Recently, ET Panache had a friendly conversation with Vishwas Mudagal, CEO, GoodWorkLabs. They featured his interest in music and movies to name a few.
Read the entire article on the Economic Times here.
Our CEO Vishwas Mudagal’s LinkedIn article got picked up by Economic Times recently. The post he wrote on the pitfalls of not being truthful in interview process received massive response on Linkedin and social media.
ET Wealth ran the story yesterday which re-emphasizes the fact that lying in an interview will not take you far in your professional career.
In the article featured on Economic Times he reiterates his belief of being completely honest in an interview. He recalls one of the interviews he took on Skype where the interviewer was constantly searching for answers on Google.
Vishwas goes on to say that an interview is a two-way decision-making process. We should be using the opportunity to understand as to how the parties will benefit mutually. If we are not honest with each other, then the interview process seems pointless.
Being successful in an interview with fake attributes might get you the job, but sooner or later the truth will catch up with you.
Employers would eventually verify your credentials after the initial interview. They may possibly contact your previous employers and references. You definitely do not want to be caught lying about your professional history. The consequences are horrific and may lead a black stain on your journey as a professional.
Click to read his entire article on Economic Times.
We are super excited and thrilled to announce that GoodWorkLabs will be exhibiting at the Global Mobile App Summit event in Bangalore on July 6th and 7th. The event is going to be a big bang event with the best of industry veterans from the Mobile App town!
Spread across a period of two days, 6th and 7th July, this event is going to be a platform where all leading mobile app developers in the country will come together to share their thoughts and discuss the upcoming trends in the mobile app market.
The GoodWorkLabs team will be present on both the days – 6th & 7th July. We will be looking forward to see you there!
We will also have our CEO, Vishwas Mudagal who will deliver an interesting talk on “Top Challenges for Startup Appreneurs in 2017″.
Vishwas has over a decade of entrepreneurship experience and is currently leading GoodWorkLabs, a leading product development and tech company in India. In this panel, Vishwas is all set to share some of his insights and leadership tips to help young budding Appreneurs shape the face of technology.
If you are someone who needs that tad-bit of motivation and guidance in taking your business to the next level, then you must definitely stop by for Vishwas’s speech on 6th July at the Global Mobile App Summit in Bangalore.
Event Details:
Date: 6th July, 2017
Time:4.30 pm to 5.00 pm
Venue: Sheraton Grande Hotel, Brigade Gateway, Bangalore.
More details about the event here
We are super excited to see you at this event. For details and tickets to the event, please go here .
See you at the event!
Today was a fantastic start to a work-week. Our CEO, Vishwas Mudagal had the honor to meet the Vice President of Google India and South East Asia – Mr. Rajan Anandan at an exclusive Google certified developers meet in Bangalore.
GoodWorkLabs was one among the six certified Google Developer agencies across India and we are fortunate to be part of Google’s mission to on-board more than a billion users to the Internet. With India expanding leaps and bounds in terms of technology, Google along with its sound team of certified developer agencies want to bring a technology revolution and create amazing digital products for customers world wide.
It was a very interactive session where Mr. Rajan shared his vision of how he wants to spur a digital innovation across India and how GoodWorkLabs along with the other developer agencies could help and support Google achieve this herculean task.
The internet is soon becoming a powerful tool and recently, India is more open to a digital revolution. Be it the dramatic economic policy of demonetisation or the entire Jio revolution that has made internet and digital products available to every household, we are very positive of a change that is more inclined towards technology in the times to come.
Vishwas Mudagal, CEO of GoodWorkLabs who is excited about this initiative shares his thoughts – “As a Google partner, GoodWorkLabs is super thrilled to support Google’s mission and will work very closely with Google to build powerful technologies for users worldwide.”
The team at GoodWorkLabs is looking forward to this exciting adventure with Google.
GoodWorkLabs is happy to announce its association with TEDx Ulsoor and is also one of the sponsors for the event!
With an initiative to promote young minds to use technology for social and environmental issues, GoodWorkLabs is sponsoring the 929 Socio-Tech Hackathon conducted by TEDx Ulsoor. Also, this Hackathon is hosted at our design-inspired Coworking studio – GoodWorks CoWork.
More about the 929 Socio-Tech Hackathon:
This is a one-of-a-kind socio-tech hackathon where social and environmental issues are tackled by a combination of technical skill, data and TED talks. In this hackathon, participants will work on solving a pressing environmental or social issue, either by means of coding or a technical presentation with proper data, using a series of TED talks related to the given problem.
What do the Winners get?
The winning team will get an opportunity to pursue a 1 month internship with GoodWorkLabs. Through this internship, you will get an opportunity to work on live and real-time technology projects and get a dynamic experience of the business world.
Date and Venue details:
Date: 16th April | Sunday
Time: 9 am to 9 pm
Venue: GoodWorks CoWork, 4th floor Akshay tech park, EPIP zone, Whitefield
GoodWorkLabs has been one of the core technology partners for EkStep Foundation, an educational venture by Nandan Nilekani.
