Sometimes systems can make all difference. It could be because you keep pushing your actions on a system that is second to another. Systems make the difference between the football team that lost and the one that won. They both hit it off with massive action but one of them feeds off an inferior strategy.

In product development, especially web products, there's a virtuous cycle:

Release -> Get Feedback -> Tweak -> Release -> Get Feedback -> Tweak -> Release...

To get the cycle rolling, Release.

There's a great quote by Ray Bradbury, "You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

I like it. Why do you need business cards and name plates before you've proven you can generate some cash?

To me, it's about a cycle. Act, then systemize. Get it on autopilot and move onto your next challenge.

'Build first then sell', applied to the development of business processes as opposed to products, and valid for the same reasons.
In developing products, the only feedback that matters is that of paying customers, so developing products before you have any customers will aways lead to inferior products.

In developing business systems, the only feedback that matters is the performance of the business. It therefore follows that in order to develop business systems effectively, you need a functioning business first, from which to get the feedback.

Underestimating the power of action is a mistake. Ready, Aim - then unload all your lead on your target. You might not hit it, but it's damn better than spending hours calculating the attack path sometimes. Good shit seb.

Dilanka