Building a SaaS Company with Operational Discipline: Betterworks CEO Kris Duggan (Part 1)

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Kleiner invested $15 million in Bettelworks on a concept. It’s an unusual financing that only experienced entrepreneurs can pull off. Read how Kris is building the company.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Kris Duggan: I was born in Australia. My parents are Australian. When I was five, we moved to Texas because my dad had an opportunity to relocate with the chemical company that he worked for. I grew up in Houston and actually went back to Australia for a year but then, ultimately, moved to California for most of high school and college. That was in Southern California. About 15 years ago, I moved up to Northern California. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Disrupt NY 2016

This feature from TechCrunch looks at the highlights of Disrupt NY 2016, the three-day conference held last week in Brookklyn, New York. The winner of the Disrupt Hackathon was  AlexaSite, which lets designers update websites using their voice. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Interop 2016

The 30th version of the Interop conference held in Las Vegas last week focused on promoting interoperability among Internet of Things devices. This feature from NetworkWorld looks at the hottest products featured at the conference. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.  >>>

Catching Up On Readings: May Day

This feature from CNN looks at the significance of May Day, which is celebrated both as a seasonal celebration and as the International Workers’ Day. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Creative Economy

This feature from TechCrunch looks at how the automation revolution will shape the future and change what it means to be employable. It will open the scope of creative work that requires human touch and cannot be replicated by machines. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Minecraft Generation

This feature from The New York Times Magazine looks at how Minecraft, a clunky Swedish game, is teaching millions of children to master the digital world. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Fintech in 2016

This feature from TechCrunch looks at how 2016 is going to shape up with continued investment and innovation in payments, cryptocurrency, retail financial services, institutional financial services, and capital formation (equity financing). For this week’s posts click on  the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Data Warehouse Disruptions 2016

This feature from Information Week looks at disruption in the data warehouse market and how traditional and new vendors have shifted their placements in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report for 2016. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>