I am offered a position in a medical technology startup in exchange for 5% of equity. Is this a fair amount?<p>Are there any points of reference on how to make this evaluation?
Will you add more than 5% of value to the company?
What do other execs have?
Is it late stage, or early stage?<p>5% seems somewhere between about right and a little low, depending on the factors above ( plus others).<p>Also, step back and think about the big picture. A typical startup will have a CEO, VP of Engineering, VP of Marketing, VP of Sales, CFO, VP of Biz Dev ( maybe not all of these in all cases). If they each got 5%, that's 30% right there, which is quite frankly probably high, depending on the funding.
Here is Aaron Patzers (founder of Mint.com) take on things.<p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/08/startups-101-the-complete-mint-presentation/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/08/startups-101-the-complete-m...</a>