Hi HN, I'm in a sticky situation now and thought I'd reach out and see what you would do.<p>I did about 3 months of work (and managed several contractor jobs) as a technical cofounder for this guy and the new direction for his existing company. Our original verbal agreement was very explicit that I would be an equity partner. Even though I pushed several times for formalizing our agreement, he never had time for it and we never had a contract (I should have stopped work after this red flag). Now, he has decided to have someone else handle the development aspect, which I'm OK with and in agreement because over the course of the 3 months that I worked for him, he departed from the strategy and vision that inspired me to join. While I am OK with not continuing the work for him, there are two "loose ends": first, he is avoiding reimbursing me for the contractor work that I paid for (and normally he has been reimbursing me); second, I feel that my own 3 months of work ought to receive some compensation - and it probably makes more sense for that to be in the form of cash rather than equity. So now I am out over $5,000 of reimbursement, and also have received absolutely nothing for my 3 months of time.<p>Any advice? What would you do? I already know there are lots of things I should have done to prevent getting in this situation in the first place.<p>By the way, word of advice for my fellow HN... the guy was super nice, friendly, and easy-going, which made it easy to not recognize the red flags (no contract, delaying contract, slow reimbursement). Don't get into my situation.