A Floating Silicon Valley for Techies Without Green Cards

From TheAtlanticCities.com:

Blueseed, a Silicon Valley start-up, is trying to do an end run around the broken immigration systems by dreaming up a “floating startup incubator.” It would circumvent immigration laws the same way that gaming businesses once avoided gambling restrictions, by parking their clients on a ship in international waters.

Ars Technica reports that founder Max Marty and his team are “hard at work making their vision of a floating, year-round hack-a-thon a reality.”

Key to Blueseed’s plan is the B-1 Business Visa, which allows its holders to travel to the U.S. for business meetings, conferences, and seminars. Clients would live and work aboard the ship and take ferries to shore to meet with potential investors. Read more…

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