Video: Does my fridge need twitter?

February 12, 2013 at 10:10 AM
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Tom Coates is the Founder of Product Club and has a long background in social, local and future media. He ran R&D for BBC Radio before building online communities for emap and TimeOut. He was part of the Tech Development team at Yahoo, launching the Fire Eagle location service, and later as Head of Product for Yahoo Brickhouse. He is an advisor for several start-ups including Lanyrd and his own Product Club, which focuses on New Product Development and Invention.

In this talk from our product management conference Mind the Product 2012, he discusses the internet of things – how ever cheaper network hardware is bringing every day devices online – and whether that's a good thing or not.

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Martin Eriksson

Martin Eriksson

Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams (O'Reilly, 2017).

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