> The cost of software for startups is so significant that it can lead to bankruptcy. What? Here's the software you listed: Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Wind

> The cost of software for startups is so significant that it can lead to bankruptcy. What? Here's the software you listed: Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Windows, Google Apps, Evernote. All of these added together comes to less than $3000 a year per employee (and I've generously padded pricing and then rounded up). That's $250 a month per employee. I'd argue that if your startup cannot afford $250 a month per employee in software costs, then the startup is hiring too fast and cannot sustain the number of employees it has.