During a September Q&A session online , Lena De Winne, the CEO and Vice-President of NGO Asgardia, and the Deputy Head of Administration of Asgardia, addressed a number of questions posted by Asgardians online. In particular, she spoke about startups in Asgardia, and how Asgardians can begin to convert their ideas into businesses.

“ Asgardia in general, as it has been conceived, is a country of startups, a country of new opportunities,” she said. “Quite soon, the Asgardia.com website will become much more populated with information, and one of the areas of expansion will provide an opportunity to make proposals for startups.”

In this, Asgardia is collaborating with Seraphim Venture Capital, a major venture capital organization in Europe and the only one that is space-related. “Asgardia is setting up an approach by which it will co-fund startups. Together with Seraphim, and also on its own, Asgardia is prepared to invest and co-invest and to support the development of startups and their growth within the jurisdiction of Asgardia.”

As for the areas of focus, De Winne said that “those can be space-related projects, but they can also be anything scientific and technological. It can be software, it can be electronic boards, it can be avionics, it can be all sorts of interesting promising start-ups that can be useful for the community and can potentially carry technological and engineering benefits.”

If you have an idea and are willing to see it through, she said, “the business opportunity is there.” She said that a community of experts will conduct an independent review and advise Asgardia on investing into the growth of particular startups.

Where does one begin? “You’re welcome to establish business plans,” De Winne said. “If you have a startup idea and you have a business plan to support this idea, by all means, please do make this proposal. Write it down. Send us the proposal…show a business plan and the revenue streams and the request for investment and how it is meant to grow as a business. We're open to proposals.”

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İçinde bulunduğumuz çıkarcı ve iğrenç sistemin yerine, ortak geleceğimiz Asgardian'da bağnaz düşüncelerden ayrılıp, paranın yerine özgün düşüncelere önem verilen, bilimin ve ilimin bizlere yol göstereceği ve ATATÜRK ilke ve inkılaplarını örnek alarak geleceğimizi inşaa edeceğimiz bu projede bulunmaktan onur ve gurur duyuyorum. Kurucumuz Igor'a bu muhteşem fırsatı sunduğu için teşekkür ediyorum. Burdan da Asgardian Tarım Bakanlığı'na adaylığımı ilan ediyorum. Varlığım Asgardian'a armağan olsun, ne mutlu Asgardianlıyım diyene.

I have only lived thirty years... And yet in that time I feel as though I have accomplished wonders. Looking back, I wonder how I came to be where I am today. I remember the arduous journey, I see the results now, but I still stand in awe I have made so much progress... I have traveled the world, thanks to my father doing security work for the US embassies while in the US Marine Corps, completed my black belt in Tai-Kwon-Do after beginning training in the art at eight years old, free-climbed an eight-hundred-foot tall stone spire called by locals the Rock of Yorin with my father, friends, and other family, won several small local surfing competitions in California and Hawaii, took a career in logistics as a Logistician and Optimizer, study Aerospace Engineering and Advanced Applied Physics at the best school a guy could ever hope to attend, achieved my A- and B-License with the United States Parachute Association for skydiving along with Coach Rating, about to embark on the beginnings of the Seven Summits Expedition next year after a month of mountaineering training in Iceland, and much more.

How does anyone do so much in so little time? Persistence and family and friends kicking me forward every step of the way. Between all of my parents' marriages I have eight brothers and five sisters. Between the guys, growing up was a healthy competition. Blood, sweat, and tears were the currency spent to achieve the next objective.  Having a father who could be hard and unforgiving at exactly the right times and kind and caring at other times gave me the confidence to pursue any damn thing I fancy to master. Impossible is a reckless word; the earlier it is abandoned the better. This little blog post is a tribute to the time and care invested in me by my parents, siblings, friends, teachers, instructors, role models, and mentors growing up and now.

