{"id":12752,"date":"2026-09-07T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/how-do-you-make-investors-take-your-startup-seriously\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T20:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:46:16","slug":"how-do-you-make-investors-take-your-startup-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/how-do-you-make-investors-take-your-startup-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Make Investors Take Your Startup Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early-stage startups face something called the \u201cliability of newness\u201d so they have to signal credibility to investors.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Eike Gerhardt breaks <!--more--> down how Nephrogen founder Demetri Maxim used his Startup Battlefield pitch to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full episode of Build Mode for more startup pitching advice. <a href=\"http:\/\/spr.ly\/6052BGBkmk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/spr.ly\/6052BGBkmk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early-stage startups face something called the \u201cliability of newness\u201d so they have to signal credibility to investors. Dr. Eike Gerhardt breaks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}