ordord00's comments

I have a 12 year old daughter and 10 year old son. My daughter has been reading voraciously since about 9 years old. This past summer she plowed through several 800-1000 page books.

My son is not nearly as voracious as she is, but has, in the past 6 months started to really value his reading time, enough that he gets upset when things interfere with it. Also, he now goes out and researches books to read (often via YouTube during his Youtube time). I think what got him here was consistency.

We've read to them every night until they were in second grade and then required them to read overnight. It took a while to take hold with both, but once it did they dove in and now really value it.

As for what he is reading - Diary of a wimpy kid series, Percy Jackson, Mysterious Benedict Society are the current favorites.

This is the way. My son (10) went from actively trying to do anything else while he was supposed to be reading, to actually settling down and reading continuously for at least 30 minutes every night. We've had the rule since he was 6, but it seems like in the last year he has flipped from not being that interested to now highly valuing it and being upset if something impinges on his reading time... which of course we will extend bed time a bit to ensure he gets his reading time.

I got one. I started a consulting business (for the purpose of bootstrapping a startup) just before SXSW last this past year. My partners and I were looking for a product to build around that time when we were approached by another business savvy startup that needed a strong development team. We immediately started working together and now have our first version of the product rolling out to select Hooters restaurants tomorrow. If we had not gone to SXSW we would have never run into this other group of guys and stumbled into a really, really strong product with an amazing business model.

I am almost certain that this site is merely a demo for their backend. Look at their board... a former managing partner at In-Q-Tel is on it. My guess is the US government is a serious potential buyer based on that. But who knows, they have well connected investors who could also help them land deals with bigger content creators.