Introducing LimeExchange

To create LimeExchange, we’ve assembled a team of some of the brightest web development minds in the US and India. Technology has allowed us to do that. The internet has made the world a much smaller place. It blurs the boundaries between our offices in Noida and here in New York to an almost imperceptible line. Technology allows us to tap into a global resource pool, giving us access to skills in software design that we otherwise could not find or afford. It allows us to collaborate across 11 time zones and exchange ideas with great fluidity in rapid development.

We’re not the only company to take advantage of technology and globalization. Businesses around the world have used outsourcing for decades to access the specialized skill sets for particular projects and help achieve a flexible workforce, with lower costs, and greater responsiveness. Traditionally, though, outsourcing was the exclusive purview of big business: big, multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects delivered by big service providers to big multi-national companies. Small and mid-sized businesses didn’t dare outsource due to legitimate concerns over risk, cost, and complexity. And that’s unfortunate, because small and midsize businesses, on the one hand, and small and midsize service providers, on the other, are made for each other: one typically lacks skills and the other specializes in delivering those skills at an affordable price.

LimeExchange brings the power of outsourcing to smaller businesses and service providers everywhere, and connects them through the power of social networking in a way that opens the door to whole new opportunities for each. By drastically simplifying the contacting, contracting and controlling of projects, LimeExchange makes it easy for businesses of every size to build tight, productive relationships with talented service providers anywhere on earth, and realize the same benefits of technology and globalization – whether on large projects, or small one-off projects.

LimeExchange goes beyond mere matching of buyers and sellers or providing simple feedback rating systems. It provides the contemporary social technologies knowledge workers need to establish, build, manage and sustain profitable business relationships around the world. Ultimately, we’re providing a trusted marketplace that breaks down the digital walls and lets businesses and service providers of all sizes participate in the global economy in which we live.

Tags: Freelancers, outsourcing, Service Providers, SMB