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It's not your job to come up with the compromise. Tell them exactly what you need and let them counter. If they want you to stay around in some capacity bad enough you may get everything you ask for or at least a really good counter offer for you to consider.

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Yeah, a logical middle ground is to stay freelance until they start actually getting sales instead of handing out "betas" (freebies).

good point. I should try not to see it with their eyes and stop thinking for both sides. I tend to think i am too expensive for such a small company and stuff like that. But that kind of thinking makes it hard for me to decide what I want.

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