We have great news at Akoha!
We’re sending out a big batch of Starter Kits today! Many of you who signed up to Akoha and requested one should be receiving them within a week or so.
Starter Kits stacked and ready to go out!
We’re very excited to our welcome new players to the game!!
Fellow Akohans,
What a month! We’ve enjoyed the initial tidal wave of new players, through TechCrunch 50 or by mail, and we’d like to welcome you all to Akoha! We’ve been digesting your feedback and are rolling out changes to make it easier for new users to sign up and play.
We’ve also tweaked the registration, new user and support systems, and have some cool features planned that will allow you to more easily communicate with each other. As a result, you’ll see some announcements from us this week. Also, we have some good news to give to many of those waiting in the beta list about their starter kits.
Stay tuned, big things to come!
The Akoha Team
We’ve been stuffing envelopes all week!
First shipments
Originally uploaded by Akoha.
The first Akoha Starter Kits are in the mail. We don’t know exactly when they’ll show up in mailboxes, but we’re pretty confident that the postal service will get them to you.
I wrote a little message on the first four envelopes for testers who test-ordered from us. Then my hand cramped up. (Ow.) But we still want to thank all of you for playing Akoha and sending us your feedback!
We’ll be stuffing more envelopes and doing more shipments soon. Although we can’t promise exactly when they’ll show up, don’t worry, we’re working as fast as we can!
TechCrunch50 is broadcasting the conference live with their partner UStream which means our fans and supporters can watch our presentation live this morning during the 10:30 Pacific time session on gaming.
We’ve included the live broadcast of the event here. Wish us luck and we look forward to welcoming you into the Akoha community of players soon.
Updated 14:39. Our presentation went really well. If you missed it, you can watch the recorded version below.
Akoha is premiering today during the gaming session at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The session starts at 10:30 Pacific time.
Prediction market provider Hubdub has been running a market on which of the 52 selected companies will win the coveted Best in Show award and our Akoha fans have kept us in the lead for most of the last two days. Currently we are neck and neck with OtherInbox who presented a cool new email spam protection service. Congratulations to them on their presentation.
It will be interesting to see how the predictions evolve once we unveil Akoha later this morning.
Fans can bet up too $1,000 of fake money and register their accounts to see if they can predict who will be the TC50 Best in Show Selection.
We’ve included the live results here for our fans to track the results as the day proceeds.
There have been some great companies launching during the last two days, the competition is impressive and we are very grateful for all the support of our fans have shown us in predicting our success.
If you haven’t voted yet, take a moment to sign up and make a prediction. It’s free and easy to do.
Last year’s TechCrunch40 Best in Show winner Mint had great things to say about what winning the TechCrunch40 last year did for them.
