by Minter Dial | Jul 8, 2018 | Health, Minter Dialogue, New Tech, Podcast, Sports
Minter Dialogue with Helene Guillaume, WILD Helene Guillaume is co-founder and CEO of WILD, a health tech startup backed by Entrepreneur First, pioneering in creating pre-emptive, preventative care for athletes. Specifically, WILD collects various data inputs and uses...
by Minter Dial | Mar 1, 2018 | Leadership, Sports
When a team punches above its weight This has to be one of the most enduring challenges for any business whether small or large. I was struck by the Bill Pennington article in the NYT, “The Ski Team That Sleeps Together Wins a Lot of Gold Medals” outlining...
by Minter Dial | Jul 25, 2017 | Sports
Last week, I wrote a post about my experience at the Wimbledon Championships 2017 with IBM and their data center. One of the questions I posed the IBM team was whether we could find and use data with a purpose? Specifically, I was hoping to find numbers...
by Minter Dial | Jul 19, 2016 | Sports
For the last couple of years, I have been the owner of a ‘connected’ racquet by Babolat. After a few technical hiccoughs (Connected Pure Drive), I now have a fully functioning and new Babolat Pure Drive Play (left). Outside of the fact that the racquet...
by Minter Dial | Mar 10, 2016 | Internet of Things, Sports
[Check for the update at the end of the post] With the rise of smart devices, the internet of things and connected objects, we are seeing many brands jump into the foray. For the last few years, I have been able to geek out AND play tennis (two of my...
by Minter Dial | May 5, 2014 | Sports
In a prior post, I did a comparison chart between the Nike Fuelband and Fitbit. I looked at the features and benefits of each. I also compared the measurements that each provides in common: calories and steps. The only catch was that, last time, I wore each...