Will you add more than 5% of value to the company?
What do other execs have?
Is it late stage, or early stage?
5% seems somewhere between about right and a little low, depending on the factors above ( plus others).
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.
5% seems somewhere between about right and a little low, depending on the factors above ( plus others).
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.