Keeping Faith in an Age of Uncertainty- repost from PD&D Magazine June 2011

The past few months have seen an attack on one of our spin-off businesses by the one who was entrusted to lead it.

I am sure that historians would argue but from the perspective of an old man in AD 2011, I can’t think of a more unsettled, more uncertain period — at least within my […]

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PCD Partners in Open Innovation

PCD, Inc.- Partners in Open Innovation
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Pcd overview january 2011
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Mike Rainone’s Ten Steps to Out-of-the-Box Thinking (And perhaps a new career elsewhere!)

1)     Out-of-the-box thinking is a way of life.
 
 You can’t just switch it on, you gotta live it! Be spontaneous, change the way you do things. New car, new paths, new girlfriend, boyfriend, shave your hair, get a mohawk, BE DIFFERENT, do something different every day! Get props for your office. Populate your life space with […]

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Worms and Innovation

A reprint from Product Design and Development Magazine March 2011 
 
Patience, scholarship, an open-minded passion, and self-created luck; perhaps these more than genius are the keys to solving the toughest problems — the problems that matter.
At 62 years old, I am pretty hard to surprise — or shock for that matter. My sense of humor is […]

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Active Water Sciences - A PCD Commercialization Project


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Food and Jobs on Jobs

A reprint from Product Design and Development Magazine,  Feb 2011

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by Mike Rainone, Co-Founder, PCDworksI came across a few things in life that bear comment this month. One leads into the same rant from last month about Silicon Valley. The other is an optimistic story about my recent experience at the National Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers […]

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Fear and Loathing in Redwood City

This is a reprint from Mike’s December column in Product Design & Development Magazine:Most companies wouldn’t know how to innovate if the opportunity bit them on the leg.
By Mike Rainone, Co-Founder of PCDworksLast column, I mentioned that our spin-off company, Active Water Sciences (AWS), was a runner up in the Environmental […]

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