I thank each and every one of you for making me who I am today. I would've stumbled and been lost long ago without you. It would take more space than I have here to list you all, but you know who you are. From the very core of my being: Thank You!!! Blue skies my friends, and may we forever reach higher together.

I just wanted to take some time to personally and thoroughly thank each and every person whom voted for me. I will aspire to be the best I can be, and I will live up to the confidence you have shown in me. I understand there is a level of trust and integrity one expect from the candidate they vote for in any election, and I will strive with all my might to achieve and maintain that standard. This has never been about me, but about all of you! Again, I thank you more than mere words can convey! As we say in the skydiving community: Blue skies! Always.

هيا لنجعل من أسكارديا وطننا للعيش والأمن والسلام و لمساعدة سكان الارض

Let's make Ascardia our nation for life, security and peace and to help the people of the Earth

This message is a hope for realizing the goal of building a suitable place to live because we need the Escardia, the earth lives both internal and external threats, and such an initiative is necessary so that humanity can secure life in this beautiful universe

Faisons d'Ascardia notre nation pour la vie, la sécurité et la paix et pour aider les gens de la Terre
Ce message est un espoir pour réaliser l'objectif d’édifier un lieu convenable pour vivre parce que nous avons besoin d'Escardia, la Terre vit des menaces internes et externes, et une telle initiative est nécessaire pour que l'humanité  puisse sécuriser la vie dans ce bel univers

لنجعل من أسكارديا أمتنا للحياة والأمن والسلام ومساعدة شعوب الأرض
هذه الرسالة هي الأمل في تحقيق هدف بناء مكان مناسب للعيش لأننا بحاجة إلى إسكارديا، الأرض تعيش تهديدات داخلية وخارجية، ومثل هذه المبادرة ضرورية  لحياة آمنة للبشرية في هذا الكون الجميل

It is possible and even necessary to fund and rely on ourselves to achieve our goal of Asgardia, as a true and realistic nation. In this regard, we must take advantage of all our available resources. There is no doubt that the mainstay investment available to the citizens of Asgardia at the present time is the diverse experiences of citizens, ie, to invest in talent. From this perspective, we can create a platform for the launch of several investment and commercial projects around the world, which will return its income to Asgardia as a basis for the establishment of an effective capital covering the expenses of the Government of Asgardia in the long term while providing real employment opportunities for Asgardian citizens wherever they are. It is expected that there will be many obstacles in this way but we can certainly overcome them if we truly believe in our nation and cooperate with each other and intensify our efforts and confidence in ourselves to achieve what we want with sincerity and transparency. On the other hand, any investment project needs the foundations to be based on and be successful and from these foundations, the necessary capital, the right place, and the specialized management of individuals, technicians and manpower capable of implementing the project. These fundamentals are almost available to us and by reviewing the huge number of applicants applying for citizenship, we find that there are specialties in all fields such as: business administration, accounting, computer technology, data processing, projects and construction, trade, export and production , and other disciplines that can benefit Of , which are considered as a stock of experiences and thus a gain for Agardia. As for the capital, which is the basis for these projects, with a simple calculation process, we can provide part of it to launch competitive medium projects. These projects can finance themselves at the beginning and then are developed to be larger and capable of launching and financing other projects. To be realistic, we can now start to collect the capital from the unlimited donations from citizens as much as possible, as well as donations from businessmen around the world who may be enthusiastic about the Asgardia concept. Here, media and propaganda play the role of promoting this idea to gain the most donations. (And Again we must sincerely thank Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli for taking the expenses of establishing the Asgardia nation and making this a concrete reality. We must continue to achieve this goal by completing what He has begun) . Of course, the concept of capital must be accompanied by the principle of the bank and hence the need for the establishment of the Central Bank of Asgardia and its branches around the world, which will be the first real project, and it can collect and invest funds. On this basis, the concept of cryptocurrency becomes ineffective if we are to create realistic projects and investments, and the need is for a real currency to compete against other currencies and able to speculate on global stock markets