Super helpful salary range for startup founders – $50-75K. If you’re raising a seed stage, most of the money should go to the company. If you can save up enough beforehand, then maybe you can pay yourself less. The less you can pay yourself, the more runway you’ll have to figure out your product and how to make money.
Just don’t go in too deep. That’s the mistake I made with my first startup. Left me without a place to live and lots of credit card debt. In hindsight, I should have thrown in the towel sooner because recovering from that has definitely slowed my progress towards starting another company (hopefully one that will be successful).