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		<title>Floating, Lawless Tech Incubator Scores $300,000 to Build Libertarian Paradise</title>

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<p>Paging Peter Thiel! <a href="http://www.blueseed.co/">Blueseed</a>, a <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/06/blueseed-seasteading-floating-tech-incubator-boat/">sea-faring tech incubator</a> that aims to skirt visa laws by hosting its programs in international waters, has <a href="http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/14/blueseed-secures-300k-for-visa-free-tech-center-of-the-sea/">raised</a> $300,000 from Silicon Valley investor <a href="https://twitter.com/m2jr">Mike Maples</a>. The startup incubator and business center intends to provide a place for non-US citizens to have the same access to the ideas and capital in the Valley without having to go through the complicated visa process. Though it's just a fraction of the $10-30 million needed for the project to actually take off, no doubt Silicon Valley's principled libertarian population will be excited to hear the news.</p>
<p><!--more-->Last we checked in with the Valley libertarians, Peter Thiel pal Patri Friedman was <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/06/peter-thiels-interesting-new-investment/">preparing</a> a book on Seasteading, the practice of living at sea in order to avoid national laws. Blueseed, meanwhile, raised $500,000 in September 2011 and is <a href="http://blueseed.co/quick-facts/">planning</a> to launch at the end of this year.</p>
<p>According to the venture's site, it will cost about $1,600 per month per person to live and work on the floating incubator, which will be anchored approximately 12 miles from Silicon Valley. "We’ll charge a combination of rent and equity to accommodate the stage of your startup," <a href="http://blueseed.co/quick-facts/">reads</a> the site. "The price per person will include living and office space, and will range from $1200 for a shared cabin to $3000 for a top-tier single accommodation cabin."</p>
<p>This may be the closest to a libertarian paradise we'll get any time soon, as the Peter Thiel-funded Future Cities project, which sought to build its own autonomous utopia within Honduras, was <a href="http://www.futurecitiesdev.com/about-us/">shut down</a> in October 2012.</p>
<p>Fear not: we're sure the high-rolling Mr. Thiel has plenty of soft $100 bills to wipe his tears away.</p>
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<p>Paging Peter Thiel! <a href="http://www.blueseed.co/">Blueseed</a>, a <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/06/blueseed-seasteading-floating-tech-incubator-boat/">sea-faring tech incubator</a> that aims to skirt visa laws by hosting its programs in international waters, has <a href="http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/14/blueseed-secures-300k-for-visa-free-tech-center-of-the-sea/">raised</a> $300,000 from Silicon Valley investor <a href="https://twitter.com/m2jr">Mike Maples</a>. The startup incubator and business center intends to provide a place for non-US citizens to have the same access to the ideas and capital in the Valley without having to go through the complicated visa process. Though it's just a fraction of the $10-30 million needed for the project to actually take off, no doubt Silicon Valley's principled libertarian population will be excited to hear the news.</p>
<p><!--more-->Last we checked in with the Valley libertarians, Peter Thiel pal Patri Friedman was <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/06/peter-thiels-interesting-new-investment/">preparing</a> a book on Seasteading, the practice of living at sea in order to avoid national laws. Blueseed, meanwhile, raised $500,000 in September 2011 and is <a href="http://blueseed.co/quick-facts/">planning</a> to launch at the end of this year.</p>
<p>According to the venture's site, it will cost about $1,600 per month per person to live and work on the floating incubator, which will be anchored approximately 12 miles from Silicon Valley. "We’ll charge a combination of rent and equity to accommodate the stage of your startup," <a href="http://blueseed.co/quick-facts/">reads</a> the site. "The price per person will include living and office space, and will range from $1200 for a shared cabin to $3000 for a top-tier single accommodation cabin."</p>
<p>This may be the closest to a libertarian paradise we'll get any time soon, as the Peter Thiel-funded Future Cities project, which sought to build its own autonomous utopia within Honduras, was <a href="http://www.futurecitiesdev.com/about-us/">shut down</a> in October 2012.</p>
<p>Fear not: we're sure the high-rolling Mr. Thiel has plenty of soft $100 bills to wipe his tears away.</p>
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