{"id":73,"date":"2026-02-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/nordic-founders-podcast-erik\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:00:00","slug":"nordic-founders-podcast-erik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/nordic-founders-podcast-erik\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik on the Nordic Founders podcast: the 90-second screening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erik joined Karl \u00d6sterberg on the Nordic Founders podcast last week to talk about what VCs actually look at in the first ninety seconds of a pitch deck. It was a good conversation \u2014 Karl pushed on the things founders usually get wrong and didn&#8217;t let the answers stay at the generic level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few of the topics we got into:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><p>Why warm intros still dominate at Nordic seed, and what &#8220;warm&#8221; actually means in practice<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n<li><p>The gap between what founders think investors look at and what they actually look at<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n<li><p>Why the cover slide and the ask slide carry more weight than anything in between<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n<li><p>How our screening framework came out of watching hundreds of screenings go wrong<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n<li><p>The quiet rise of solo GPs in Nordic seed rounds, and what that means for founders building their target list<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full episode is on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and the usual places. It&#8217;s about 45 minutes. If you only have ten, skip to minute 22 \u2014 that&#8217;s where the conversation about model red flags starts, and it&#8217;s the most useful stretch for founders currently putting a raise together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If any of it resonates with something you&#8217;re working through, feel free to reach out. A first conversation is always free and usually useful even if we don&#8217;t end up working together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik joined Karl \u00d6sterberg on the Nordic Founders podcast last week to talk about what VCs actually look at in the first ninety seconds of a pitch deck. It was a good conversation \u2014 Karl pushed on the things founders usually get wrong and didn&#8217;t let the answers stay at the generic level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/tellvik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}