"Worth my while" couldn't be reasonably computed until I knew more about your company, like:
-Anticipated viability of the company and revenue stream predictions
-Effort (in hours) that I would need to contribute to effect a positive outcome
-Financing model of the organization
-Compensation of other employees in a similar position to effect the outcome of the company
These things factor into the "risk", which affects the appropriate "reward". If I could make a major impact on your company by only needing to invest 8 hours per week, it wouldn't be a tough choice to make the decision to attempt to help out. If however it would take 20+ hours per week, then other things/tasks get requeued to make room to help with your startup, that changes what I would need/want to get out of it to make it worth my while...
If I may be so bold, it's not a chat room here. If you agree with some post and don't have anything more substantial to say, consider just upmodding it.
And this thread is bringing out a behavior on news.yc that I really don't like -- people downmodding recent comments of the OP because they're mad they can't downmod the post.
Do you think the fault lies in the practitioners, the system, or both? (This is not a rhetoric question.)
And how do you know those downvotes have all to do with the submission and nothing with the comments themselves? Personally I downmodded for lack of relevance.
-Anticipated viability of the company and revenue stream predictions
-Effort (in hours) that I would need to contribute to effect a positive outcome
-Financing model of the organization
-Compensation of other employees in a similar position to effect the outcome of the company
These things factor into the "risk", which affects the appropriate "reward". If I could make a major impact on your company by only needing to invest 8 hours per week, it wouldn't be a tough choice to make the decision to attempt to help out. If however it would take 20+ hours per week, then other things/tasks get requeued to make room to help with your startup, that changes what I would need/want to get out of it to make it worth my while...