The Software Tax Startup Founders Pay Before Making Their First Sale

₹55,000/year for Adobe. ₹4,000 for Canva Pro. Neither is necessary before you’ve validated anything Credit: Vrishbhanuja.com There’s a pattern I’ve noticed among startup founders in their first three months of building. They register the company. They set up a bank account. They buy a domain. They get hosting. And somewhere in there, before they’ve acquired a single customer or validated a single assumption, they subscribe to a design tool. Canva Pro. Adobe Creative Cloud. Sometimes both. It’s understandabl