Startup employee equity should reward the risk you take in joining the company. Here's some ways to understand equity value so you can decide if your equity meets this standard.
Attorney Mary Russell counsels individual employees and founders to negotiate, maximize and monetize their stock options and other startup stock. You are invited to contact Stock Option Counsel for help in negotiating and evaluating your job offers and post-acquisition employment agreements, making stock option exercise and tax decisions and identifying your rights and opportunities to sell startup stock.
For more information on joining an early stage startup before there is a VC valuation, see Joining An Early Stage Startup? Negotiate Your Salary and Equity with Stock Option Counsel Tips.