{"id":40841,"date":"2023-10-20T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/innovative-tech-company-blueseed-docks-off-shore-to-take-advantage-of-visa-free-territory-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:10:19","slug":"innovative-tech-company-blueseed-docks-off-shore-to-take-advantage-of-visa-free-territory-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/innovative-tech-company-blueseed-docks-off-shore-to-take-advantage-of-visa-free-territory-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative tech company Blueseed docks off shore to take advantage of visa-free territory &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual tech incubator in the United States plans to help entrepreneurs do business in Silicon Valley by offering space on a vessel in international waters.     <span id=\"more-4194\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blueseed, led by chief executive Max Marty, is launching a visa-free tech start-up incubator on an ocean vessel, located approximately 20 kilometres off the coast of Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s outside the jurisdiction of the United States, but close enough to the Valley that you could meet face-to-face with potential investors and clients,\u201d Blueseed says on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur facilities will be a short ferry ride away from Silicon Valley\u2026 while having convenient access to the San Francisco Bay Area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will provide a customised environment centered around smart, proven, cost-effective legal best practices, and modern living and work accommodations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blueseed is currently seeking investment for the project and hopes to launch the vessel in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect most start-ups to be aboard for nine months to two years, after which they will likely either have outgrown our accommodations or gone under,\u201d Marty told humanipo.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key to this play is to create a Googleplex on the water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Wardell, founder of Sydney-based crowdfunding platform Project PowerUp, is attempting to secure funding for Blueseed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though Australians don\u2019t face the same visa issues [as other nationalities wanting to visit the US], I think Blueseed has a lot of potential as a stepping stone for Aussie start-ups wanting to move to Silicon Valley or wanting to spend a couple of weeks scoping it out,\u201d Wardell says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see it as being a long-term thing \u2013 I\u2019m not sure about that part of their plan. But I definitely see its merits as a short-term, two to four-week landing pad for start-ups wanting to check out the Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other start-ups are less enthused by the idea. Geoff McQueen, founder of tech start-up Hiive, says he \u201cwouldn\u2019t go near the cruise ship idea with a barge pole\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpending two to four weeks offshore\u2026 is no way to experience Silicon Valley. You might as well drop anchor off the coast of Antarctica,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is that on a cruise ship, you\u2019re not going to get any of the chance introductions that make all the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand, you could come to Silicon Valley with a 90-day window under the Visa Waiver Program, effectively no questions asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McQueen advises start-ups to do their research before they arrive, including working out which conferences to attend and making contact with people beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual tech incubator in the United States plans to help entrepreneurs do business in Silicon Valley by offering space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}