Winners of Sink or Swim Business Plan Contest!
HumanIPO team wishes to congratulate all Sink or Swim Business Plan Contest winners for coming up with original ideas and for making an effort and submitting their plans.
Sink or Swim business plan contest was about coming up with an idea that could be implemented on a platform 25 miles off the coast of a large first-world city, such as Miami or Shanghai. Furthermore, the entrants had to assume that the legal and regulatory environment abroad a seastead is tailored toward the efficient functioning and operation of their business.
The winners are:
$5000 Grand Prize – Delishus Fishes by Mike Doty and Travis Cannell
$2000 Second Place Winner – Boundless Talent Consulting Services by Theresa Klein
$1500 HumanIPO favourite – Res Judicata by Michelle and Thrond Toftely
$750 Most Creative – Children of the Sea by Arthur B
$750 Best Seasteading PR – Aquaculture Testbed and Investment by Robert Lee and Team
It was our pleasure to facilitate the competition on HumanIPO platform and we are happy to see that The Seasteading Institute with its floating cities initiative and liberal thinking is gaining more and more support. Needless to say – we are excited to see the first Poseidon Award hopefully given away to the first seastead by 2015.
In our blog, we will be covering all of the winners of the competition starting with Delishus Fishes who won the Grand Prize of $5000. The other will follow, so check back soon.
Delishus Fishes by Mike Doty and Travis Cannell
Delishus Fishes will operate an offshore aquaculture farm on a large ship or Seastead, solving logistical and regulatory problems that are currently hampering the development of an industrial scale offshore aquaculture farm. The market looks very attractive because the global demand for fish is growing faster than population growth while supplies are dwindling due to overfishing. The fragmented aquaculture industry makes up less than 50% of the current supply. Regulation in the United States has not kept pace with evolving technology, hampering the relatively new development of open ocean aquaculture which allows fish to grow in large cages moored miles offshore. Using a Seastead as the base of operations, Delishus Fishes will pioneer industrial scale offshore aquaculture.
Utilizing a coastal Seastead or ship outside of territorial waters but close to a country open to offshore aquaculture would solve two of the largest problems preventing a truly industrial sized aquaculture farm from starting: regulations for growth and limited access to clean water.
Delishus Fishes is a viable opportunity, not only to launch the first actual Seastead, but to pioneer an industry that operates in a large global market with excellent growth rates.
See more details about Delishus Fishes business plan on HumanIPO - http://www.humanipo.com/startup/delishus-fishes
