13: Motivating an Animal (with Matt Stauffer)

Matt enumerates the differences between venture-backed and bootstrapped businesses. We discuss the difference between “useful” and “good” traits. Matt has some advice on how to talk about your strengths without sounding like a jerk, and then John meets a Titan of Industry.

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Special Guest: Matt Stauffer.

Links:

- [Matt Stauffer (@stauffermatt) | Twitter](https://twitter.com/stauffermatt "Matt Stauffer (@stauffermatt) | Twitter")

- [Tighten Co. | Product Development for Web + Mobile | Laravel + Vue.js](https://tighten.co/ "Tighten Co. | Product Development for Web + Mobile | Laravel + Vue.js")

- [Laravel: Up & Running - An O'Reilly book by Matt Stauffer](https://laravelupandrunning.com/ "Laravel: Up & Running - An O'Reilly book by Matt Stauffer")

- [Karani - for Fundraisers](https://karani.co/ "Karani - for Fundraisers")

- [thoughtbot](https://thoughtbot.com/ "thoughtbot")

- [Less Accounting](https://lessaccounting.com/ "Less Accounting")

- [Basecamp](https://basecamp.com/ "Basecamp")

- [Bootstrap (front-end framework) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_(front-end_framework) "Bootstrap (front-end framework) - Wikipedia")

- [CEO Genome – Data driven insights into what makes successful CEOs](http://ceogenome.com/ "CEO Genome – Data driven insights into what makes successful CEOs")

- [Fits and Starts: 1: Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires (Visionary Bro Culture)](http://fitsandstarts.fm/temporarily-embarassed-millionaires "Fits and Starts: 1: Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires (Visionary Bro Culture)")

- [Fits and Starts: 3: Five Jobs and a Bunch of Dogwhistles (Pizza Parlor Reference)](http://fitsandstarts.fm/five-jobs-and-a-bunch-of-dogwhistles "Fits and Starts: 3: Five Jobs and a Bunch of Dogwhistles (Pizza Parlor Reference)")

- [How I Built This - Airbnb: Joe Gebbia - NPR One](http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=497820565:497945288 "How I Built This - Airbnb: Joe Gebbia - NPR One")

- [Lifestyle business - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business "Lifestyle business - Wikipedia")

- [I'm a real boy! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEB45OAnixU "I'm a real boy! - YouTube")

- [Dwight Schrute - Assistant to the Regional Manager - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tQG15iM1UI "Dwight Schrute - Assistant to the Regional Manager - YouTube")

- [see the forest for the trees - Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/see_the_forest_for_the_trees "see the forest for the trees - Wiktionary")

- [David Allen's Getting Things Done® Methodology](http://gettingthingsdone.com/ "David Allen's Getting Things Done® Methodology")

- [Agile software development - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development "Agile software development - Wikipedia")

- [How to Get Out of Debt With the Debt Snowball Plan | DaveRamsey.com](https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/get-out-of-debt-with-the-debt-snowball-plan "How to Get Out of Debt With the Debt Snowball Plan | DaveRamsey.com")

- [Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots](http://giantrobots.fm/ "Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots")

- [The Inner Game of Tennis](http://www.philosophyforlife.org/innergame/ "The Inner Game of Tennis")

- [Fits and Starts: 4: Internet Civics](http://fitsandstarts.fm/internet-civics "Fits and Starts: 4: Internet Civics")

- [The Five-Minute Geek Show](http://www.fiveminutegeekshow.com/ "The Five-Minute Geek Show")

- [How to Win Friends and Influence People - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People "How to Win Friends and Influence People - Wikipedia")

- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/ "Stack Overflow")

- [InterVarsity Christian Fellowship](https://intervarsity.org/ "InterVarsity Christian Fellowship")

- [Jeff Goldblum Is Back in New Ads for Apartments.com](http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/jeff-goldblum-back-new-ads-apartmentscom-time-directed-bob-odenkirk-170522/ "Jeff Goldblum Is Back in New Ads for Apartments.com")

- [Bootstrap Management - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship#Bootstrapping "Bootstrap Management - Wikipedia")