With the whole start-up buzz taking the country by surprise, there is enormous pressure on firms today to constantly innovate and create path-breaking products. The start-up journey gets all the more challenging when a women decides to tread the path of leadership.

But then there are some who break through the clutter and go that extra mile to live their dreams. Sonia Sharma, MD and Founder of GoodWorkLabs shares her entrepreneurial journey with The Tribune

“Being a job provider gives me immense satisfaction and joy. As a job provider, I have been able to contribute to the growth of our economy by creating job opportunities for younger generation. I think staying in our own country and creating opportunities for others is something that we can celebrate for“, says Sonia.

Sonia calls herself a practical dreamer with just one dream at a time. Clocking a 500% year on year revenue growth, Sonia is certain that her company GoodWorkLabs is going to the most sought after company for UX design.

Read the full story here on the Tribune

Sonia Sharma, MD and Founder of GoodWorkLabs with her team at Bangalore, India

Recently, GoodWorkLabs was being adjudged as the 5th fastest growing technology company in India by Deloitte. This was indeed a proud moment for both Sonia Sharma, MD and Founder and  for the Technology Superstars at GoodWorkLabs

GoodWorkLabs has emerged as a leader in the premium product and app development industry with a spectacular revenue growth rate of 1112%.

You can read more about the GoodWorkLabs success story here on Economic Times

Here are some moments from the award night!

Sonia Sharma, Founder of GoodWorkLabs accepting the award on behalf of the Team

GoodWorkLabs ranked as the 5th Fastest Growing Technology Company

The Top 50 Companies that made it to the Deloitte Fast 50 Award list

Top 10 companies that won the Deloitte Technology awards! GoodWorkLabs was ranked as the 5th Fastest growing Tech Company

While the air at GoodWorkLabs is celebratory now, we are also constantly thinking on the next steps to revolutionize and innovate in the mobile and technology industry.

So, if you want to develop a custom software and deploy the latest technology for your business, then just reach out to the GoodWorkLabs team here.

GoodWorkLabs today announced that it ranked 5th on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ India 2016, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in India. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over three years. GoodWorkLabs  grew 1112 percent during this period.

Deloitte Fast 50 India

Sonia Sharma, Managing Director and Founder, GoodWorkLabs credits rigorous perseverance and product market adeptness with the company’s average growth of 1112% over the past three years. She said,

“GoodWorkLabs has emerged as a leader in the premium product and app development sector not only in India, but globally. The biggest names in the industry from Fortune 500 clients to startups want to work with us for we have evolved a DNA of creating path-breaking products. Deloitte Fast 50 Award is significant because it showcases our growth despite being bootstrapped which is outstanding, clearly outpacing the competition. It marks the beginning of the next leg of growth for us. Our endeavor now will be to become a global powerhouse with strong business units in different industry verticals and geographies.”

“Winning the Deloitte Fast 50 Award for 2016 showcases and legitimizes our rapid growth over the past 3 years. This is the most prestigious award in the industry where the numbers do the talking and it’s not some subjective selection. The numbers have spoken and we have won! This is a milestone event for GoodWorkLabs!” expressed Vishwas Mudagal, CEO and Co-Founder of GoodWorkLabs.

He adds, “We see a strong demand for our services and products in the technology and mobility sectors. Clients globally want to automate processes and move towards a larger mobile environment, backed with secure infrastructure. GoodWorkLabs is a leader in this segment with a successful track record. We will continue to grow rapidly in terms of revenue, headcount and client base in multiple geographies.”

“Attracting enough customers to attain such fast growth over three years makes a strong statement about the quality of a company’s product and its leadership,” said Rajiv Sundar, Partner, Deloitte in India. “GoodWorkLabs has shown the right calibre for growth.”

About Deloitte Technology Fast50 India Program:

The Technology Fast50 India program, which was launched in 2005, is conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP (DTTILLP), and is part of a truly integrated Asia Pacific program recognizing the India’s fastest growing and most dynamic technology businesses (public and private) and includes all areas of technology – from internet to biotechnology, from medical and scientific to computers/hardware.  The program recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in India based on their percentage revenue growth over the past three financial years.

Read more about GoodWorkLabs growth story here

New-age web, mobile, and software technology company GoodWorkLabs was at YourStory TechSparks 2016 here in Bangalore, India. The event took place on the 30th of September and 1st of October and aimed to bring together the best technology thought leaders and cutting-edge tech companies from across the country together onto one platform. TechSparks is hosted by the News and Media website YourStory and helps create a leveled platform for industry leaders to talk about the latest developments in Technology and focuses on discussing and effectively meeting the needs of the tech and IT industry.

