AS specific investment fund?

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So, being new to this whole Aspie thing, I've been doing a shed load of research (new special interest *ahem*) and it seems to me that there are some amazing Aspies both past and present. Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Michael Burry etc....

Does anyone know of an investment fund that finances Aspies specifically or seek out Aspies who have ideas?

I'm not aware of any, but I haven't looked. If you can get into Mensa, they have some research groups I've heard, and the McArthur Fellows program once rewarded a fellow origami artist with the grant for $50,000 for his one-cut theory.

Interesting. I've been googling it for an hour after watching a documentary on Benjamin Franklin and haven't found any although the banks seem to love preaching the virtues of Aspies.

It would seem like a worthwhile fund

I'd be careful regarding banks handling investments. Find a good investment manager (and make sure you check whoever you select out 20 different ways to Sunday.

Doesn't necessarily need to be a bank fund. Could be a private investor, angel or VC fund?

The existance of an Aspie Fund might require Aspie projects to fund.

It doesn't matter. I'd still talk to an investment manager.

I'm not sure I understand the above post.

Ditto

I'd bet a lot of the quant funds have aspies on staff or are run by aspies.

Finance and investments in general is my SI, by the way. Feel free to PM me about it and I can data dump if you like.

I've been thinking about this very thing recently and have been thinking about what it would take to put something like this together. It really depends on what sorts of things people with AS are doing, the potential market for their SI, and what sort of support they need. I've been thinking that an investment fund cum incubator could be successful and attract interest. My problem is that I'm horrible at promoting my ideas, even though I'm years ahead of everyone else, so an incubator like I describe would be ideal.

While not AS specific, there are more and more tech-incubator investor companies opening up in almost every major city. If you're a technical aspie, submit your application/plan to one or more of these. Chances are there are a lot of AS ideas going through these places, considering the engineering & technical expertise required and the high percentage of aspies in science/math/computing etc. I don't see a reason for an AS specific one. If your idea is commercially viable and lucrative enough, someone will finance it in order to make money from it themselves. Maybe you just need to find an industry specific investor?



Also, I don't think your original post was very well worded. You're looking for an investor/grant/venture capitalist, not an investment.

Unrelated tidbit: I opened a fake stock market account on investopedia.org 3-4 months ago. As of last week when I checked, my Canadian stock pics are returning 6.69% effective.. not terrible, but not awesome either.. but my American stock pics are returning 24.16% eff. Too bad it's not real money. Ah well, some day in the future I'll have the capital to invest for real and create my own Aspie investment in myself fund.

Oddly, I am incredibly gifted at marketing and networking. I have no problem with business relationships; mainly because business relationships don't follow the social norms of personal relationships. Just don't ask me to approach a girl at a bar, ha!

I am told that I would make an incredible investment banker. I just can't deal with the stress of being an "eat what you kill" type of employee, with the pressures that come with that...

back on topic: Giving a truly gifted person the green light (and funding, support, etc) to proceed on their project with the intention of commercializing it is incredibly interesting. A VC fund for gifted individuals? sign me up.

I think what would be useful is cataloguing the types of special interests people have. Then it would be easier to identify which ones have market potential. I thimk any person with AS would be thrilled to be paid to pursue their special interest (I know I would). It just takes someone with business savvy to be able to capitalize on it. I think an agency model similar to professional athletes would be appropriate for this model.

That.....is a good, no.....VERY good idea.

Where's our website and/or database designers?

A person with a special interest of cataloging auto headlight shapes is not something worth funding, but a tech aspie who wants to build chip boards all day is certainly viable. I think right at first glance a lot of work could be saved by creating a simple flow chart of viable and not viable interests