It's hard for us to comment who will make the best CEO because we don't know you or your partner. You will know the person best to lead the company to success; talk it over with your business partner, with friends, and let it ride until the natural answer emerges.
I have two comments for you, though: 1) Be prepared -- right now -- to give up the credit. If you're in this for the fame, get out now because sadly it's unlikely to succeed. If you're happy to see your idea taken to its successful fruition but no mention of your name, then you've got a good base to start from. Love your product and your customers, not yourself.
2) The CEO gets ultimate say on how the company runs. However, you will both be assigned duties in your managerial roles; make sure those roles are clearly assigned. Who handles the budget? Who handles the tecnology direction? Who handles the marketing direction? Under normal circumstances, that person will be solely responsible for their departments.
It's only in an exceptional circumstance that the CEO should veto any decision, and there should be some serious discussion if it happens. Make sure the CEO is not a micromanager!
The company I work for purchased two ASUS M8000s about a year and a half ago; Pentium III 500MHz, 128MB RAM, XGA TFT LCD. As a piece of hardware, they've performed really well, running Win98, Win2k and Linux with no issues at all. However we've had a lot of problems with the manufacturing of the device.
Both laptops have had problems with the screen flickering about a year after we bought them. Seems like the connection between the laptop base and the LCD screen is not all that great. Moving the laptop lid up and down changes the brightness, so you have to now fiddle with them until they show up at their full brightness. One of the laptops had the entire screen portion replaced, however six months after it's started to flicker again: sounds like a design fault to me.
The plastic that encases the screen on one of the laptops has split at the bottom right-hand corner where the screen meets the base. When you open and close the laptop lid, a lot of strain gets put on this area and after one and a half years, it wasn't up to it. The left-hand side is showing signs of wear as well.
Finally, on both laptops, we've had problems with the computer freezing for no apparent reason. Seems like the chips on board the motherboard come loose very easily, and all that is required is for someone to open it up and wriggle them back into their sockets, because the freezing stops after that's done.
So all in all, they're a great laptop for the first year of operation, then Bad Stuff starts happening, at least in the M8000s. Be sure to get an extended warranty if you're going to go for an ASUS.
I'm biased because one of my workmates made this site, but check out DanceNZ, a site aimed at the dance music scene in New Zealand. He's gone to a lot of trouble to provide a really strange but effective interface for navigating the site, really squeezing out all the juice that Flash technology has to offer.
IMO multimedia on the web has come a way in the past few years but there still is a lot of room for improvement, even with today's technology. It's good to see courses that show multimedia appreciation, but to me it's a matter of getting the graphic artists understanding the technology that's available for them so they can push it as far as it goes. Designers need a bit of the coder inside them.
I'm only 24 and I wouldn't want to hire someone straight out of college if someone with real experience was available.
(I was given that choice once, and I did choose the person straight out of college but that was because the other option I was given was someone who had been a self taught/self employed programmer, and I'm a bit wary of that)
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It's hard for us to comment who will make the best CEO because we don't know you or your partner. You will know the person best to lead the company to success; talk it over with your business partner, with friends, and let it ride until the natural answer emerges.
I have two comments for you, though:
1) Be prepared -- right now -- to give up the credit. If you're in this for the fame, get out now because sadly it's unlikely to succeed. If you're happy to see your idea taken to its successful fruition but no mention of your name, then you've got a good base to start from. Love your product and your customers, not yourself.
2) The CEO gets ultimate say on how the company runs. However, you will both be assigned duties in your managerial roles; make sure those roles are clearly assigned. Who handles the budget? Who handles the tecnology direction? Who handles the marketing direction? Under normal circumstances, that person will be solely responsible for their departments.
It's only in an exceptional circumstance that the CEO should veto any decision, and there should be some serious discussion if it happens. Make sure the CEO is not a micromanager!
Best of luck with your business.
The company I work for purchased two ASUS M8000s about a year and a half ago; Pentium III 500MHz, 128MB RAM, XGA TFT LCD. As a piece of hardware, they've performed really well, running Win98, Win2k and Linux with no issues at all. However we've had a lot of problems with the manufacturing of the device.
Both laptops have had problems with the screen flickering about a year after we bought them. Seems like the connection between the laptop base and the LCD screen is not all that great. Moving the laptop lid up and down changes the brightness, so you have to now fiddle with them until they show up at their full brightness. One of the laptops had the entire screen portion replaced, however six months after it's started to flicker again: sounds like a design fault to me.
The plastic that encases the screen on one of the laptops has split at the bottom right-hand corner where the screen meets the base. When you open and close the laptop lid, a lot of strain gets put on this area and after one and a half years, it wasn't up to it. The left-hand side is showing signs of wear as well.
Finally, on both laptops, we've had problems with the computer freezing for no apparent reason. Seems like the chips on board the motherboard come loose very easily, and all that is required is for someone to open it up and wriggle them back into their sockets, because the freezing stops after that's done.
So all in all, they're a great laptop for the first year of operation, then Bad Stuff starts happening, at least in the M8000s. Be sure to get an extended warranty if you're going to go for an ASUS.
I'm biased because one of my workmates made this site, but check out DanceNZ, a site aimed at the dance music scene in New Zealand. He's gone to a lot of trouble to provide a really strange but effective interface for navigating the site, really squeezing out all the juice that Flash technology has to offer.
IMO multimedia on the web has come a way in the past few years but there still is a lot of room for improvement, even with today's technology. It's good to see courses that show multimedia appreciation, but to me it's a matter of getting the graphic artists understanding the technology that's available for them so they can push it as far as it goes. Designers need a bit of the coder inside them.
I'm only 24 and I wouldn't want to hire someone straight out of college if someone with real experience was available.
(I was given that choice once, and I did choose the person straight out of college but that was because the other option I was given was someone who had been a self taught/self employed programmer, and I'm a bit wary of that)