> everyone worked for more than half a year without salary WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!? Sorry, that's not fair... Why would you do that without a FIRM equity deal?

> everyone worked for more than half a year without salary WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!? Sorry, that's not fair... Why would you do that without a FIRM equity deal? Why would you get yourself into a situation that allows somebody to yank your share away having already worked? If you happily work for somebody without anything in return, I'm afraid to say you deserve everything you get when they turn around at the eleventh hour and take the cheap way out. There may be laws attached to this (IANAL) but really, you've earned a very valuable lesson here. Don't work unless you're contractually guaranteed something in return.