts like Webvan and Kozmo. What goes unmentioned is that today’s delivery phenoms like Instacart and Postmates have the mobile IT to make it all work—and none of the massive infrastructure burdens that made their predecessors fold.

—The New York Times

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