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by brudgers 5727 days ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, equity gets diluted. A great amount at the start may be trivial after several funding rounds. You might run the numbers for high, low, and middle scenarios.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/10/employee-equity-dilution.htm...

Good Luck.

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There's a webapp for that (forecasting dilution) http://www.ownyourventure.com/
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen that post yet. Dilution is my main concern, so I'm curious how it ended up effecting others that made it through. The non-monetary gains would be excellent without question!
From observation, FU money is unlikely. There is probably an inverse correlation between the likelihood of FU money and the likelihood of multiple funding rounds.
Watch the Facebook movie "The Social Network" for an example of this.