Traction Lab Podcast
oleh JDM and Cameron Law
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The Traction Lab Podcast is a light-hearted, science-based weekly to help first-time founders go from fuzzy idea to real traction with honest insights, tactical experiments, tons of snark, and zero startup BS.
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- Your VC is going to fire you (with Kit Ryan) · 56 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern. Four friends start a company, split the equity 25/25/25/25 because talking about it felt awkward, and skip founder vesting because who brings…
- Shmillip joins the shmow (finally) · 1 jam 8 mntHey friends 👋 It’s a story old as time. You walk on stage to pitch your startup, and the speakers start blasting “Loser” by Beck. (Literally.) Then investors tell you your market…
- Bring on the AI co-founders! · 1 jam 0 mntHey friends 👋 You know the founder who swears he’s going to buy a boring, profitable business instead of building one from scratch? Turns out that’s way harder than the internet…
- Traction Lab Live: Is that traction, or are they just being nice? · 48 mntHey friends 👋 You have a handful of paying customers. People keep telling you the idea is great. And somewhere in the back of your head there’s a voice asking whether any of it…
- #107. Sales playbook, or sales guessbook? · 47 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern: sales feels gross, so the second you can afford it, you hire someone who’s “done this before” to build the process and go sell your s**t for…
- Bruh you be tweakin’ · 40 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern. Founder gets a no, goes home, and rewrites the business model slide. Tweak the header, reorder some bullets. Progress! Comes back a month…
- Traction Lab Live: That feature request is probably a polite no · 1 jam 7 mntHey friends 👋 You’ve heard it before: “We love it, we just need the Salesforce integration first.” Or the dental office manager who “has to check with the doctor.” Founders treat…
- #105: You can’t win a game you can’t see · 42 mnt · Episode 105Hey friends 👋 You know the pitch deck slide. “Use of funds: 30% marketing.” Cool, cool. Except you can’t describe your customer in one sentence, and you’ve never gotten a…
- Traction Lab Live: a company, or just a popular repo? · 35 mntHey friends 👋 JDM ditched us for Bodega Bay this week (family time, apparently more urgent than your traction problems), so Cameron ran the live AMA solo — and the questions did…
- #104. Even your mom is lying to you · 1 jam 20 mnt · Episode 104Hey friends 👋 You know the pattern: you pitch your idea to somebody who loves you, and they tell you it’s amazing. You pitch it to a stranger who’s polite, and they tell you it’s…
- Traction Lab Live: Beware of founder freeloader fit · 53 mnt · Episode 104Hey friends 👋 We don’t know who needs to hear this, but “it’s nice” is not a business model. This week’s live office hours tackled the question every founder running an unpaid…
- #103. Moving forward, or just on a treadmill? · 57 mnt · Episode 103You know the founder who sends the investor update packed with wins? Pitch competitions won, decks redesigned, partnerships signed, impressions climbing. Tons of activity, real…
- Just two dudes and a pipeline · 48 mntHey friends 🤘 You know the move: a founder drops a big pipeline number into the deck, sprinkles in some recognizable logos, weights everything at 30%, 40%, 80%, and hopes…
- Lukewarm interest is still a no · 33 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern: referrals feel great, early users say nice things, and everyone nods along when you describe the problem. Then you ask for money, and suddenly…
- Ep #100: Build it, and they will come · 42 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern: founder builds the product, polishes the product, adds “one more” feature, then waits for the market to notice. Step one: build it. Step two…
- Do you suffer from low T? · 34 mntHey friends 🤘 You know the pattern: founders hear encouraging words, dodge the uncomfortable price conversation, and call it traction because everyone is smiling. Cute. Also…
- People buy products... right? · 37 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern: founder builds the thing, founder lists the features, founder waits for customers to notice how obviously great it is. Very compelling! But…
- To get started, you need to raise money! · 26 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern: founder has an idea, founder needs a product, product needs money, so the next three months disappear into pitch deck purgatory. Very…
- Cam and JDM's public failure · 1 jam 2 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern: you launch a thing, people say they are interested, and when it is time to show up… no one does. Cool, data, I guess? This week, Cameron and…
- A great idea is the hardest part · 28 mntHey friends 👋 You know the pattern: founder has a big idea, founder protects the idea, founder keeps polishing the idea until it becomes too precious to test. It feels…
