It's strange to meter the base cost spending $1k for domain name registration... and more than $4k in legal stuff. The base cost is mostly zero in the real world as the founders should be able to write code instead to buy it, create a basic logo with inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org) in few minutes and get a cheap hosting somewhere.

A VC with a working mind can learn this without spending $12k ;)

Wasn't Ycombinator itself enough of a proof?