Tuesday, 30 June 2015

GOA's young IT Entrepreneurs

Based on the many suggestions which came up during the IT investment policy 2015 – draft, Government of Goa should think about the finalizing the same by taking one more round of reviews from the stakeholders.

Though it’s always good to take time to plan and proceed, we should be also aware that we have already lost the crucial years of time frame where creamy layer of IT flavours has been enjoyed by the other states. Today, we see 90% of the passed out graduates from different Engineering Colleges from Goa are seeking jobs in neighbouring states or abroad. Only few who have family constraints are staying back majority of them are girls. Those who opt to work from Goa are not finding adequate jobs and have to forcefully get in to some business start up. There are many Goan small entrepreneurs like us GoITWay who have done a set up in different cities of Goa such as Margao, Panjim, Ponda, Mapusa,Verna, Provorim, Kundaim etc. Some have manged to start working from home as well. This is a good thing about IT industry that you can work from anywhere and the client does not really bothers where you are based at. We do not see marketing happening in the IT industry going door to door or personal visits at the clients place unless it is really required for requirement gathering.  Today we see in Goa the small scale business players are  into website development project in Goa, custom software application development may it be web application or standalone desktop application for small business organizations in Goa. Very few are in to mobile application development from Goa. They are today happy with small little business they are getting from the Goan local industry mainly associated with hospitality services connected to Goa tourism sector. The focus is on business coming from hotel industry and the little bit from the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry may ask for services such as say hotel website development, e-commerce website designing, domain registration, web hosting, Inventory management software, CRM, ERP packages development etc.

Those who have not registered themselves with the Department of Information technology should get registered and this will give a good picture to the Government if they have to be considered for any kind of help which can be offered in order to grow. Though it may look allz well for working form the remote location and with not so good infrastructure as regards office space and working environment, as the team size increases and the job responsibilities increases, one should be more organized and become self reliable to deliver quality software products to the customer. When it comes to a sizably bigger projects and bigger investment for the client, they look at the reliability and entrepreneurs capacity to sustain in the market for longer number of years since software development or IT services is just not about developing and installing a product but also providing and maintaining healthy support relationship with the customer.

From
GoITWay
Goa’s best Software Development  team
www.goitway.com

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