Software:Viaweb
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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site | E-commerce |
| Area served | United States |
| Founder(s) |
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| Parent | Yahoo! |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 1995[1] |
| Current status | Inactive |
Viaweb was a web-based application that allowed users to build and host their own online stores with little technical expertise using a web browser.[1] The company was started in July 1995 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris (using the pseudonym "John McArtyem"),[2] and Trevor Blackwell.[3] Graham claims Viaweb was the first application service provider.[4] Viaweb was also unusual for being partially written in the Lisp programming language.[5]
The software was originally called Webgen,[6] but another company was using the same name,[7] so the company renamed it to Viaweb, "because it worked via the Web".[8]
In 1998, Yahoo! Inc. bought Viaweb for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! capital stock, valued at about $49 million, and renamed it Yahoo! Store.[9][10]
Viaweb's example has been influential in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial culture, largely due to Graham's widely read essays[11] and his subsequent career as a successful venture capitalist.[12]
See also
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo!
- RTML
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Company". http://www.viaweb.com/vw/com.html.
- ↑ How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees, by Timothy B. Lee, at The Washington Post ; published November 1, 2013; retrieved November 1, 2018
- ↑ Livingston, Jessica (January 2007). Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. Apress. pp. 207–208. ISBN 978-1-59059-714-9. https://archive.org/details/foundersatworkst00livi/page/207.
- ↑ Livingston, Jessica (January 2007). Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. Apress. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-59059-714-9. https://archive.org/details/foundersatworkst00livi/page/206.
- ↑ Paul Graham (April 2001). "Beating the Averages". paulgraham.com. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.htm.
- ↑ Paul Graham (1995-08-24). "Viaweb's First Business Plan". paulgraham.com. http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html.
- ↑ Paul Graham (April 2005). "Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas". paulgraham.com. http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html.
- ↑ Paul Graham (April 2001). "Beating the Averages". paulgraham.com. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html.
- ↑ Randy Weston (1998-06-09). "Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million". CNET News. https://web.archive.org/web/20131123210613/http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-Viaweb-for-49-million/2100-1001_3-212001.html.
- ↑ "Company news: Yahoo buying Viaweb, a web marketing software maker". New York Times. 1998-06-09. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/09/business/company-news-yahoo-buying-viaweb-a-web-marketing-software-maker.html.
- ↑ Graham, Paul (May 2004). "How to Make Wealth". http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html.
- ↑ Christopher Steiner (2010-10-20). "The Disruptor In The Valley". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-10-y-combinator-paul-graham-disruptor.html.
External links
- "Viaweb.com on the Wayback Machine". http://www.viaweb.com/.
- "Yahoo! Stores". http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/.
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