Your goals and the goals of your boss are not aligned. You need an income, you need to gain experience from people that already have that experience and you need stability. To become CTO of an unfunded start-up means that you will be the most experienced person, you will not be making any money and in the slightly longer run the company will probably fail.<p>&#x27;Until we get funded&#x27; translates into &#x27;unfunded&#x27;, and &#x27;could be in May 2016 or even before that&#x27; translates into &#x27;possibly never&#x27;.<p>If you don&#x27;t have money in the bank and if you can&#x27;t sit this out for a year or more and walk away without any scratches then I would strongly advise against taking this position, but be sure to thank them for the compliment. Join a start-up that is already funded instead, maybe not as the CTO but at least in a position where you can pick up the skills that you need.<p>Also, if you do take the position consider the very real possibility that you&#x27;ll be ditched as soon as they can afford someone more experienced than an intern.