The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: Joep wrote:@realpra, look

[quote=Joep]

@realpra, look at my extremely elaborate business plan here: http://seasteading.org/blogs/main/2011/08/26/the-seasteading-institutes-position-recent-details-article

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Sorry, I couldn't find your post on business planning... unless it was the thing about signing up 1/60 of the seasteaders here and getting investors, could you PM me the exact text otherwise?
I doubt that'll be enough you see, we need an income source out there, not just a bunch of poor people looking for cheap condos.

[quote=Joep]
I think a good Seastead operator should not bother its clients with donations or political visions. Apart from "we're green", companies are never open about what their political beliefs are, and that's a good thing. The product and its price is what matters.
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Though a company probably wouldn't care about politics its important for a company to know that there will be law, order and that contracts will be kept. Additionally many seasteaders are 50% into politics and 50% into seasteading if not more into politics.
We have contact with over 6 active seasteaders in Denmark and all of them care about the politics in some way or another.

Furthermore at FloatHaven our position is that without a more efficient/freer government you might as well buy cheap land somewhere in the world - trust me theres plenty of it and not just desolate desert either.
We see our politics as a sales argument, not something holding us back.

Naturally the politics would be of concern to the FloatHaven movement only and not the companies involved just as companies in the US aren't necessarily in favour of Obama, they just cooexist and cooperate.
Our great leader (guy we have posting political blogs anyway...) also explained how taxes would work in a very non bureaucratic way and that corporations would not pay any tax. Hopefully we can still provide welfare through the increased efficiency of a science based technocratic society.
Our laws should also be simple, but I can't remember his blog too well.

That said our focus is constructing a design that works first.
[quote=Joep]
A Seastead operator should not be the one who thinks about the best market but should focus on the best infrastructure possible at sea. Your site needs a PDF listing square foot prices, a minimum bandwidth for the internet connection and all the assurances cruise ships offer (food, electricity, doctors, safety etc). Any company offering that will attract customers for sure. A lot of ventures have been discussed here (medical, outsourcing, holiday, casino, etc), but someone who actually wants to set up one of them will probably not want to do both the infrastructure and his own idea at the same time.
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This is a good idea and I agree that we need to provide such things however you have to keep in mind that we have funds enough to buy HALF a normal glass fibre boat - in short we can provide NOTHING right now.
As such our focus is making the platform first. Once it works we can make a sales pitch and hopefully we'll get contracted or get an investor. THEN we WILL make a document with square meter price for sure, but right now we don't even know if it floats let alone the final price.

If you wish you can make a sales pitch for Maersk or some other big shot and I'll send it on behalf of us just for fun and get laughed at:
1. Focus on storage capacity.
2. The need to finish developing the technology.
3. Living space/floating platforms for oil platform personel, wave energy facilities or floating wind turbines - mention Hywind here.
4. Weight 3+ ton/m^2 and 20$-200$/m^2 with a minimum of 100.000$ in tech development/research start up costs.

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