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Viaweb

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Viaweb
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Company typeSubsidiary
Website type
E-commerce
Area servedUnited States
Founders
ParentYahoo!
CommercialYes
Launched1995; 31 years ago (1995)[1]
Current statusInactive

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]

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References

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  1. 1 2 "Company". viaweb.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 1998. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Livingston, Jessica (January 2007). Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. Apress. pp. 207–208. ISBN 978-1-59059-714-9.
  4. ↑ Livingston, Jessica (January 2007). Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. Apress. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-59059-714-9.
  5. ↑ Paul Graham (April 2001). "Beating the Averages". paulgraham.com. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
  6. ↑ Paul Graham (August 24, 1995). "Viaweb's First Business Plan". paulgraham.com. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
  7. ↑ Paul Graham (April 2005). "Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas". paulgraham.com. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
  8. ↑ Paul Graham (April 2001). "Beating the Averages". paulgraham.com. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
  9. ↑ Randy Weston (June 9, 1998). "Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million". CNET News. Archived from the original on November 23, 2013. Retrieved February 16, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ↑ "Company news: Yahoo buying Viaweb, a web marketing software maker". New York Times. June 9, 1998. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
  11. ↑ Graham, Paul (May 2004). "How to Make Wealth". Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  12. ↑ Christopher Steiner (October 20, 2010). "The Disruptor In The Valley". Forbes. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
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