Hi. It’s a busy week for us at BOKU with folks attending MWC in Barcelona and Engage Expo in New York.
If you’re at either of the two shows and would like to meet up, please email bd at boku dotcom.
Hope to see you there,
The BOKU team
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Visit with BOKU - Barcelona or New York
February 15, 2010BOKU Showcases at Under The Radar.
November 23, 2009
Last Thursday, BOKU’s co-founder Ron Hirson presented in front of 350 attendees at Dealmaker Media’s Under The Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. Ron was there to highlight what we were doing as a company and what we were doing to help “beat the odds” and offer some insight for startups presenting on what they could do to succeed. You can view Ron’s presentation by clicking here.
Here are some photos from BOKU’s showing at Under The Radar:
BOKU gear at the Under The Radar conference.
Ron showing Greg Grunberg, from the NBC show Heroes, the BOKU-copter.
Greg Grunberg playing with the BOKU-copter.
Ron being interviewed by BNetTV.com
Ron showing how the BOKU-copter works to BNetTV.com
Boku Live From The Virtual Goods Summit.
October 30, 2009We’re here at the Virtual Goods Summit in San Francisco to continue to let people know who we are. We brought along our legendary Boku Copter and track jackets that we’re going to give away to some lucky people attending the conference. In order to win, all they have to do is wear a Boku button and display it in the most creative way.
During the morning breaks, we gave away a couple of American Apparel-style jackets and even some cool remote controlled helicopters that we got some lucky winners to try out and fly out in the foyer of the Westin hotel.
8:45 am - Boku at the Virtual Goods Summit.
Introducing the Boku Copter - we’re giving them away to some lucky attendees!
11:15 am - We’re at the Virtual Goods Summit!
11:29 am The first winner shown playing with the Boku Copter.
11:33 am - Andy is the second recipient of the Boku Copter.
11:45 am - Robbyn receives the third Boku Copter!
2:37 am - People just love our Boku Copter!
2:43 pm - The Boku Copter makes its way through the crowd.
More photos from our giveaway can be found on our Flickr page.
See some video of the Boku Copter by visiting our YouTube page.
Virtual Goods Summit - and VGSUniversity
October 29, 2009We’ll be at the Virtual Goods Summit today and tomorrow.
I’m speaking at 4:15 on the following panel:
The Payments Landscape – Virtual Goods Payment Options
- Lex Bayer, Spare Change
- Adam Caplan, Super Rewards
- Ron Hirson, BOKU
- Will O’Brien, TrialPay
- Roger Wood, ORCA
- Moderator: Charles Hudson, Virtual Goods Summit
We’ll also be giving away BOKOpters and American Apparel jackets tomorrow. Details tomorrow.
BOKU at Virtual Goods Summit
Hope to see you there.
If you want to meet up dm @hirson or email chris.hickson [at] boku dotcom or kurt [at] boku dotcom.
BOKU Team
GDC Austin
September 14, 2009We will be at GDC Austin, so ping us if you would like to meet up.
kurt @ boku dotcom.
GDC Austin
BOKU Event: Metrics & Monetization
September 11, 2009Thanks to everyone who made Wednesday night’s event a success. A special thanks to Shay/TMA. The feedback we’ve received has blown us away and kudos go to the speakers who put together insightful presentations (and revealed a bunch of numbers):
* RockYou – Jia Shen
* MySpace – Rita Garg
* Meez – Sean Ryan
* Aeria Games – JT Nguyen
* Gambit – Noah Kagan
We’ve had a lot of requests for the presentations, and watched as guests furiously took notes (Did you get the list of countries where easy money can be made from Noah? Or, The formula for Free-to-Play success from JT?). While we aren’t going to post the presentations to the web, because of the sensitivity of some of the data and special sauce behind the companies, we are going to be hosting more events, so let us know if you’d like to be added to the guest-list.
Instead, here’s a peek behind the scenes into how we make the BOK’opters that were part of the giveaway competition. Mike Cahill (no relation to John from Meez – get well soon), from our engineering team, hand-makes each one with the able assistance of Trisha.
Congrats to the winners of the helicopter flying contest.
We’ll see you at the next event.
Boku Blog- BOKU at Digiday:Mobile March 8, 2010Come on out to Universal City to hear BOKU at Digiday:Mobile. Ron Hirson will be on a panel with: Moderator: Meaghan Schaefer, CMO, edo interactive Speakers: Darren Cross, Director of Business Development, Fandango John Trimble, Chief Revenue Officer, Pandora Ian Wolfman, Chief Marketing Officer, imc² Jeanniey Mullen, Global EVP, CMO, Zinio Ron Hirson, SVP […]admin
- BOKU and Globe GCASH Are Creating a Blueprint for International Mobile Payments February 16, 2010Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with Globe GCASH, a leading mobile operator in the Philippines, to create a model for mobile payments of virtual, and eventually, physical goods. Through this great partnership, both companies will extend their reach to a larger international community that we think will benefit from being [...]bokunews
- Visit with BOKU - Barcelona or New York February 15, 2010BOKU attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and Engage Expo Virtual Goods in New York.bokunews
- BOKU is excited to announce a new round of funding and the launch of Paymo! January 20, 2010Today is a great day for BOKU, and we're excited to share our announcements with the everyone. The first piece of news to share is a new round of funding for BOKU. We received $25 million in a round led by DAG Ventures with participation from Benchmark Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Index Ventures.bokunews
- Mobile Donation to Haiti January 14, 2010Many of you are aware of the tragic 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday. The impacts to this already impoverished nation are staggering and help of any kind is being sought. We wanted to let you know of a program where mobile payments can be used for donations and we’re reaching out to friends [...]Ron
- BOKU at Digiday:Mobile March 8, 2010