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Tech Startup Mickey Merges With B2B Marketplace MaterialsXchange to Form Lumber Exchange
eCommerce // September 01, 2022

Mickey, a tech startup digitizing the trading of physical commodities, has joined with B2B eCommerce and digital marketplace MaterialsXchange, which matches lumber buyers and sellers across the U.S. and Canada, a press release said Thursday (Sept. 1). This will expand Mickey’s footprint into the commodity...

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With Roots in Commodity Trading, MaterialsXchange Moves Lumber Sales Digital

September 20, 2022
Early on, marketplace platforms experience what’s known as an ignition problem — a kind of chicken-and-egg dilemma where prime movers need to start adoption before everyone else signs on, too, realizing the dynamics that make platforms so efficient. The digitization of retail commerce is now firmly rooted in platform dynamics — Amazon being a good […]