Josh David Miller

Josh David Miller

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5.0
(64 reviews)
US$30.00
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ABOUT ME
passionate about dev best practices; innovation coach; startup advisor
passionate about dev best practices; innovation coach; startup advisor

In addition to freelancing to help engineers with best practices, I am the CEO of Mindbox Studios, where I facilitates the process of innovation with early-stage startups and with larger organizations in transition. My team and I team help get new ventures to market, innovate on business models, and establish a culture that supports intrapreneurship. I spend my free time as a startup ecosystem builder, connecting founders and funders in the Sacramento area; I am an unabashed nerd who considers science and philosophy textbooks “brain candy”; and I can usually be found wearing unusually colourful shoes.

English
Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-08:00)
Joined January 2016
EXPERTISE
1 year experience
I am happy to provide free advice and consultations to organisations looking to innovate/adapt in the face of COVID-19 pandemic, as well ...
I am happy to provide free advice and consultations to organisations looking to innovate/adapt in the face of COVID-19 pandemic, as well as provide reduced rates for ongoing work, if needed. Message me and let's chat!
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15 years experience
I routinely work with organisations of all sizes to help innovate on their business model, pivot, engage in digital transformation, and e...
I routinely work with organisations of all sizes to help innovate on their business model, pivot, engage in digital transformation, and establish a culture of innovation. If you want to understand how to survive and thrive in a changing landscape (market or regulatory changes, new competitors, new technologies, global pandemic, etc) then let's talk!
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10 years experience | 1 endorsement
As a lifelong proponent of hypothesis testing and rapid iteration, the lean startup model speaks very strongly to me. I have placed in St...
As a lifelong proponent of hypothesis testing and rapid iteration, the lean startup model speaks very strongly to me. I have placed in Startup Weekend competitions, been a finalist in the Global Startup Battle, and mentored many early-stage startups on creating fantastic products. I can help outline the process to go from idea to paying customers to growth and scaling, while reducing risk and expense.
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10 years experience | 18 endorsements
JavaScript is now ubiquitous and talented developers are in high demand. Yet despite the inherent power of the language and its vibrant a...
JavaScript is now ubiquitous and talented developers are in high demand. Yet despite the inherent power of the language and its vibrant and thriving culture of tools, JavaScript can be hard to "get right". Grokking a declarative, functional language and understanding how to structure both code and processes in that paradigm to scale can be challenging. I have many years of experience mentoring development teams in JavaScript best practices, both within and without popular frameworks like AngularJS and React and I'd love to help you set up your team and project for success.
10 years experience | 12 endorsements
Though I have experience with several backend languages, I always find myself returning to JavaScript on Node. With a dynamic, declarativ...
Though I have experience with several backend languages, I always find myself returning to JavaScript on Node. With a dynamic, declarative language, many frameworks and tools, and a vibrant ecosystem with a strong package manager, it may just be the perfect all-purpose server platform. I am intimately familiar with the platform and its quirks and thoroughly enjoy writing tools for its ecosystem.
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5 years experience | 17 endorsements
React is one of my favourite view layers for modern web apps. Built in are all the components needed to have strong separation of concern...
React is one of my favourite view layers for modern web apps. Built in are all the components needed to have strong separation of concerns and clear data flow. With a model like Flux or a framework like Redux and a simple router, we suddenly have a powerful platform on which to create highly scalable yet easy-to-digest web applications. I'd love to help you get set up right with React.
16 years experience | 7 endorsements
The web is a platform and no app that sits on it can get very far without a strong knowledge of its markup and style. I've been working o...
The web is a platform and no app that sits on it can get very far without a strong knowledge of its markup and style. I've been working on consumer-facing websites and apps for more than a decade and can help with structure and style questions as well as with UX review.
HTML/CSS
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REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(64 reviews)
Jordan
Jordan
April 2020
Great! Walked through everything and figured out some tricky stuff.
Jim Maybee
Jim Maybee
April 2020
Josh provided excellent insights to guide my business, covering various issues of market segmentation and value proposition development. I look forward to further sessions.
Matthew J Roybal
Matthew J Roybal
January 2019
Another very helpful session! Thank you Josh for all the help. Highly recommended for anyone looking direction and assistance with a startup or web app using React!
Matthew J Roybal
Matthew J Roybal
November 2018
I keep calling and Josh keeps helping me learn more and more. Thank you, I would not have gotten this far without your guidance. Outstanding job!
Matthew J Roybal
Matthew J Roybal
October 2018
Josh continues to help tremendously every session! I would be lost without his help. Highly recommended.
Matthew J Roybal
Matthew J Roybal
April 2018
I've used Josh for several sessions now. He has been very helpful every time and I am going to continue to use his expertise.
Matthew Weber
Matthew Weber
June 2017
Great help, thanks!
Ed Henderson
Ed Henderson
May 2017
Thanks again Josh. It really helps to talk things over with someone that knows their way around the tools like you do.
Jake Tunney
Jake Tunney
September 2016
Great listener
James Shul
James Shul
August 2016
Very friendly and knowledgable!
SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
angular-placeholders
A set of placeholder directives & services for use during development of AngularJS apps.
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ng-curtain
AngularJS directives that create multiple fixed panels that unroll with an amusing effect. Port of the now defunct victa/curtain.js.
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Stack Overflow
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EMPLOYMENTS
CEO
Mindbox Studios
2017-10-01-Present
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Product and Lean Startup Consultant
N/A
2011-08-01-2017-10-01
Provide product management and marketing strategy services, focusing on passionate B2C and B2B software-as-a-service startups. - Strategy...
Provide product management and marketing strategy services, focusing on passionate B2C and B2B software-as-a-service startups. - Strategy: Decrease risk by accurately identifying the minimum viable product that reflects the core value proposition. Provide well-thought-out product ideas and features that maximize revenue. Build coalitions around roadmaps to ensure consensus and instill passion. Enrich product discussions by treating user experience as a first-class citizen - never as an afterthought to a feature. - Product Development: Coordinate and motivate diverse groups of designers, engineers, and stakeholders to generate mockups and rapidly iterate on prototypes. Draft unified specs actionable to marketing, sales, and engineering teams. Manage and mentor remote engineering teams to build and ship memorable experiences. - Developer Training: Lead classes to train developers in the technologies that build great SaaS products. Mentor junior and intermediate developers in the principles and best practices that lead to comprehensible, scalable code. - Marketing: Develop go-to-market strategies and generate metrics that encourage continuous assessment. Galvanize customer engagement through tightly-connected marketing initiatives that hit multiple channels. - Closing the Loop: Cultivate environments for rapid measurement and iteration. Incorporate multivariate/split testing, behavioural analytics, and user feedback to stimulate generation of testable hypotheses. Performance Highlights - Propelled sales 15% year-on-year through close management of multi-channel marketing initiatives. - Managed the definition and development of a competition management app with a two-sided market. - Increased sales and drove process improvements by overseeing creation of a B2C online sales platform. - Spearheaded a brand relaunch, leading to an order-of-magnitude increase in media reach and customer engagement.
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Product Manager
Emergenesis
2009-04-01-2012-10-01
Co-founded a social enterprise startup to network scientific research data through open web technologies. Orchestrated design and definit...
Co-founded a social enterprise startup to network scientific research data through open web technologies. Orchestrated design and definition of a two-sided network for research professionals and students. Coordinated development of a proof-of-concept web app.
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