Second Phase prospers with B2B e-commerce

BOULDER — Second Phase was founded on the idea that it wasn’t worthwhile chasing down the consumer side of e-commerce solutions. Instead, the Boulder-based company focused on the business-to-business side of the equation, which has taken it on an epic ride.
“It was pretty lean in the beginning,” said cofounder and chief executive Mark Kostovny about chasing that secondary market in 2001. “We started to explode in 2012.
“B2B e-commerce is the future of e-commerce. Only 20 percent of distributors have an e-commerce site,” Kostovny said. “Consumers…
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