Vishwas Mudagal, CEO of GoodWorkLabs, will speak at Nasscom Product Conclave, Kolkata on 18th July 2013 on the topic “Ideas to Inception – Lean Startup Philosophy”
Register for the mega event today and catch up with him!
http://npckolkata2014.sched.org/speaker/vishwas_mudgal.6ffgs4k#.U3L1Jq2SwvM
GoodWorkLabs in news!
Popular magazine Silicon India featured GoodWorkLabs in the Entrepreneur Year Book 2014 saying “GoodWorkLabs is one of the fastest growing outsourced product development and innovation firms globally.”
Writing about the key differentiating factors of GoodWorklabs, the article says “GoodWorkLabs has worked with an idea to help companies globally and locally build products, take them to the market and scale them. In the market, there is gap in terms of expertise required to build products end to end. That’s where the company made an impact with their core team, with their several products/startup building experience, during the last decade. The quality is exceptional, which essentially helped them to understand what fails and what works.”
Read the complete article here on GoodWorkLabs growth and key strategies for expansion globally.
Vishwas Mudagal, CEO – GoodWorkLabs, was covered in Himachal Times! Excepts – “Mudagal stating about the mantra of success said that one should not be afraid of failures. He explained about the intricacies of entrepreneurship and also answered queries raised by the students. He said that enthusiasm was key to success in entrepreneurship.”
Read the full article below –
Bangalore Mirror wrote an article on GoodWorkLabs CEO Vishwas Mudagal in the Thinking Big section. “He encourages young people to innovate and execute their business ideas without fear of failure,” read the article. Read complete story here – Vishwas Mudagal has entrepreneurship in his veins
GoodWorkLabs CEO Vishwas Mudagal’s debut novel ‘Losing My Religion’ becomes a sensational best-seller!
The latest best-seller ‘Losing My Religion’ is the gritty story of Rishi Rai, a fallen gaming entrepreneur-turned-
His life takes an unexpected turn when he meets Alexander Long—a crazy, unpredictable American hippie—and decides to tag along with him on an uncharted journey. The rollercoaster ride that their life becomes turns all the more exciting when they meet Kyra, a mysterious and beautiful gamer. Together, they all become part of a game whose end nobody could have predicted . . .
The book is billed as a must-read for every professional, student and an entrepreneur. To know more, visit his Losing My Religion website.
To buy the book, visit Flipkart – Amazon – uRead (international shipping available on uRead).
The book is being praised equally by critics and readers. Here are some links to media / blog coverage –
The New Indian Express – A Journey Of A Lifetime
Yourstory.com – How Serial Entrepreneur Vishwas Mudagal Lost His Religion
GoodWorkLabs had the pleasure of being a part of exclusive group of companies meeting the Kenyan ICT Authority delegation to India. Vishwas Mudagal, CEO of GoodWorkLabs, addressed the delegation that comprised of Kenya’s ICT Authority (that is responsible to plan and execute Kenya’s growth in IT), government’s county departments and private companies. In his address, Vishwas spoke about Kenya’s rapidly growing market, praised the development the newly formed counties have achieved and willingness and interest of GoodWorkLabs and Indian companies to collaborate with Kenya and being a part of the growth story. Eunice Kariuki, Director of Marketing, ICT Authority, Kenya, spoke about why Kenya is a great place to be and how the economy and the ICT sector is transforming and growing. We thank Nasscom for facilitating the event, which was great to understand the strengths of two countries and explore ways to work together.
Here are some pictures from the event.
Vishwas Mudagal, CEO of GoodWorkLabs, addressing the Kenyan ICT delegation.
Andrew Lewela, Project Manager, Kenya ICT, addressing the event.
Vishwas Mudagal with Eunice Kariuki, Director of Kenya ICT Authority
Vishwas Mudagal with Andrew Lewela
Hellen Kirui, Market Development, Kenya ICT presented the exquisite Kenyan Coffee to GoodWorkLabs. Thank you for the great coffee!
We are pleasured to announce that GoodWorkLabs, the leading outsourced-product-development and innovation firm, is now a proud member of Nasscom.
