Early stage startups could simply skip all the analytics and do more qualitative UX research with smaller numbers of people they actually interact with in a hum

Early stage startups could simply skip all the analytics and do more qualitative UX research with smaller numbers of people they actually interact with in a human way and use large stats for things that actually matter like sales and revenue etc. The whole idea that you need all the analytics is at least overblown and suffers from the streetlight effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect