Emad Ibrahim

Startup – How To Build A Web 2.0 Business: The Risks

If you have been reading along, I probably sound like a broken record, talking about how I quit my job over a year ago and decided to go solo (here and here).  It has been a tough but fun ride so far and I have made a few mistakes and learned a lot on the [...]

Shortening URLs with bit.ly’s API in .NET

I previously wrote about shortening URLs with TinyURL’s API but my new favorite URL shortener is http://bit.ly and it also has a great API that you can use from within your .net code.  I just recently used in my twitter contest website – tweetastica. The code is also very simple.  I didn’t add all the extra [...]

“I Quit” 1 Year Anniversary

It has been a year since I quit my job and decided to go independent.  I didn’t know what I was going to do, the economic outlook wasn’t good, I had two rental properties and a condo that I didn’t know how I was going to pay for.  I was armed with only hope, ambition, [...]

Yonkly in Top 25 Social Networks?

There is a blog post on compete.com’s blog about the top 25 social networks.  As expected, Facebook is on top spot and Twitter has climbed to 3rd.  What is interesting to me though is the fact that Ning is number 12.  That validates Yonkly’s business model and direction and as Twitter’s popularity (and microblogs in [...]

Services Worth Paying For as a Startup

[Update: added crowdsound] If you have been reading my blog or following me on Twitter then you already know that I quit my job almost a year ago and launched my first startup (Yonkly) a few months ago. The economy sucks, we are bootstrapped and doing whatever it takes to survive – I hope that kid I [...]