
Actually, it was Voltaire that originated this quote, but it's definitely one that made me think. After all, shouldn't we execute everything we set out to do perfectly?
Nope. Not as a startup.
The notion isn't that we should settle for something that's sub-par. Instead, at this critical stage of building a company, we should be putting a very basic product in front of customers, iterating, pivoting (if necessary), and repeating steps 1 - 3. You can't do this if you spend months behind closed doors creating a perfect product. The reality is, you have no idea if what you're creating is "perfect" until you put it in front of the very people that can actually tell you: your customers.
From here on out, I'll think twice before proclaiming myself to be a perfectionist.