I had the same problem and tried to only connect to nodes that had all blocks (found out from debug.log). This made it not go past the genesis block.

Finally I got it to sync past block 0 and 68880. I downloaded the first blocks from the tek-blkindex.zip file in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289490.0. Just replace the files in the datadir.

For reference this is the addnode-list I used:
addnode=212.225.158.197
addnode=24.84.213.145
addnode=198.14.193.179
addnode=74.111.113.37
addnode=68.61.25.14
addnode=5.150.214.19
addnode=64.251.188.32
addnode=108.58.12.53
addnode=81.106.149.139
addnode=162.243.43.190
addnode=159.20.131.162
addnode=66.85.144.228
addnode=98.225.0.181
addnode=213.21.32.89