Emad Ibrahim

Startup – ASP.NET MVC, Cloud Scale & Deployment

This is a second post in my startup series (first one).  Warning, this one is a lot more technical than my first one. If you have been following my blog, my company or my twitter page then you probably know that my startup – yonkly – was built with ASP.NET MVC.  In this post, I [...]

Product Ideas – Help Me Decide

I founded www.yonkly.com about 8 months ago and it is at a point now that doesn’t require my full time attention. So, I need to start/create a new product or service and need your opinion on what to do next. I created a very short questionnaire (only 1 required question and no email address is [...]

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 [...]

“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, [...]

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 [...]