Josh Miller
Co-Founder at Traction Lab
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJosh Miller is a founder and startup scientist with 14 years of experience turning vague strategy into repeatable revenue for pre-seed and seed-stage companies. As Co-Founder of Traction Lab and operator of programs like Traction Lab Venture School and TractionThinking, he applies a rigorous, experiment-first methodology—“traction science”—to help founders build less and learn faster. He pairs hands-on product and go-to-market coaching with content, cohort programs, and weekly office hours, and mentors at Growth Factory, Techstars partners, and university innovation centers. A former CEO who sold an innovation consultancy and an active front-end contributor on projects like ngbp, he blends practical UI engineering chops with business-model dismantling and reassembly. Based in Sacramento, he’s known for cutting through clarity problems few founders recognize and for a slightly spicy, brutally honest mentoring style. Beyond advising, he obsessively focuses on real customers and measurable signals rather than pitch polish or fundability.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
French, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
html10
css10
javascript10
bootstra10
lessc10
front-end-development10
bootstrap10
angularjs10
ui-design9
git7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ngbp/ngbp
Feb 2013 - May 2014
A sophisticated build management system for web apps (formerly ng-boilerplate). Created by @joshdmiller
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 55 comments, 15 issues in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the front-end development of the ngbp project, focusing on UI enhancements and feature additions. They implemented dynamic title support and refactored menu functionality to reflect the current route, along with various styling improvements to the navigation bar and home page. The user also integrated Bootstrap 3, UI Bootstrap, and Font Awesome, improving the overall visual appearance and user experience of the application.
management-systembuild-managementboilerplateweb-apps
ngbp/spell-webapp
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
web-applicationspellangularapplication-development
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