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Business: Turning Products into Companies

A practitioner playbook from Michael Skok’s Startup Secrets series — feature vs product vs company, minimum viable segment, slippery products, and how SolidWorks scaled with 1503 while Actuality Systems taught the hard lessons of tech looking for a market.

AI Playbook2026-07-1915 min readintroductory

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A practitioner playbook from Michael Skok’s Startup Secrets series — feature vs product vs company, minimum viable segment, slippery products, and how SolidWorks scaled with 1503 while Actuality Systems taught the hard lessons of tech looking for a market.

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