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by siruva07 6y ago
This validates what VC Dave McClure has said since 2010. He literally named his firm “500 Startups.” https://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/investment-thesis-fund...
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by siruva07 6y ago
thanks for the suggestion. ordered on amazon :)
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by siruva07 6y ago
Hi HN, I’m on a personal mission to eliminate the single use plastic water bottle. I always carry my refillable bottle but don’t always know where to refill it. In fact, water fountains currently aren’t points of interest on Google or Apple
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Show HN: Waze for Water(findtap.com)
1 points by siruva07 6y ago|1 comments
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by siruva07 6y ago
Hi HN, I’m on a personal mission to eliminate the single use plastic water bottle. I always carry my refillable bottle but don’t always know where to refill it. In fact, water fountains currently aren’t points of interest on Google or Apple
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Show HN: Compass to find nearby water refill stations(findtap.com)
3 points by siruva07 6y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Leaderboard for “Plastic Bottles Saved” drinking fountain counters(findtap.com)
1 points by siruva07 6y ago|0 comments
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by siruva07 7y ago
Because I invested my own money as an angel at the series B...
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by siruva07 7y ago
Tell that to coke, pepsi, and nestle
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Show HN: Tap water you can trust(findtap.com)
13 points by siruva07 7y ago|4 comments
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by siruva07 7y ago
Join us then in the fight against Coke/Pepsi/Nestle which have done exactly that for 30 years to the tune of billions of dollars. Read up on Coke's "Cap the Tap" program and you'll see why I started Tap
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by siruva07 7y ago
Atmospheric Water Generators will also allow us to decentralize where water is filtered and distributed from. Literally made from thin air and requires no pipes. We will add these to our fleet in the future.
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by siruva07 7y ago
1. increase water filtration or skip the pipes all together with an atmospheric water generator (makes water out of thin air) 2. I won't comment on this, but for a comp, LinkNYC (Free Wifi kiosks) pays hundreds of millions to its partn
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by siruva07 7y ago
Thanks for reading :)
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by siruva07 7y ago
According to the American Water Works Association https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/cat-item/drinking_w...
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by siruva07 7y ago
Yes it does.
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by siruva07 7y ago
serial entrepreneur, actually. I started a similar company but was too early, and invested in a successor. I’ve never been a VC.
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by siruva07 7y ago
Every single day. The reality is your attention had a cost, and the price of quality tap water is less than that cost. We will also enable a donation based model for water. Future revenue generating opportunities include sparkling and flavo
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by siruva07 7y ago
As for the price of water, it trades like a commodity just like oil. Water already has a price per oz that differs around the world. If you’re privileged enough to have tap water, you have the best least expensive water access on the planet
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by siruva07 7y ago
Yes, we will release a web version of our map. We will also build an API to allow other apps, like Foursquare, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Open Street Maps, and Waze to add locations for water access points.
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by siruva07 7y ago
@findtap Founder here. https://findtap.com/ AMA
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by siruva07 7y ago
LDF raised $100MM...Leo didn’t personally donate $100MM.
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by siruva07 8y ago
i highly recommend you read Let There Be Water. Israel's solutions for a water starved world are going to save this planet. Your anti-semetic color commentary won't go far in the water world. https://www.adl.org/re
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by siruva07 8y ago
the solution is to change consumer behavior by unlocking convenience using technology. and carrying one's own bottle...see my note on thread.
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by siruva07 8y ago
Hi, I'm the founder of Tap previously the CEO and Founder of MakeSpace. Earlier this year I began working on a new company with the goal of eliminating the single use plastic water bottle. Earlier this year I made an observation, the f
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by siruva07 10y ago
You were once my (first!) intern trying to hock background checks before any p2p services needed identity verifications as a service. I couldn't be more proud. This may get downvoted to hell (or to invisible), but ef it ;-)
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by siruva07 10y ago
We also don't hear much about the people that YC rejects which is, in my humble opinion, equally if not more indicative. Because often times founders during YC's program change their idea (I think Ark.com was an example IIRC). I w
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Deliv partners with UPS to help retailers “out Amazon, Amazon”(insights.upfront.com)
1 points by siruva07 11y ago|0 comments
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by siruva07 11y ago
Breakup, as captured by my fitbit aria scale http://imgur.com/ePX7o8m It gets better and life goes on :)
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by siruva07 11y ago
As a kid, I remember my grandfather taking me often to Nellie Bly Amusement Park in Brooklyn, NY. Now renamed "Adventurer's Park" https://jimvid.smugmug.com/Amusement-Park/Nellie-Bly-Amuseme... As in the

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