Many of us have ideas for starting a company up, but for those of you that haven’t done it yet…there are a lot of costs that you may not be thinking of. A post over at DigitalMediaWire that was written by Glenn Kelman of Redfin and Guy Kawasaki covers just this topic. There are two parts, the first covering all the numbers, and part two is the lessons you need to know. The numbers are really interesting because it covers what they estimated the costs per employee were to launch Redfin, and then what it actually costs.

It turns out they actually spent less, especially on some of the bigger expenses such as accounting and legal. If you are thinking about starting a company, or actually going through with it, make sure to give this article a read.