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Hi Michael, Aaron, I'm a co-founder of an educational games platform based in the Netherlands. At the moment, games on the market that are targeted at K-6 students are not that much fun, they are not thoroughly aligned to school curriculums (just to CCSS goals in the US), and they're not connected in terms of content + analytics.

We've built 4 games, generate content for math questions (and soon starting work on literacy), and have a dashboard for teachers/parents. Early pilot results are quite positive (most importantly, children want to play the games at home).

I've been thinking about the next step in 3-6 months: should we expand to a neighbouring country (e.g. France, UK) or start looking at the US. The latter seems to be the first choice for most startups originating from Europe, but our improvement over existing competitors is much more in non-English speaking countries than it would be in the US (as 90% of educational apps are English). Any thoughts on this?

Also: what is YC's view on EdTech startups? It seems there haven't been many in recent batches.

On the bottom of the page it says "Powered by readme" and links here: https://readme.io/

You should look at Art4Apps: http://www.art4apps.org/

It's a library of images in the same dimensions and a uniform style, licensed under Creative Commons.

They created it for developers of educational apps, but it could work just as well for worksheets!

There are quite a lot of these contests, namely the various X PRIZE competitions: http://www.xprize.org/

They aren't taking the IP and are also giving the cash as a pure incentive, meant to inspire new innovations in a certain sector.

Well in the Netherlands it's 1800 euros a year for Dutch students, so that's not free but still very inexpensive.

(note that it's significantly more expensive for foreign students though)

At Unfilled, we are trying to rethink and improve the way people learn how to read, write and code and we are currently looking for a Designer to be part of our co-founding team.

You will find yourself designing the wireframes for the mobile app, newsletters, presentations about the product and more. You will also be working with other teammates sharing knowledge and learning from each other.

Furthermore, you can play a role in changing the world, as the platform we're creating could potentially impact millions of lives.

If you are interested in being part of our team, take a look at the key points we are looking for: http://unfilled.org/get-involved/

If you think this position fits to you, just send an email to jeroen[at]unfilled.org and we'll get back to you!

http://unfilled.org/

This is simply not true, the US has both signed and ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention [1], though it still has to destroy some of their stockpile [2].

[1] http://www.opcw.org/about-opcw/member-states/

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/11/us/u-s-chemical-weapons/

This is very evident when you start watching TED Talks.

Nearly every single one starts with a personal story, which probably means they are trained to use this technique.

Sent you an invite!

Definitely agree that networking is one of the best parts.

I was at the same Startup Weekend the author of the post started Party With a Local at (swAMS '12) and one of the people I met there is now my co-founder!

(and I recently had a reunion with my team)

"The researchers, led by Ken Nakayama and Richard Russell at Harvard and Bradley Duchaine at University College London, have found evidence that prosopagnosia, once thought to be exceedingly rare, may affect up to 2 percent of the population – suggesting that millions of people may be face-blind."

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/06/face-blindness...

"Recently, a hereditary sub-type of congenital prosopagnosia with a very high prevalence rate of 2.5% has been identified."

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/174866407X231001/...

I can definitely confirm this, at least in The Netherlands literally everybody uses Whatsapp and it has slowly become a verb - "I'll whatsapp you the details!".

It's far from the best messaging app, but definitely the most popular (in Europe).

There are actually quite a few startups doing this already, e.g. Verbling: https://www.verbling.com/

I noticed you had vacancies for Marketing and Social Media interships, would you be interested in Engineering interns as well?

Any chance you might be interested in summer interns?

You should probably ask this question on StackOverflow.com

Accessible != Simple

The form on that page is meant for organizations, read what it says:

"Individuals: Go to the action pages at Access, CREDO, EFF and Free Press to add your name."

It might be noteworthy that Google said so as well on Google I/O.

Of course, they are not the most objective source, but they do have the whole Google Analytics dataset.

(GA runs on about 55% of all websites: http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/traffic_analysis/al...)

I'd like to start learning to read faster as well; however, I don't have an iPad, but an Android phone.

I found a few apps (https://play.google.com/store/search?q=speed+reading&c=a...), but I was wondering if someone has already tested some of these and can offer a recommendation?