A big cost is employees. Last time I checked (months ago) there were about 70 employees at Digg. Each employee will cost about $100,000 when you put employee

A big cost is employees. Last time I checked (months ago) there were about 70 employees at Digg. Each employee will cost about $100,000 when you put employee taxes and benefits into play. That's $7M, half the budget. The execs and top-shot coders will likely push that number up a bit.