Nasscom is the trade association of Indian IT and BPO industry and sets the tone for public policy for the Indian software industry. Becoming a part of Nasscom is a milestone in GoodWorkLab’s rapid growth story, making our brand more established and well-known world-wide. We hope to play an integral role in the future of technology industry alongside Nasscom.
Garden City RubyConf 2014 – Sponsored by GoodWorkLabs, a set on Flickr.
Garden City RubyConf that was held at Hotel Atria, Bangalore, was a major success with a packed house. Ruby developers and enthusiasts came in from around the globe.
GoodWorkLabs was a sponsor of the conference.
Check out some of the pics taken during the event, along with GoodWork team.
Via Flickr:
GoodWorkLabs was a proud sponsor of Garden City Ruby Conf 2014 held in Bangalore. Check out some pics.
GoodWorkLabs Opens Office In San Francisco Bay Area, USA
Fremont, CA, 30th December 2013:
GoodWorkLabs, the leading outsourced product development and consulting firm, establishes its office in Fremont, California to support its rapid growth in the USA. The office will mainly look after the business development, sales and client engagement for the Silicon Valley region and rest of the USA eventually.
‘GoodWorkLabs has doubled its revenues in the last quarter and we see tremendous demand for high-end product development and UX design services in 2014. A good percentage of our clients are from the United States and especially Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area) and our office in the heart of Bay Area will go a long way in establishing our presence and provide great service and support to our growing client base,’ said Vishwas Mudagal, CEO of GoodWorkLabs.
The firm has roped in Ravi Makadia as the Director of Sales & Project Management for United States. ‘Ravi comes with vast experience in technology management, sales and business development. More importantly, he embodies our culture of driving and delivering innovation and excellence. We are aggressive with our growth plans in the US and our Bay Area office is a key step towards creating a leadership position in the US market,’ commented Sonia Sharma, MD of GoodWorkLabs.
‘Bay Area startups and tech firms need high-end product outsourcing partners who can deliver innovative and top quality software. This is critical for their success and GoodWorkLabs has the ability to deliver just that. Effective client engagement and providing sales support will be a key function of Fremont office to begin with. I am excited to be a part of scaling a young and dynamic company,’ said Ravi Makadia.
About GoodWorkLabs
GoodWorkLabs is a disruptive software lab that delivers cutting-edge product development and solutions for customers globally. The firm specializes in Custom Software Development, Ruby on Rails Development, Java Development, Mobile Apps Development, Games Development, UX Design and Consulting.
Contact Address:
GoodWorkLabs Services Pvt. Ltd.
US Office:
7100 Stevenson Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538
+1-510-400-4534
contact@www.goodworklabs.com
India Office:
Prestige Shantiniketan, Whitefield
Bangalore, India
+91-80-43364621
contact@www.goodworklabs.com
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Few pictures of Fremont, CA office below
Nagpur Entrepreneurs, a popular blog, covered an interview of Sonia Sharma, MD & Co-Founder of GoodWorkLabs. Here are excerpts from the featured interview–
Women Entrepreneurship in India Needs a Strong Ecosystem to Thrive
Women entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important function for driving development and economic growth. Right at this moment, there are several women entrepreneurs who are starting businesses and changing the world with their unique solutions to business and management problems.
In India, we do not have many women-led businesses that have grown beyond a certain scale. Did you know: the four southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala account for over 50 percent of all women-led SSI units in India, which pretty much gives us a clear picture of the current state of women entrepreneurship in India.
In today’s entrepreneur interview, we’re featuring Sonia Sharma, MD and co-founder of GoodWorkLABS, a software startup. While explaining the benefits of lean methodology in software development, she also opines that for women entrepreneurship to thrive in India, a strong ecosystem must be created.
Q: Briefly tell us about your background.
I am a techie at heart and will always be one. I started out as a software engineer after graduating from UIIT, Shimla. Since then it has been a memorable journey. I love working with startups and after nearly a decade of startup experience in working with high-tech startups such as Arcot and Aveksa, I went on to start my own firm, GoodWorkLabs. Planning new products, identifying roadmaps, working with customers to solve their technology /business problems and creating winning partnerships are my passions.
