hey friends 👋

I’m JDM (aka Josh David Miller) and I’m a traction scientist — I partner with pre-seed and seed-stage startups to turn assumptions into data, and data into product-market fit, using science. I run design sprints at The Right Box , I’m co-founder of the Traction Lab incubator, and I’m a content creator.

Check out my recent content below, or read more about me .

Recent Content

I write two weekly newsletters, co-host a podcast, and create content on LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and other places — all based around helping first-time founders launch sooner and scale faster with traction science.

These are four of my most recent pieces:

• To get started, you need to raise money!

  Zero to Traction Podcast · 17 hours ago

  If your deck is mostly assumptions, raising money will not make the business real. Start with customer evidence, right-size the swing, and make capital follow conviction.

• High Conviction Founder Series: They prioritize shortening time-to-customer

  Traction Thinking · 4 days ago

  The market can't answer a question you haven't asked yet.

• Cam and JDM's public failure

  Zero to Traction Podcast · 9 days ago

  The live event that wasn't: you can get 15 RSVPs and still have one person in the room. This one is about what founders should do when the market says, politely, "nope."

• High Conviction Founder Series: They think like scientists, act like founders

  Traction Thinking · 11 days ago

  Build hypotheses, run experiments, iterate with intent. The scientific method is the shortest path to product-market fit.