Adjusting to New Technology
Learning how to use an entirely new tech stack because the one I was accustomed to in my over 10 years in corporate roles was far too expensive to justify for a startup without significant cash flow. Going from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice, from Outlook to Thunderbird, from the Adobe Suite to using GIMP and Photopea—the list goes on.
All of these products work on many of the same principles as their enterprise cousins, and you’re saving literally hundreds of dollars a month by making the switch to the open-source versions. However, it is incredibly difficult to adjust to that many new pieces of technology when you’ve been using essentially just variants of the same programs the entire time you’ve been working before opening your own business. Well worth it, but it still takes an adjustment period.
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