Ask.
Ask for an annual raise if you don’t get.
Ask for more stock options after 24 months or so if you don’t get more.
Be cool. Don’t be a jerk.
But in start-ups, maybe even more so than Big Companies — the quiet non-complainers sometimes don’t get the extra shares, the raise.
Don’t ask every day. Ask at the right time.
Done right, it can only help.