I know this sounds trite, but you typically want to incorporate with either 10 million or 100 million shares (10 million being much easier to deal with) initially. Imagine giving someone .25% equity - this means you will give them 25 shares, which is a bad idea for multiple reasons, from rounding making a big difference in vesting (you vest .52 shares every month) to it not sounding impressive. You're not BRK.A.

Just make sure to pay via Assumed Par Value Capital Method.