Golden Square - Joy at Work

Dr. Silky Mahajan, the entrepreneur of Foods & Nutrition Clinic, is one of our esteemed clients from the JP Nagar branch of Golden Square. Starting with a basic Snap office membership in 2015 where she met her clients on an hourly basis, she has now upgraded to a fully-fledged customized cabin.  Here’s what she had to say about having her office with Golden Square: When your foundation is strong, you can grow as big as possible. Golden Square is my foundation and I’m happy being here. You are alone when you start something, but you don’t feel alone when you’re at Golden Square. This is because the staff and the people here are very welcoming. I moved to Bangalore from Punjab in the year 2012. I was totally new to the city and didn’t know how my business would grow here. I found a lot of options as to where to set up my office in Bangalore, but I was concerned as to whether or not the location and the office space would be suitable for our business req...

Only I can change my life, no one can do it for me – Carol Burnett This statement is 100% correct with a small exception. Though it is me who chooses to travel the path of life, it is destiny that shows me the right direction at the right time. It was 10:22 AM on a Wednesday Morning; I was in my Golden Square office, waiting to attend an important meeting in the conference room. I heard a knock on the door; ‘Sir would you like some coffee?’ said Shwetha, the office assist with a broad cheerful smile on her face. I remember the first day I met her at Golden Square; it was the same smile that cheered up my mornings during the unforgettable struggle in my life. By now she knew exactly what I would prefer for a morning dose. ‘Yes please, I would like a cup of coffee now’. Looking at the four walls and these valuable files on my table, I slowly slipped down my memory lane from where I started this enthralling journey. I met Somshekar at the Golden Square premises and since then we bega...

Nesting multiple companies from diversified industries under one roof can bring a lot of synergies. This is a story about a Digital Marketing company who was using Golden Square Prime center as their regular office. We at Golden Square always try to help our members in whichever way possible and just not with office space. Our facilitators do lend their hand in helping make connections and sometimes bring in business too. One of Golden Square members was searching for a marketing firm that could take care of their online marketing strategies. Like it is said, the thing you are searching for everywhere is right under your nose sometimes and here we got everything a business needs under Golden Square’s roof. The Golden Square Facilitator then introduced both the companies and helped them do business together. Nothing can be better than having your marketing partner under the same roof, this makes collaboration and communication so easy  In short, expect more productivity, bette...

We have heard many inspirational stories, many uplifting quotes and of course witnessed some of them happen in recent times. Golden Square has its own history of building the future of many companies by providing them the basic necessities needed to run the show. One such inspiring story for the day is of a leading clinical research company that already had almost 10,000 square feet of office space in a prime property like Divyashree Chambers near Richmond Road. The “ABC.CO*” lately confronted an issue regarding employees working in night shift. There was a construction activity going on near the office building during the nights that interrupted the calls of the team. When this issue became bothersome, the company started looking for a temporary office space that would aid them in delivering the projects on-time. This is when Golden Square lent a helping hand. Within a course of 2-3 days the entire setup was made and ready to occupy. The team then continued its operations smo...

A co-working space is definitely trending in the current times. We all want to skip the hassles of running a full-time office and remain in our own comforts. But is that all what a co-working space do? Well, Golden Square is more than just a co-working space. They are the saviors in crisis. One such recent chaotic happening was the cyclone in Tamil Nadu. Disys India Pvt Ltd was a victim of this natural calamity. They suffered the loss of workspace and time; were unable to progress further due to the conditions back at Tamil Nadu. But found help when they laid their hopes in Golden Square’s serviced office spaces. “ Thanks for the services provided during the emergency situation that lasted during 13th-16th Dec 2016. Our team was able to deliver as expected by the clients without any SLA miss. All this was possible only because of the dedication that Golden Square showed, in fact, they began work at around 3 AM as we approached them. We highly appreciate you for taking our last mi...

“It needs nerves of steel to follow your dreams,” says Meenakshi Shenoy, Founder of Corporate Database Recruitment Consultants, a senior level search firm.  While she may be talking about the start-up boom in Bangalore, the statement could well apply to her journey as an entrepreneur. “The timing was right,” she says, recalling those early days of entrepreneurship.  “IT was booming and there were plenty of opportunities.”  Of course, there were challenges too. You have to be in the driver’s seat and never lose focus says Meenakshi.  She started small, with just 4-5 clients. Initially, clients would seek her services to recruit Project Managers or Programmers, but gradually as they saw her passion for recruitment and her professional services, the requirements and the clients grew bigger. Today, she takes great pride in being a boutique consulting firm catering to a very niche market. We caught up with Meenakshi Shenoy for a free-wheeling chat to understa...

Citrya means “Brilliant” and that’s how they aspire to be – the people at Citrya believe that the marketplace is crowded with solutions and products each solving a specific or a particular class of problems. Not all of them help “Make life easier” and their endeavor is to find those gaps and create dramatic value that will enhance the utility of the ecosystem of existing products exponentially.  Okay, yes, that sounds intense and confusing possibly, but to crystallize it, they are in search of solving and innovating in small, but dramatic ways and are humble enough to acknowledge that they don’t aspire to create the next path breaking invention in human history, although they would love it if they could actually, prove their humility wrong! Below is a short excerpt from the interaction we had with Mr. Krishna Mitter CEO of Citrya Innovations.   How long you've been in this business?? After over 17+ years in a multi-national, we started a business to live...

They have set out to bring in a change in the way Industries and Commercial establishments meet their energy requirements. While generating revenue with the business model, the endeavor is to reduce India’s crude oil bill to the most possible extent. Persept Solar is an Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore / NSRCEL incubated Independent Power Producing [IPP] company offering  ”Solar PV Power as a Service”. The green power from renewable energy source offered by Persept Solar aims to reduce the dependence on the expensive captive diesel power plants used by Indian Industries, Commercial Establishments due to the ever-increasing power requirements. Persept Solar has been in business for almost 2 and a half years. It was founded by two IIMB Alumni, with the firm belief that Solar Power can address a significant part of the existing demand-supply gap in the country. We recently had a brief interactive session with the core team comprising Mr. Srinivas ...