Consumers and beneficiaries
Professionals, merchants and entrepreneurs that can manage the core of their business or philanthropic activities online. For example, software developer, designers, salesmen, open source contributors, etc. Xourse will constantly extend the features available in the future to cover industries like education, health care and finance.
Industry
Both Software as a Service and distributed teams for freelancing and within an organization are industries with high growth rates. Taking the freelancing for software development as a reference; In 2013 it was estimated there were 18.2 software developers in the world and by 2019 it’s expected that the number will rise to 26.4: India to overtake US number of developers by 2017.
Xourse is poised to take advantage of this because unlike the current competitors that only focus on the clients (the ones that hire the freelancers) Xourse will provide economic mechanism that will allow professionals to aspire to economic independence, multiple revenue channels and scaling their income through their knowledge and networking.