Posted on 03/16/2013 9:40:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
A company named Blueseed is a year away from offering entrepreneurs an inexpensive place, near Silicon Valley, in which to develop their products.
"Blueseed will station a ship 12 nautical miles from the coast of San Francisco, in international waters. The location will allow startup entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to start or grow their company near Silicon Valley, without the need for a U.S. work visa. The ship will be converted into a coworking and co-living space, and will have high-speed Internet access and daily transportation to the mainland via ferry boat. So far, over 1000 entrepreneurs from 60+ countries expressed interest in living on the ship."
Here is a sampling of images from their page of Concept Vessels.
Who's Going to Blueseed?
Blueseed will be welcoming 1171 entrepreneurs from 368 startups in 66 countries.
Motivation Factor
Motivation for Coming to Blueseed | Not important | Somewhat important | Important | Very important | Critical |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
An alternative to having to get US work visas for myself or other company founders | 25.80% | 14.60% | 16.80% | 19.20% | 23.60% |
An alternative to having to get US work visas for my employees | 27.70% | 20.30% | 21.20% | 18.10% | 12.60% |
Streamlined legal and regulatory environment made with low overhead in mind | 7.10% | 11.00% | 27.50% | 29.10% | 25.30% |
Ease of finding talent | 6.30% | 14.30% | 22.80% | 29.70% | 26.90% |
Proximity to Silicon Valley's investors | 3.30% | 9.10% | 19.80% | 31.00% | 36.80% |
Living and working in an awesome startup- and technology- oriented space | 0.30% | 2.70% | 10.40% | 31.60% | 54.90% |
Coolness factor / fame / getting press | 12.60% | 15.40% | 23.90% | 22.30% | 25.8 |
The linked Stossel segment was run December 22, 2011.
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“How about floating off the coast of Mexico?”
Good idea. That might just work.
I can’t wait to see what 35 foot seas do their grande redneck yacht club.
Both of us are guessing; since there has been NO data indicating what the cost for this ambitious project would be.
There is, however, cost data on what operating a complex mechanical entity offshore would come to.
An offshore oil platform meets a lot of the requirements that this proposed endevour would have included in it.
The world's largest cruise ship passenger capacity is over 8,500 guests-crew-officers, and she's nothing short of a floating city. The biggest passenger ships in the world are actually two identical twins. They are sister vessels of the Oasis-class, belong to the second largest cruise company in the world - Royal Caribbean International, and bare the "modest" (and quite proper, for that matter) names of "Allure" and "Oasis". And, naturally, like all the Royal Caribbean cruise ships names - with the "unpretentious" suffix "of the Seas".
(however, if it sinks, it has 18 lifeboats with 370 capacity each. Ooops! looks like some {around 1,840} will have to swim!)
seems like a necessary step in developing a mad-scientist supervillain
Orlin Grabbe would be proud. He visualized a similar situation in Costa Rica. His group even developed their own cyber currency and banks.
Lisbet and Janes will be taken off homicide to stakeout millionaires that permanently reside on quake proof Blue and commute as necessary
California is really doomed now
I was a vendor for a Korean contractor with offices in Ft Lee New Jersey. They were cheap, cheap, cheap!!!
They had a visa problem for all the people. I don’t think they had any Americans at all. Many of them lived together crammed into small apartments. They all caught the flu and practically shut the place down.
It has been done and here is what is left of the effort. Orlin J Grabbe died but his vision survives
Who will provide them with security from “pirates” and natural/manmade disasters....will our Navy or Coast Guard?
Sounds not too well thought out to me. What is to keep this from becoming a security threat to the United States?
Excellent analysis. I know very little about maritime laws and you gave a nice dose of reality and balance to the topic.
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