Last week, the EkStep team conducted an internal Hackathon and sources tell us that it was a pretty tough and enduring experience. But amidst all the tough competition, our engineers emerged as winners!
It was really heartening to see Mr. Nandan Nilekani congratulate our team on winning the Hackathon. We look forward to long lasting and engaging partnership with our client EkStep.
GoodWorkLabs has announced their association with the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) to develop the Star Rating for Schools app which is being funded by FedEx.
iRAP is a renowned charity dedicated to minimizing the road deaths across the globe. The Star Rating for Schools mobile app will use road inspection data which has been amalgamated over the years by measuring and determining the level of safety for school kids. This can be used both by parents and teachers as well.
iRAP gives ratings to roads across the world.
The project is funded by FedEx and will be developed by GoodWorkLabs, which has an impressive track record on delivering dynamic mapping functionality. GoodWorkLabs already has an experience of developing apps for kids. It had developed the Sesame Street game for Android and web which is fun to play but also has some serious messages about using resources carefully and sensibly.
“Every child has a right to an education. We share a unified vision of a world where all children can travel safely to and from school. We feel very privileged that GoodWorkLabs has been chosen to deliver this vital application. We look forward to make this vision a reality along with iRAP.” expressed Sonia Sharma, Founder and MD at GoodWorkLabs.
Vishwas Mudagal, CEO and Co-Founder at GoodWorkLabs emphasizes on the practical purpose for developing an app to help save kids’ lives around the world. “ We pride ourselves on our wide ranging experience in games development. In fact, gamers are among the most demanding of app users, requiring the highest levels of interactivity and responsiveness in data heavy applications and are continually pushing for improved performance. The Star Rating for Schools app will be intuitive, swift, reliable and secure. It would work on tablets and at different band widths, delivering great performance each time. In practical terms, the more data that is collected and the more schools surveyed, the more kids’ lives are going to be saved. I am delighted that iRAP has chosen to partner with GoodWorkLabs to develop the Star Rating for Schools app.”
GoodWorkLabs has worked with clients worldwide to deliver more than 100 apps and have been proud winners of multiple awards. Their expertise comes in helping the project in every step of the process from concept, through to development, launch and continuous ongoing improvement of the product.
“Over the last few months we’ve looked at many app and product developers around the world. We think that GoodWorkLabs has just the right mix of experience to help us create a truly dynamic tool that is going to deliver great results.” says, James Bradford, iRAP Global Product Director.
This week, in a press release, Google announced six more certified partner agencies as part of this program and GoodWorkLabs is one among them.
Read the full story covered in Economic Times and Indian Express here.
The Google Developers Agency Program allows companies to receive dedicated training and access to Google’s latest products and API’s, in turn enabling the companies to create world class applications.
Agencies will be able to develop their expertise in using Google technologies and will be recognized as ‘Google Developers Certified Agency’.
Additionally, developer agencies will receive world class and on the go training on latest Google APIs, developer technologies and safe practices. Apart from these, invitations to events specially designed for software development agencies, recognition and opportunity to showcase applications, participation in Early Access programs will also be a part of the program.
Launched in 2015, the Developer Agency Program impacted more than 100 apps in India last year developed by these agencies with cumulative count of over 100 million users.
“Being certified as a Google agency proves our credentials and as well as opens up opportunities for us to expand our horizons. It is indeed a proud moment for all of us.” added Sonia Sharma, founder of GoodWorkLabs.
Last week was indeed very festive at GoodWorkLabs as we celebrated 4 glorious years of success. GoodWorkLabs started out in 2013 as an outsourced product development company and through the years, we have grown as a leading technology provider in the fields of mobile apps, software products, UX/UI designs and game development.
Under the able leadership of Sonia Sharma and Vishwas Mudagal, GoodWorkLabs today is a strong family of 75+ employees and we only see this growing in the years to come.
Just like any other start-up, we at GoodWorkLabs take our party scenes pretty seriously. The entire Bangalore team gathered together and put up a great show filled with dance and fun performances. But we also did not lag behind in rewarding our Technology Superstars who demonstrated stellar performances throughout the year.
There were 3 categories of awards that were being announced –
1) The Rising Star Award
2) The Excellence Award
3) The Pinnacle Award
We vouch for our services but we value our team even more! Kudos to the entire team of GoodWorkLabs who work day in and day out to make GoodWorkLabs the best Design and Software development company in the world!
Here are some snapshots from the event:
As a young student during her engineering days, Sonia Sharma always dreamt of creating jobs rather than working for an organization as an employee. She never gave up on this dream and went on to create GoodWorkLabs, a multi-million dollar outsourced product development company.
Sonia is one of the leading women technopreneurs in the IT industry. She wanted to create a world-class product development company to build high-end products, mobile apps and games for leading companies. She sensed a dearth for qualified ‘product development’ companies and thus she established GoodWorkLabs in January 2013. Today, GoodWorkLabs is noted among the top outsourced product development companies and has recorded a 500% revenue growth year-on-year.
