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What can startups do on big data day one?

16th September 2013

My answer to What can startups do on big data day one? on Quora

Log everything, and then forget about it. That way you’ll have data you can analyse later on, but aside from setting up logging and log storage you won’t waste any time messing around with Big Data when you haven’t yet found product-market fit.

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