Floating startup incubator by Peter Thiel .. Stephan, this is one is for you :)

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MrSimons

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May 14, 2012, 9:11:51 PM5/14/12
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http://mashable.com/2012/05/07/blueseed-pirates-silicon-valley/ 

If you float it, they will come.

That’s the lesson of Blueseed, a brave new utopia for startups that will be anchored in international waters, 12 miles off the coast of the San Francisco peninsula — aka Silicon Valley — sometime in the second half of 2013. The company calls its floating campus the “Googleplex of the sea.”

Blueseed is funded by Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook. Famous for his libertarian views, Thiel is eager to create more havens for startups that are free from all government regulation — indeed, from all laws. (To that end, he has also pledged $1.25 million to the Seasteading Institute.) ......

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Patrick Haller

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May 14, 2012, 10:17:00 PM5/14/12
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On 2012-05-14 18:11, MrSimons wrote:
> Thats the lesson of Blueseed, a brave new utopia for startups that will
> be anchored in international waters, 12 miles off the coast of the San
> Francisco peninsula aka Silicon Valley sometime in the second half of
> 2013. The company calls its floating campus the [2]Googleplex of the
> sea.

Not bad; no tsunamis, no earthquakes. Just sharks and whatever it was
that killed Jim Gray. ;)

parolkar

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May 15, 2012, 7:48:03 PM5/15/12
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Great Stuff!

http://www.slideshare.net/Blueseed/blueseed-visafree-startup-incubator-on-a-ship-12-miles-from-silicon-valley



On May 15, 10:17 am, Patrick Haller <patrick.hal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-05-14 18:11, MrSimons wrote:
>
> >    Thats the lesson ofBlueseed, a brave new utopia for startups that will
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