GoodWorkLabs CEO, Vishwas Mudagal, was invited by TechSparks to be a part of a panel discussion on successfully scaling the SMAC world. Read more about the story here!

CEO Vishwas Mudagal spoke about scaling in the SMAC world.

GoodWorkLabs team at YourStory TechSparks 2016

GoodWorkLabs is a multi-million-dollar web and mobile technology solution provider.

Based out of Bangalore, India, and San Franciso, CA, GoodWorkLabs provides cutting-edge tech solutions to Fortune 500 companies from around the world

GoodWorkLabs CEO, Vishwas Mudagal, takes part in a panel discussion at TechSparks 2016.

Instrumental in developing new-age web and mobile solutions, GoodWorkLabs were present as technology thought leaders at the TechSparks 2016 event.

The UX Design Awards is an annual event hosted by the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ) at the IFA in Berlin, Germany. The honor is bestowed upon successful product solutions that encompass holistic design with special importance placed on people and user experience. The EkStep Genie app, which was designed and developed by GoodWorkLabs, was nominated for this prestigious award. The app was selected based on its exceptionally user centric design, and providing an effortless user experience.

The app was built by GoodWorkLabs for the e-learning company, Ekstep. The Genie app is aimed at children between the ages of 5 and 12, and specifically developed to help create equitable learning opportunities for children in underprivileged areas.

Read more about the UX Design Awards.

The Google Mobile Academy held an event on the 1st of Septermber in Delhi, India, which was aimed at discussing the future of mobile web and mobile web technology. As a Google Developer Agency Partner, GoodWorkLabs was an integral part of the event. The CEO of the company, Vishwas Mudagal was invited by the Google Mobile Academy to extend his expertise as a technology thought leader in the field of web and mobile technology development.

With primary focus on how the web and mobile technology sector works and understanding the prognostic needs of the market, here is what he had to say:

Vishwas Mudagal at the Google Mobile Academy event in Delhi.

• State of the Mobile Web in India: do you think the current Mobile web and app experiences are doing justice to the customer’s expectations?

Vishwas: To be honest, it’s not meeting the expectations if you look at more mature markets like the US and Europe. However, mobile apps are better compared to Mobile web currently. Mobile web currently lacks several key ingredients that will let users access the content and features seamlessly. Few aspects are – 1. slow loading 2. poor UX/UI and navigation 3. poor networks, bandwidth. 4. low-quality devices with majority of users. 5. lack of offline access , etc.

• What are some of the most common mistakes you’ve seen people in the industry make with respect to their mobile web strategy? What KPI’s do you feel a company should define to measure the success of a mobile web product.

Vishwas: The most common issue we face is the lack of understanding how and why mobile web is critical to the strategy and business growth. Mobile web hasn’t got the due attention it needs and most clients don’t have a special focus for it. Only after Google has been giving preference to responsive websites, businesses have moved towards responsive websites. This is a positive development. But still there is special emphasis on key parameters like –

1. Page speed / loading time
2. Ease of navigation
3. Push notification
4. offline availability
5. conversion ratio – to get user do a transaction or sign up, etc.
6. reduce bounce rate
7. increase time spent on the site
8. measuring increase in business transaction through mobile
9. percentage of business / traffic / users coming from mobile

We need the right mandate, financing and manpower to get the mobile web strategy right. This lack of investment is another issue. It’s not a one time activity, it needs us to continuously monitor and optimise the way our mobile web product works.

• How important is speed in a client’s m web strategy / asset ?

Vishwas: Speed is the most important criteria. Especially if the website is transactional in nature, like a ticket booking or e-commerce site. People are not patient enough to deal with slow loading.

With the availability of AMP + PWA combination, now we have plenty of ammunition to address this concern. This was not the case before.

“Design is make or break for the mobile web,” says Vishwas Mudagal, CEO GoodWorkLabs.

• It’s common knowledge that agencies like you all are often operating under various constraints, imposed by clients. Have you ever found any such constraint to affect the quality of the mobile web element of the product you’re building out?

Vishwas: I have tried to answer some of the aspects previously with respect to a special mandate or investment available for the mobile web. Budgets, time and resources are a major constraint with many clients.

Also they dont understand why they need to spend money on good UX/UI. Because the talent in UX/UI is expensive, agencies struggle to allocate expensive resources and end up delivering not-so-great UX/UI. This will ultimately affect the brand, user engagement, KPIs, and even the business. Just to save little money, business end up making huge losses but they never realise it. Because of this, it is important for the CMOs and CTOs to ensure the top management in the company understands the seriousness of mobile web.

• I’d like to focus on one particular topic that can make it a lot easier to develop a responsive experience: design. Do you have any specific recommendations to designers and product managers on that front?