Q: GoodWorkLABS is a new-age software lab. How does it solve challenging software problems in the business world?
We are the best at what we do, that’s the key difference. We started GoodWorkLabs with an idea to help companies globally and locally build products, take them to the market and scale them. Our quality is exceptional because we know what it takes to build world class products. The core team has built several products during the last decade, essentially helping us understand what fails, what works and how to scale. The market is crowded with many IT services companies (big and small), which are no different from each other, and there is gap in terms of expertise required to build products end to end. That’s where we come in and can make a huge difference to our clients.
We help firms in technology, UX, pricing strategy, marketing and beyond. Our aim is to solve complex problems of our clients and we are proud to have passionate and awesomest programmers. Our customers are typically firms that need high-end talent and who are ready to pay extra to get quality. It was a risky proposition to position the company at the top of the pyramid, but we knew there was a space for it. And we were right. Within 9 months, we have grown tremendously, adding clients from Fortune 500 companies to top-notch startups. We are now hiring aggressively to cater to the need and our hiring is painful because we hire the best.
Our other forte is our eye for perfection and attention to detail. Everything we do has to be beautiful and have great user experience (UX). We help customers in mobile apps for iPhone and Android, Games, Custom Software, Enterprise Software, Ruby on Rails projects, Java, .NET and UX/ UI.
Q: You’ve spent a decade in the IT industry before starting GoodWorkLabs. How important is work experience for an aspiring entrepreneur?
Experience is important because it makes you what you are. Failures are more important than successes. Learning what not to do is the best learning. Having ambition is good but ambition along with experience is better. After having spent almost a decade in the IT industry and tasted success and failure, I am able to add a ton of value to our customers and our teams. My suggestion to aspiring entrepreneurs is to get some relevant experience before starting your own. But if you have a killer idea, then nothing should stop you from implementing it.
Q: What qualities should one look out for while finding a business partner / co-founder?
Well, 1st thing I look for is trust. Businesses cannot be built without trust. Rather than bringing in a total stranger, I would prefer to team up with someone I have a history with. Also, you need to question as to what the other co founder will bring to the table. The way I look at it, co founders should complement each other as far as their skills and capabilities are concerned.
I was lucky that GoodWorkLabs was funded by industry leader Vishwas Mudagal, who not only invested time and money but brought along with him many top client connections, execution experience and credibility. One of the accomplishments for the firm is that we grew so fast that Vishwas has now joined us as the CEO of GoodWorkLabs.
Q: Do you believe in lean/agile software development? What are its advantages?
We live, breathe and dream Agile Software Development. At GoodWorkLabs, we always follow Agile Methodologies of SCRUM and Extreme Programming for all our projects, where we iteratively build a product. It gives our customers a number of benefits that include quick time-to-market window, saving costs building only essential features to go to market, control of the roadmap and ability to change the direction of the project every sprint, measure quality at the end of every sprint, better risk management because you see a potential deployable product every sprint and so on.
Q: How would you describe the current state of women entrepreneurship in India? What can be done to grow it further?
This topic is very close to my heart. I think we have a very fundamental problem…I see a problem in the way we raise our daughters. We treat them second to our sons and they grow up accepting that. As a result, there is a lack of self respect and self belief in most of them. A trait every entrepreneur should possess is belief in self and our upbringing doesn’t give a chance to this trait to get inculcated in our daughters.
We Indians need to change that mentality and need to give our daughters a better environment to grow up in. Parents need to have a belief in them.
I was lucky having to born into a very progressive family. There was not even a single moment where I felt that I got any lesser treatment and encouragement than what my brothers received from my parents. My parents were always very proud of me, had belief in me and encouraged me a lot. And I was lucky again to get married to a man who respected me as an individual and ambition and supported me unconditionally.
Much needs to be done in India to encourage women entrepreneurship. We need an ecosystem that needs to evolve, both at grassroot level and the corporate / startup levels. We need to encourage hiring women in our workforce, come up with women friendly work policies, give them safe environment to succeed. When more women enter the leadership brass, they go out and start more companies (like the way I did), which is good for the economy.
Read the complete interview here.
