http://www.veerwest.com Web 2.0 Startup Blog - Notes on web development, software as a service and entrepreneurship. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:40:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Veer West is a small "virtual" company. We spend more time working from home, coffee shops or on trips that in our actual office. It's working well for us, but it's not without challenges. First of all, it's important that we can access all our documents and applications from anywhere. Thankfully, ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/productivity/how-we-work-or-why-we-ditched-campfire-and-moved-to-google-wave We, perhaps naively, think that working at Veer West is not a typical job, and we're looking for people who know how to stand out. We try to be specific in our job descriptions, but we are in fact quite flexible and open minded. We don't want to tell you that ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/jobs/how-to-apply-for-a-job-at-veer-west We're a small team and we consider ourselves a startup, even though we're not in the Valley, we haven't raised any venture capital (we're not planning to)  and we happen to be profitable. We're not trying to change the world (just yet).  We're patient. We take one day at a time. ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/jobs/working-at-veer-west Inspired by a recent post by 37signals, I set out once more to try to optimize our sign-up funnel on FormAssembly.com. We track a lot of information with Google Analytics. Goal conversion rates, e-commerce revenues, adword campaigns, search keywords, referrers and so on. Collecting information is easy, but trying to make ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/website-optimization/saved-from-information-overload I talked to quite a few people at the Startup School event this weekend, and I was surprised to find that almost everyone was working on consumer startups with advertisement as a business model. One startup, Noca, is even forfeiting one of the most lucrative revenue models there is (payment ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/strategy/thoughts-on-startup-school If you looked at FormAssembly.com recently but decided that using a third-party service to manage your web forms wasn't the right solution for you, we have some good news. FormAssembly On-Site is now available. The On-Site edition offers the same great features enjoyed by thousands of our online users, but you ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/the-form-assembly/formassembly-on-site-take-ownership-of-your-web-forms Still adjusting stuff here and there, but overall it's going smoothly... quite a relief! http://www.veerwest.com/blog/web-development/the-new-formassemblycom-launched So Alex Russell (of Dojo fame), not too happy about where CSS3 is going, suggests of a few more important things that should be considered for inclusion in the CSS standard. For instance, an @importRule directive. Several commenters have pointed out that @importRule would not be that useful since you can ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/web-development/alex-russells-importrule FormAssembly.com started two years ago as a free form building tool and a repository for an open-source javascript library for web forms. It has since evolved into a commercial web application with thousands of customers using it to process their web forms and collect data. Yet, many aspects of ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/web-development/getting-ready-to-launch-the-new-formassemblycom Freja is a specialized Javascript Framework for creating template-based, single-screen web applications. It relies on browser-side XSL Transformation to render the user interface faster than any other Ajax-based method. A simple demonstration is available here, with all the explanations here. Version 2.1 includes bug fixes and performance improvements. The major changes are: Upgraded ... http://www.veerwest.com/blog/web-development/freja-21-released