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On December 6th, GoodWorkLabs announced one more accolade to their name – The Red Herring 100 Global Award. We are ONE of the six companies from India who have won this validation.

Red Herring’s Top 100 Global list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

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. We have been able to catch the attention of Fortune 500 clients who have engaged with us based on our DNA of creating cutting edge products. The Red Herring 100 Global recognition adds a proud feather to our cap recognizing us and our significant growth from a bootstrapped startup company. Our endeavour now will be to become a global powerhouse with strong business units in different industry verticals and geographies.”

Vishwas Mudagal, CEO and Co-Founder of GoodWorkLabs received this award at Los Angels on behalf of the team.

“This is a defining event for GoodWorkLabs!” expressed Vishwas Mudagal, CEO and Co-Founder of GoodWorkLabs. He adds, “We are decisive about addressing the strong demand we have received 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. With a successful track record, we intend to keep the momentum going. We will continue to grow rapidly in terms of revenue, headcount and client base in multiple geographies.”

“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across the globe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe GoodWorkLabs embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. GoodWorkLabs should be proud of its accomplishment.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track records and standing of startups relative to their peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models from around the world.

Vishwas Mudagal, CEO and Co-founder of GoodWorkLabs, wrote an article on CNN IBNLive.com about what it takes to emerge a winner in 2016! Here are excerpts of the article.

If you ask me what is the secret ingredient to achieving anything of importance in life, my answer would be action. It’s above everything else because you can talk about ways to deal with things, come up with plans, feel bad or good, complain or laugh, dance or limp your way around things but if you don’t act nothing can ever happen. Without exception everybody fails in their lives, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world.

There are broadly two kinds of people in this world—the talkers and the doers. The talkers talk all the way but get nothing done. They always want to do things but never do. They either live in the past or in the future, but never in the present. They have one reason or the other to not do something or postpone things. Action seems to be missing in their lives.

The doers, on the other hand, are the ones who get things done. They don’t like to talk too much but would like their action to speak for them. They go about their life doing one task at a time, and they do it better than anyone else. They don’t care what others are doing or saying. And in the process, they help others around them and become a team player and a go-to person of the group. These are the kind of people you would like to associate yourself with wherever you go, and you must consider yourself lucky to be in the company of doers, because these are the people who run your team, your family, your company and even the world. Talking doesn’t run this world, doing does.

Ofcourse, we have a category who does both, talking and doing. In fact, it’s also important to have effective communication to succeed in a task but the point we are driving home here is action. Whether you can talk or not, doesn’t matter. What matters is, whether you can act or not. The ability or the inability to act, differentiates these two categories.

Here comes the good news! While it’s true that a doer can degrade to become a talker (if he/she loses motivation), a talker can also become a doer if he/she truly desires. How then can one emerge as a winner by becoming a doer rather than ending up a talker? Can 2016 be different for you? Yes, it can. Let’s try to follow few simple and basic steps…

Read the rest of the story here on CNN IBNLive.com

Vishwas Mudagal, CEO of GoodWorkLabs and Best-selling Author, was on air on Radio Indigo 91.9 FM, Bangalore’s popular English music station. He spoke about GoodWorkLabs, his journey of becoming a successful entrepreneur and a best-selling author and his favourite songs with popular RJ Shagufta Ahmed.

The leading outsourced product development company GoodWorkLabs was featured in the anchor story in The Telegraph, the largest newspaper of the Eastern India. Here are excerpts from the story –

Start young, take risks and break out of the rut! Vishwas Mudagal did just that to have his share of ups and downs before tasting sweet success. Now, the 32-year-old entrepreneur-writer-motivation speaker wants the younger generation in the Northeast to dream big and follow its passion from college itself.

“The idea behind GoodWorkLabs was to provide high-end technology solutions to other companies. Today, we have 20 clients, including Flipkart and Samsung. About 80 per cent of our clients are based outside the country,” he said.

On what makes his firm acceptable in the global market, Mudagal said, “It’s about aesthetic sense, scalability, innovation and the ability to build a product incrementally. We believe we have acquired these traits and our clients have responded well. Not many IT service companies have in-depth knowledge of building a product, as doing that requires going through a gamut of services over a period of time.

The Northeast, he said, has a huge potential for entrepreneurship but needs to have the right momentum. “The impetus on entrepreneurship as of now is not there. There is the need for developing infrastructure and building a marketing campaign. Having said that, the region has abundant human resources. A lot of young people from the Northeast have done well in cities outside the region,” he said.