Today on the occasion of Women’s Day, we would like to celebrate and share her inspirational journey with the world and motivate every woman who dares to dream and make a difference!
Read this exclusive coverage on Inventiva that showcases how women like Sonia Sharma are breaking all prejudices and establishing themselves as leaders in the Technology industry!
1) Share the idea or story behind the venture – How did it come to an existence? How did you identify your co-founder?
I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. At an age of 21, during my engineering college days in a laid-back city of Shimla, my dream was to create jobs and become an entrepreneur, rather than just become another brick in the wall. I’m glad I have realized my dream by founding GoodWorkLabs.
After working for couple of startups and witnessing ‘how it’s done’ I started GoodWorkLabs in January 2013. By positioning ourselves as the ‘product’ guys in the IT services industry, we were able to bag couple of marquee clients at the very outset.
This helped us establish our credibility and there was no looking back since then. Later that year, serial entrepreneur Vishwas Mudagal also joined GoodWorkLabs which further fuelled our growth. Thus began the journey of a solid company, which has grown 500% year-on-year since its inception.
2) What were the problems you faced during the starting days and how did you resolve them?
When we were starting out, finding and hiring the right kind of talent was the biggest challenge we faced. It is ‘the’ most critical factor as it makes or breaks the company’s growth. The talent pool in India is big in terms of numbers but finding good talent is difficult. A part of it is to be blamed on our education system.
But we have created a ‘hiring philosophy’ in accordance with our objectives and growth plans. At GoodWorkLabs, we focus on hiring candidates with two qualities. One is passion – we look for people who are eager to learn, contribute and grow with a positive attitude. The second is – we look for problem solvers!
Both these philosophies together have helped us set a positive work culture and attract a crowd of like-minded people. As the saying goes, ‘birds of the same feather flock together.’
3) Where do you want to see yourself in next 5 years?
As part of future road-map for GoodWorkLabs 2.0, productizing our services was critical. We spent a lot of time brainstorming with our clients, industry experts and our internal teams and what we realized was that in order to reach out to a larger audience across the globe, we would have to build a robust and scalable platform which both customers and businesses could use to launch their mobile applications, to automate work-flow processes and to integrate their business solutions.
This led us to build a phenomenal enterprise mobility platform called GoodWorks Mobility.
We will be launching GoodWorks Mobility shortly. What’s amazing about this launch is that we have already successfully signed up marquee clients for pilots and have further tied up with industry biggies to take our product to the market with several partnerships. That’s a super validation that the product will succeed because we have been very practical in our approach.We are very excited about this launch and this product will be most probably handled by a separate entity. With this move, we will become a group of companies.
Promoting Growth in 2017: Turning into Angel Investors
In January, 2017 Vishwas and I decided to become Angel Investors. We are all set to mentor upcoming startups and extend our expertise and thought Leadership to help businesses grow. Money is just one of the many benefits that startups would get under our mentorship. Startups would also get access to a bunch of other benefits such as valuable network, free office space, technology and design consulting, PR and marketing.
Bangalore is a breeding ground for startups and both Vishwas and I have been enthusiastic about creating an ecosystem for startups to succeed. So anyone who is a startup or is someone with an idea but unsure if it is business worthy, then GoodWorkLabs is offering them an opportunity to begin through our coworking venture GoodWorks CoWork
Five Years down the line:
GoodWorkLabs is striving to become the global leader in the innovation outsourcing space as we continue to take up complex technology and design work on outcome basis for customers worldwide. As part of our expansion plan, we will increase the headcount in our US office in the San Francisco bay area. We have significant demand for our services in that area. Also, we will continue to expand in key geographies around the world including Europe and APAC, and by bringing out products and solutions for different industry verticals. We intend to scale by keeping our DNA intact.
4) What do you feel is the major difference between entrepreneurs and those who work for someone else?
Passion and perseverance are the two traits that differentiate entrepreneurs from the rest. We end up looking out for the same in our employees also but it’s very hard to find.
5) If you had the chance to start your career over again, what would you do differently?
I don’t think I’ll do anything differently. I have enjoyed my journey so far… I have experimented and failed before finding success in GoodWorkLabs. I feel that failures are very important as they make you who you are. Even if I had started off my career differently, I am sure I would have experimented and would have had my share of failures before finding success.
6) Anything, you would like to say to our readers or upcoming entrepreneurs?
In my industry, quality and on-time delivery is very important, which translates into the trust (or lack of it) your customer has in your company.
Always ensure that your processes are in place and that you invest in a team, which can deliver. No matter how unique your idea may look like, no matter how much funding you have raised, no matter how much user base you have, if you are not clear about how you are going to make money, you cannot sustain yourself.
Once your idea goes through the above litmus test, it’s very important to figure out how you are going to execute it. A solid idea needs a solid team, which can execute it. It’s very important to take a calculated risk and your idea should be validated before you go full throttle about it. We have often helped many startups with their minimal viable products which they used to test the waters. Upon getting positive signals after user validation, many of our customers were able to raise funds and build the business of their dreams.
If you would like to read the entire interview with Inventiva, please click here.
