Not Only Luck.
An essay by John Melonakos

Atlanta Startup Village #10 Recap

Tonight’s Atlanta Startup Village was awesome with 347 registrants! The growth of the event continues.

Here’s a recap of tonight’s companies:

DynoForms
* mobile forms product
* built a mobile form in 4 minutes
* B2B focus on companies with 10 to 3,000 employees
* $10/mo per user
* provide services per form
* all provided in the cloud

M8Safe.com
* 1 out of 3 americans have an STD
* DNA, background, criminal, and drug tests are done to verify dates in the site
* like carfax for online dating

Cycloramic
* turns phone into a true hands free panorama camera
* launched in the end of December
* closing in on 1 million downloads; 400,000 paid; current price is $1.99)
* Steve Wozniak is on their Board of Advisors
* won NY Tines most innovative app of 2012

Frozen Pints
* frozen beer ice cream
* 1-year shelf life
* $6.99 per pint
* work with beer distributors in Georgia
* in Macon, Athens, Atlanta… next up is Savannah

Moocdom
* Massive Open Online Classes
* 22 million unemployed or underemployed in the US
* higher education out of reach for many
* cost of higher education is too high and not providing the skills people need to be productive
* courses are identified for you which would be best for your future employment, search for skills you need to find the right Mooc’s to study
* you can earn entire degrees through Moocdom tuition-free, you can customized your own degree
* monetization is through job placement, compensated by employers for introductions to people with the right skills

It was great to be with everyone and feel the energy of the Atlanta Startup Village crowd at the Atlanta Tech Village tonight.

What were your favorite moments of the evening?