Dario Mutabdzija is an American entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, who co-founded the seed accelerator project Blueseed. He was previously Director of Legal Strategy at The Seasteading Institute.[4] He is now head of business development at Israeli startup PayKey.[5]
Dario Mutabdzija | |
|---|---|
 Mutabdzija, Co-founder and President, Blueseed, Inc. | |
| Born | 1979 or 1980 (age 43–44)[1] |
| Education | McGeorge School of Law, University of Salzburg JD '08 and LL.M. '09, Transnational Business Practice[2] University of Hawaii at Hilo, BA Communications[3] |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Blueseed |
Biography
editMutabdzija was born in Sarajevo[3] and immigrated in the United States with his family in the 1990s due to the breakout of the Bosnian War.[6] He graduated from University of Hawaii at Hilo with a B.S. in Communications. In 2008, he obtained a JD from the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, and in 2009 a joint LL.M. in Transnational Business Practice from the same school and the University of Salzburg, Austria. Prior to The Seasteading Institute, he interned at the Vienna office of multinational law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.[2]
Blueseed
editBlueseed is a startup community project that Mutabdzija co-founded in July 2011[7] with Seasteading Institute colleague Max Marty.[8][9] The project is preparing to launch a ship near Silicon Valley to serve as a startup community and entrepreneurial incubator without United States work visa requirements. The platform is set to offer living and office space, high-speed Internet connectivity, and regular ferry service to the mainland.[8][9] The existence of the project is due to the lack of U.S. visas for entrepreneurs. Instead, customers will use the much easier to obtain B-1/B-2 visas to travel to the mainland, while work will be done exclusively on the ship.[8][9]
Appearances
editMutabdzija's first television appearances were in December 2011, on the Stossel Show with John Stossel.[10] and on Fox Business in an interview with Shibani Joshi.[11]
Later, he was interviewed about Blueseed on the BBC,[12] on Charlie Rose's CBS This Morning by Jeff Glor,[13] on CNN during the Erin Burnett OutFront show,[14] and on First Business.[15]
References
edit- ^ Bruder, Jessica (December 14, 2011). "A Start-Up Incubator That Floats". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "Young Alumnus Floats 'Geek Boat' Concept". McGeorge School of Law. January 4, 2012. Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
- ^ a b "TSI Welcomes its new Director of Legal Strategy, Dario Mutabdzija". The Seasteading Institute. November 24, 2010.
- ^ "TechCrunch Profiles Shipsteading Startup Blueseed". November 14, 2011.
- ^ "WIRED Money 2016 Startup Stage: new ways to pay". Wired. 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Floating city conceived as high-tech incubator". The Globe and Mail. Feb 24, 2012.
- ^ a b c Lee, Timothy (2011-11-29). "Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator". Ars Technica. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ a b c Donald, Brooke (16 December 2011). "Blueseed Startup Sees Entrepreneur-Ship as Visa Solution for Silicon Valley". Huffington Post. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
- ^ Stossel, John (Dec 22, 2011). "Stossel Thu, Dec 22, 2011 - "What A Wonderful World"". Fox Business Network. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
- ^ "Boosting Foreign Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley". Fox Business Network. Dec 23, 2011.
- ^ "Blueseed's start-up ship to steer past US immigration laws". BBC. 4 June 2012.
- ^ "Floating city for high-tech start-ups?". CBS. July 30, 2012.
- ^ "No work visa necessary if your startup is in the sea". CNN. October 18, 2012. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012.
- ^ Moller, Bill (April 3, 2013). "Dario Mutabdzija interview". First Business.