Most entrepreneurs are in the dream business—but Max Marty is actually in the business of other people's dreams.

The 28-year-old son of Cuban immigrants, Marty founded Blueseed LLC, a high-tech startup incubator set to open on an ocean vessel off the coast of California. The enterprise is designed to sidestep U.S. immigration restrictions, yet still be close enough to host impromptu meetings with Silicon Valley executives.

“The American Dream has shifted,” Marty told Portfolio.com. “It used to be you follow your dreams, then it switched to climbing the corporate ladder, and now it’s switching again—back to the self-made person.”

Marty describes the current state of U.S. public policy as mired in an "industrial-era mentality" dependent on the support of existing businesses—and as a result, he says that many entrepreneurs are forced to go home or work for legacy companies, stifling the very ingenuity that makes entrepreneurs valuable.

Blueseed was founded in September 2011 and quickly raised $60,000 from various investors. But it wasn’t until all-star investor Peter Thiel got on board to lead a $500,000 seed-funding round that things really started to pick up.

Marty says the company will eventually need between $15 million and $35 million dollars to open and pay the bills until it is cash-positive—with room rates fluctuating based on size, at approximately $1,600 per person per month.

As the former director of business strategy at the Peter Thiel-funded Seasteading Institute—dedicated to creating floating autonomous states for exactly Blueseed's purposes—Marty saw many an entrepreneur come and go with great ideas, but with limited means to implement them within U.S. borders. He says the lost potential covered as diverse a series of needs as there are businesses in the United States, and some that don’t yet exist, ranging from simple chocolate shops to state-of-the art new technologies.

“It used to be the self-made person would get in a wagon and head out West,” and yet today’s immigrants face many more roadblocks to the American Dream than they used to, even if they do have the same entrepreneurial spirit that built this country, says Marty.