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:
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🎧 When fundraising, is bigger better?
Zero to Traction Podcast ·Listen now | Should you raise $500K or $2M? We break down three real scenarios where founders face this exact choice—and why bigger isn't always better.
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🔀 pitching to the wrong investors
Traction Thinking ·This week in The Pivot: founders using delegation to avoid the things they fear, like hiring a sales rep before you know what sells.
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Is it a deal or a death trap?
Zero to Traction Podcast ·Listen now | That Fortune 500 pilot looks tempting, but is it worth pausing your working sales motion? We break down when enterprise deals are worth chasing—and when they’re just shiny distractions.
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🧠 Your startup is a house of cards
Traction Thinking ·You built for six months, launched, and… nobody cared. You assumed the customer, the problem, the channel, the messaging, the pricing, and the solution. It was a house of cards—and it collapsed.