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I hate to pile on, but I listened to the podcast OP linked above. It doesn't make the situation sound any better. It is worse, actually. OP is tone deaf going on this podcast talking about the toxic, racist, misogynistic culture with seemingly no awareness of his contribution to it.
When I ran a client facing company I never worked for equity. Working for equity is the same as working for free. It will take valuable time away from your money making projects and your personal "free time" projects.
Money is money. Equity is not.
Edit: I assume you're in business or moonlighting for profit.
SEEKING WORK -- Boston, MA or remote
Server-side and mobile device developer. Developing mobile applications for iOS, Android and BlackBerry. Server-side communication done with JavaEE, Ruby on Rails or CakePHP.
Successful projects that I have launched myself include the CityReporter applications used by over 20 cities in the United States.
http://plus1lab.com/cityreporter-iphone
My email address is in my profile.
CityReporter - http://plus1lab.com/about-cityreporter
It's a service for state and local governments to improve their customer service relationship with their citizens. It implements the Open311 GeoReport v2 API, meaning the data is open and Free.
We could really use a nice theme for the web administration interface! I have no idea if that fits within your 5 allotted hours though.