A friend of mine has been through something like that, not happily; here's another employee of the same startup telling the story: http://www.sixdemonbag.org/yo

A friend of mine has been through something like that, not happily; here's another employee of the same startup telling the story: http://www.sixdemonbag.org/yomu.html http://www.sixdemonbag.org/yomu.html (Summary: founder trying to keep stringing everyone along gets convicted of securities fraud.)