Disengaged customers, creative destruction, and the competition we ignore
How you can increase retention by avoiding the survivorship bias; becoming a better founder by leveraging AI; and much, much more.
I help startups find traction — or fail fast trying.
I’m JDM, aka Josh David Miller, an entrepreneur, speaker, startup advisor, and wearer of colourful shoes, based in Sacramento, CA. I’m the founder of The Right Box, where we use design thinking to help venture-backed startups find product-market fit.
They call me the Shredder of Business Models.
Validated learning, how not to waste your life, and what we can learn from Ikea
Three big ideas on how to find your most productive self as a startup founder; how not to let your best life get in the way of your only life; and how the Ikea effect kills creativity.
The one where I answer your questions
We've got a great set of reader questions: traction metrics, investor theses, buying behaviour, category creation, and more!
Failure is data, except when it’s not
Aphorism aside — by default, failure isn’t data. If you want to learn from failure, you have to do these three things.
Office Hours — Thursdays @ 10am Pacific
Ask me anything! Every week, I open my virtual doors to your startup questions live on YouTube! Read more →
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