If you are serious about starting a company the absolute first thing you must do is a SWOT Diagram (Strengths Weakness Opportunities and Threats) and be very realistic about it.
Work out what your competitive edge is, this is extremely important in defining to the consumer what you do, why you do it and why they should be using your service over other similar companies services.
If all signs point to go and you get to the buying plant stage, don't over capitalise it is an absolute killer of new and small companies, you can always buy the best and greatest gear when you are established. But this doesn't mean buy cheap crappy stuff either, set a realistic target and stick to it because you can easily upgrade plant but it makes thing very hard if you have to downgrade. Also good quality equipment will last longer, and become more cost effective.
Personnally I would be starting off with:
- 20" iMac, 2 GB RAM and 500GB HDD
- I don't mean to over generalise but a camera is a camera but still aim for one with 3CCD (the Sony, JVC and Canon are pretty good)
- Final Cut Studio (FCP, DVD Studio, Soundtrack, Motion), seriously iLife is good but it's not pro.
- PhotoShop or GIMP (http://www.gimp.org)
Work out what your competitive edge is, this is extremely important in defining to the consumer what you do, why you do it and why they should be using your service over other similar companies services.
If all signs point to go and you get to the buying plant stage, don't over capitalise it is an absolute killer of new and small companies, you can always buy the best and greatest gear when you are established. But this doesn't mean buy cheap crappy stuff either, set a realistic target and stick to it because you can easily upgrade plant but it makes thing very hard if you have to downgrade. Also good quality equipment will last longer, and become more cost effective.
Personnally I would be starting off with:
- 20" iMac, 2 GB RAM and 500GB HDD
- I don't mean to over generalise but a camera is a camera but still aim for one with 3CCD (the Sony, JVC and Canon are pretty good)
- Final Cut Studio (FCP, DVD Studio, Soundtrack, Motion), seriously iLife is good but it's not pro.
- PhotoShop or GIMP (http://www.gimp.org)