<prompt> Human: edit: This is a part-time project I am working on in spare time when I am not working to pay my expenses. Have been working the past 5 months in a promising technology startup with the potential for incredible expansion. We are a team of 4 and at this stage none of us have been paid -- we are in the process of writing grants, looking for sponsors, all while developing the platform.Foundermanager says we should be expecting to get a pay check around May or December of this year, depending on grants memberships made by those times. We have to sign a contract by the end of the month and they are asking if I am more interested in: 1. salary only partial for the moment or2. equity andor3. commission my main role is to get partnersmembersetc.which would decrease my equity salaryIf I got a salary sooner than the others it would be coming from the founders savings were all relatively broke so I feel weird about that. l understand that eventually once we are successful that we will get a salary.. should I hold off immediate compensation for now and request a higher equity? Should I get a commissions cap, or not and ask for a bigger salary equity depending on the players I sign? I have to propose my feespercentage and sign a document with our accelerator by the end of the month and I dont know what the best deal would be. Any thoughts ?  <response>: I would try to negotiate the last 5 months as equity and then get the hell out of there once you have the documents proving your ownership of said equity. You are not getting paid. 