Vishwas: Design is make or break for the mobile web. We have to invest the right amount of time, money and talent into this, else the whole strategy fails.

When it comes to mobile, the expectations are quite high from the general users, because mobile web is competing with the native mobile apps. One recommendation is to bridge the gap between the two with similar navigation, keeping native OS in mind, making it super-responsive which feels as though the app was tailor made for that device, bring in certain personalised content, creating a great look-n-feel, etc.

Another aspect is to understand who are the primary, secondary and tertiary audience. The design should be always ‘user-centric,’ hence understanding who is your user is the key. Then you build the user journeys around the business objectives your web product is supposed to fullfil. Look at creating the right information architecture and information hierarchy.

Because the real estate on the devices is too small, we need to know which data or action is primary, and what is secondary. etc. (I can always discuss the Lean UX strategy of getting this right)

• I know the dynamic between an agency and a client varies significantly from project to project. Do you have any suggestions for potential clients on how to get the most out of their engagement with you?

Vishwas: Effective requirement gathering, expectation setting, best practices in terms of Lean UX, Agile software development (iterative process), clear mandate from client, etc. are very critical. We have seen that when clients are not clear on what they want, the project becomes very expensive and time consuming. So its important for client to do their homework, in terms of requirements, product positioning, feature set, roadmap, go to market strategy. This clarity will go a long way.

Secondly, the right amount of onsite and onshore resources are critical. Distance between a client and vendor team might create problem in KT and project management. So, for critical phases, sitting together helps a lot.

•  Final words: are you bullish on the mobile web?

Vishwas: Absolutely, it’s a no brainer that mobile web is the logical thing to do and it will evolve in terms of technology support (now we have PWA, responsive web, AMP, etc.) to make it really awesome for almost all types of businesses and portals.

The event hosted some of the most eminent names from the web and mobile technology sector who contributed their on-field industry expertise to the Google knowledge bank. GoodWorkLabs CEO, Vishwas Mudagal, was invited to be a part of the panel discussion at the event to help understand the state of mobile web in India. As a web and mobile technology thought leader, Vishwas spoke about the future of mobile web and conveyed the need for rapid advancements and knowledge sharing in the mobile web technology sector.

Click here to read Vishwas Mudagal’s Panel Discussion at the Google Mobile Academy!

GoodWorkLabs stall at the Google Mobile Academy Event

GoodWorkLabs was invited to be a part of the event to extend our expertise as mobile web technology experts

The GoodWorkLabs team was present at the Google Mobile Academy event as Google Developer Agency Partners

Experts in the field of Mobile Web made their presence felt at the event.

GoodWorkLabs CEO, Vishwas Mudagal was invited to share his opinion as a technology thought leader.

The panel discussion was aimed at understanding the future of mobile web in the Indian market.

Vishwas Mudagal spoke about the importance of fast and accessible mobile web technology and the need to accelerate this tech.

GoodWorkLabs is a market leader in providing rapidly deployable and beautifully developed Mobile and Web Applications.

Bangalore/San Francisco – 21st September 2016

GoodWorkLabs announced that they have been awarded the Red Herring Asia Top 100. A prestigious recognition, Red Herring is one of the World’s Leading innovation and technology magazines. Hand-picked by their editorial board for being one of Asia’s most promising companies set to take the tech world by storm, GoodWorkLabs set themselves apart as thought leaders in the sphere of web, mobile, and software development.

Since 1996, Red Herring has made a mark in the world of business innovation for recognizing promising companies that are breaking boundaries and showing rapid development in their space of expertise. Red Herring Asia Top 100 2016 enlisted over 2000 privately financed companies in Asia, and through rigorous benchmarks based on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technological innovation, business model, and market penetration, awards the Top 100 for their exceptional growth and promise.

Vishwas Mudagal, CEO and Co-Founder, GoodWorkLabs said, “We are honoured to have been declared winners for this most prestigious award that recognizes the fastest growing and the most innovative companies in Asia. We have grown tremendously since the last year and continue showing a positive revenue growth of 500% year on year. With this rate of growth, we have on-boarded large-scale clients globally and will continue to design and build futuristic technology for the world.”

“In 2016, selecting the top achievers was difficult as always,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “The variety, depth, disruption and traction we saw from the early stage companies to those with significant scale made 2016 a great vintage to judge. The Asia winners are representative of the amazing ecosystem that never ceases to astound, with new and experienced entrepreneurs continuing to push the barriers of innovation. As one of the winners, GoodWorkLabs should be proud of its accomplishment.”

Here is a complete list of Red Herring Asia Top 100 2016 Winners.