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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#103. Moving forward, or just on a treadmill?
Zero to Traction Podcast ·A format-breaker — no science lecture or scenarios, just JDM and Cam riffing on a half-baked "traction treadmill" metaphor: founders who burn energy on vanity metrics while making no real progress.
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Just two dudes and a pipeline
Zero to Traction Podcast ·Your pipeline slide can make you look sophisticated until an investor asks what counts, what closes, and what quietly dies. The POST framework helps you separate predicting from pretending.
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Lukewarm interest is still a no
Zero to Traction Podcast ·If customers like the idea but dodge the check, you don't have traction yet. In this live Q&A, we talk testing colder evidence, charging sooner, and refusing to outsource the hard learning.
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Ep #100: Build it, and they will come
Zero to Traction Podcast ·Startup Pseudoscience Series. You can build a beautiful product and still have no path to customers. Product-led growth works only when distribution is designed, tested, and earned from the start.