PCDworks: Hardtech Basecamp Incubator for building hardware products

Donna Rainone and Mike Rainone are the founders of PCDworks. PCDworks is a technology development company that helped develop hardware for over 50 big companies in the oil and gas, transportation, healthcare and several other industries; and now helping startups with a new incubator model.

We first talk about lessons learned from building innovative hardware products for big companies; how they use principles of epistemology while developing new products; how they borrow lessons from their training in psychology, architecture and engineering in this process; challenges with innovation at big companies; and then talk about their transition to helping startups with all this experience, where we talk about their ideation sessions; how they work with founders; their observations on common mistakes that founders make in the hardware space; infrastructure they provide and related topics.

Shownotes:
- https://www.pcdworks.com
- Work with big companies
- Tracking down the best around the world
- Using psychology while working with people you don't know
- Epistemology: Everything in product development process is a hypothesis
- Ideation sessions
- Oil companies learning from human biology: Pumps and pipes conference
- Decomposing problems
- Working with startups
- Common mistakes and dipping into experiences to build better products
- How could startups work with PCDworks
-  "Letter of intent" is worth the toilet paper that it is written on
- Infrastructure at PCDworks
- Intellectual property agreements
- What would it cost to work with PCD?
- Mistakes to avoid
- Contact: https://www.pcdworks.com/contact