If you do offer equity then that's a slightly different thing. That can be considered payment by those who are willing to take the risk. However, a lot of "star

If you do offer equity then that's a slightly different thing. That can be considered payment by those who are willing to take the risk. However, a lot of "startups" in EU do not offer such thing. They do standard employment with unpaid on-call. And those can f right off.