Willem Van Lancker
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 26, 2025 by Willem Van Lancker · across every show →
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Apr 26, 2025 negative
Van Lancker: Upfront VC stipends diminish founder urgency and hurt decision-making
“The reason to not attach capital to it is one, both for that point of commitment and restriction, but the other is I think it makes you make decisions differently. I think that you either, if you have that stipend and you're hanging out in the offices and you'…”
Apr 26, 2025 negative
Van Lancker: Founders cannot outsource conviction to investors with misaligned portfolio incentives
“That investor or that angel investor is going to place who knows how many bets, and you're gonna place one during this period of time. You are an investor of your time, and that is one thing that you can do during this period, and you have to take that really …”
Apr 26, 2025 negative
Van Lancker: Customer polling is obsolete for breakthrough startups facing funded competitors
“In the environment today where software has eaten the world, and you should assume that if you're onto something interesting, there are two or three other competent, well-funded, You know, good people going after it as well. It has to be, you know, from that k…”
Apr 26, 2025 positive
Van Lancker: Terrain Free Agency offers founders $350k+ in non-dilutive resources
“Every person that participates in free agency gets access to over 350 grand in compute resources and service resources, that sort of thing. So there is some capital to deploy, you know, via technology. That is not, you know, dilutive or anything in that regard…”