This year (2019), I've been living in Philippines for the majority of the time since May!  Before this, I've visited two other times, including a 2 month and 3 month stint.  Many of my friends ask, "Matt, were you ever scared?"  "Did you ever feel like you weren't safe?  

My answer, YES!  At times I thought I was going to have to kill someone while my phone was dying and I had no connection and I couldn't get home quickly!

It's been over 4 years since I sold most of the equity I owned in my first real estate company and launched Handshaking.  I knew I wanted to have an online company, and it took the first 2 years to actually get profitable, and now for the last 2 years I've been going to the 'school of hard knocks' learning how to manage a remote team and grow the profit of a now proven business model.  

​I read an article recently about how popular the 'gig economy' is becoming in Colorado, but realized it didn't mention 3 big problems with the notion 'gig economy.'  Many gig workers are not focused on created long-term wealth, and the 'gig economy may take great advantage of those workers.

It's been over a year now that Handshakin turned from an online marketing services company to a web property investment company.  ... What the heck does that mean?

It means we build our own websites on our own domain names.  Instead of building websites for clients.  Here's a concrete lead generation website.  We built a referral website "Fort Collins Concrete Contractors" and after waiting and blogging for 6 months...

Hello from Dubai - I just arrived here after 3 months in Philippines (spent 5 months in Philippines in 2018 total), and here are my top choices for you to check out if you are looking for good food, a good time, and good networking.  I wrote this on the flight with Cebu Pacific, which is a great budget Philippines airlines, too, if you haven't booked your flight yet ;)
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What city is the entrepreneurship capital of the United States? Where does one find the densest enclave of concentrated, up-and-coming startup culture? Silicon Valley? Palo Alto?
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Nope. It's Boulder, which boasts twice as many startups per capita versus any other American city; this pole position has been a long time in the making: "Since 1960, it has quietly nurtured nascent industries, including natural foods, computer storage, biotech, and now Internet companies." While Boulder is famed for its emphasis on work/life balance, make no mistake; its citizens take the 'work' part of that equation seriously.