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hey friends 👋

I’m JDM — startup advisor, venture scientist, and founder of Traction Lab. I help early-stage founders go from fuzzy idea to fundable traction using real experiments, not wishful thinking.

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Work Together

I work with founders, funds, and ecosystems through custom sprints, hands-on advisory, and our venture accelerator. Let’s talk about what’s stuck — and run the right experiments to get it moving.

Office Hours

Join one of my weekly AMAs where I answer real founder questions live on air.

Traction Thinking

A weekly deep dive newsletter into the messy, uncomfortable work of building startups that scale.

Founding with AI

A newsletter for founders using AI as their co-founder. We give you the exact prompts, workflows, and mental models to launch sooner and scale faster.

Zero to Traction

A fun, lighthearted podcast for founders navigating the messy middle between idea and Series A.