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by dooraven 1055 days ago
Advisors asking for equity and compensation is standard. Give them one or the other but not both.

Use the FAST agreement to guide you https://fi.co/fast. Do not deviate from this agreement, no matter how good the advisors will be.

They fundamentally are not building your business.

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Mh I don't think it's quite as standard. YC advises against that, too.

If you absolutely have to then use standard compensation. Having several advisors with small equity is a red flag for many investors.

Yeah you generally only have 2 or 3. Wouldn’t recommend having more than that
Thanks for the template! Looks full-proof.

How much equity would be healthy to give?

See the chart above: .25 for any advisor upto 1.00 if true expert in the idea stage
Gotcha!

Thank you :)