Read the complete story “Breaking Out Of The Rut Mantra For Success” Story here.

CEO of GoodWorkLabs, Vishwas Mudagal on a recent visit to Guwahati spoke to The Assam Tribune (the biggest newspaper in North East) on how to give a push to the economy and IT sector in the North East. Excerpts below –

“Investors want proper infrastructure and investor-friendly atmosphere. But, the State Governments of the region have not been able to provide these to the investors so far,” Mudagal claimed.

The IT Expert, however, said that his company is willing to invest in the North East especially in the software and mobile applications. “We need to conduct a feasibility study on the North-east to carry forward our plans,” he informed. The Bangalore-based IT company has been providing IT solutions to several leading companies, including Samsung, Flipkart and Klub Hub.

Mudagal also appealed to the youth to start business by utilizing available resources. “The region has vast resources, so the younger generation should start business instead of Government’s jobs. But at the same time the banks and other financial institutions should also play a key role in extending their credit support to youth,” he observed.

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-adventurer. An embodiment of the young, ambitious, and restless India, Rishi sets out to revolutionize the gaming industry and bring the dawn of a new era in gaming, but something somewhere goes terribly wrong and, like dominoes, the blocks of his life fall down one after the other.

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 Hindu – A Twist Of Fate

The New Indian Express – A Journey Of A Lifetime

Yourstory.com – How Serial Entrepreneur Vishwas Mudagal Lost His Religion

Final Part (3) of  Confluence Of Big Data and Mobile – The Next Revolution by Vishwas Mudagal, CEO of GoodWorkLabs

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Utilisation of Big Data can help companies increase their profits and make money from mobile advertising. While media ads moved from traditional print medium to web medium, in the coming years, ad spends will move from the web towards mobile. According to eMarketer report, mobile ad spending will increase from $8.4 billion in 2012 to $37 billion in 2016.

Johann Evans, CFO of Unified Data Management Specialist Cherry Olive mentioned that Facebook has implemented Big Data to improve its mobile advertising significantly. He also stated that, Facebook eventually entered the mobile advertising arena with a bang after lingering for a while, with the help of Big Data. The massive data analytics warehouse of Facebook provided the much required foundation for the research which has proved that by investing in Big Data, one can certainly reap profits. Today, mobile-only users on a monthly basis for Facebook are at a staggering 254 million and mobile ads account for 49% of ad revenue.

Health care

Today, healthcare organisations have started leveraging Big Data and mobile technologies to capture detailed and relevant information of the patients in order to get a comprehensive view into patient engagement & outreach, population health management and care coordination. On the other hand, wearables such as JawBone (bands that can be worn on the wrist), Samsung Smart-watch or not to forget Google Glass, transmit a lot of data to mobile apps through which one can keep track of calories burned, sleep cycles, glasses of water consumed, pulse, temperature and so on. By successfully harnessing the big data, one can unleash the potential for achieving some of the critical objectives for healthcare transformation, including increased access to healthcare, collaboration for improving patient care and outcomes and for building sustainable healthcare systems.

These were some of the applications in different sectors, but the uses of mobile big data are myriad in practically every industry and they are only going to increase. The confluence of Mobiles and Big Data is still at a nascent stage but it is rapidly growing, spawning a new service or a product almost every day to help our lives get better. But our current technologies have to transcend and evolve to even reap the benefits of the vast data that is going to emerge over the next decade. Even our workforce and our skills have to be upgraded to match this data explosion. On the other hand, it might come at a cost of our privacy. If all our actions are fed as data to a series of big data algorithms, companies might watch our every step and try to control / influence our minds for commercial purposes. So, it’s imperative that privacy laws evolve along with the growth of big data and its applications.

It’s safe to conclude that fuelled by the innovation and growth of mobile industry, big data will give rise to a ton of companies that will focus on giving every one of us a personalised life—personalised pricing, experiences, entertainment, education, healthcare, assistance, products, services—everything will be one to one and that is the beautiful of Mobile Big Data. It is the next revolution!

About Big Data services at GoodWorkLabs

GoodWorkLabs is a top outsourced product development company that is providing cutting edge consulting, services and product development in the mobile big data space. We are helping companies push the limits in big data and we are witnessing a strong growth in this sector. For consultation on big data on mobile, contact us.

Check out previous parts of the article at, Part 1 and Part 2.