Any Aspie/ASD entepreneurs or business owners here?

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As I am new to all this, I wonder what the rest of you is like. I own an online company, that I build including all systems but I have someone to take and make all the phone calls and go to meetings. I also love to run it, organise it and push new ideas, schemes etc.

What about you? And what is your business about?

I tried to do a translation service... no clients. If I ever do a business, it will either be consulting or overnight delivery. There are companies out there that would pay good money that you delivery 200kgs of packages over 800km in a country that rarely has speed limits on its freeways. I could say that I offer a basic price for sticking to the recommended speed and would do 160 or 170 km/h on the autobahn for like +50% or so in fares.

To make a business, you need to offer something that makes you stand out such as a pizza service that takes bitcoins or foreign currency or make a company that manufactures products deemed useful for the consumer such as a stove that can be plugged into the outlet of a car or so. If I had more luck in life, I could have been Elon Musk. however I didn't have much luck in life and only have ideas and optimism but no money and no degree.

You have to go where the money is. PERIOD
You exchange your time for somthing others are looking to exchange their money for. PERIOD
If there aren't people already looking for your idea, then they aren't going to find you. DUH

Owl, however it can be very difficult for Aspies to go where the money is. It makes more sense for an Aspie to do something he or she is good at and make that service or product innovative. Plus the issue I have found with entrepreneurs that have failed times over is that they are stuck with the "go where the money is" mentality. There is a lot more to entrepreneurship than the goal to just make money. It also requires correct management skill, ensuring employees are satisfied as happy workers are productive, ensuring that customers are satisfied, being financially stable.

The reason my try at an own business failed was that I literally had no startup money to do PR and I picked an area with too many rivals. So I couldn't do more PR than speak to people and it sort of sucks when there are 60 translators in a city of 99,000.

Now it is unlikely for me to do an own business because of health related issues.

If you go where there is no money, you will not make a living.
Work is only one third of your weekday: 40 out of 120 hours and zero of your 60 weekend hours. 22% or about 1/5 of your week.
When you have enough money - you have the capacity to be everything you want to be.
If you are struggling, you can only struggle, nothing else - that's all you can see.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Since you can write this blog there are no "health related issues" stopping you from working.

You don't need startup money to do PR. Here is your PR, you are telling the whole world about yourself.
Go to Blogs where people have money and will pay you to help them. It is all about helping others in exchange for Money. As you said "ensuring that customers are satisfied" is right, and that is all that matters.

I totally agree with you and it is called Unique Selling Point (USP) if I am not mistaken. I think many businesses do not have USP defined very well, for example a new pizza outlet offering the same as every other pizza place and yet making business, because of high demand for pizza.


As far as I know, Elon worked hard for his success all life. I am not sure as to what startup money he had, but you will likely find that most successful business people owe their success to their personality, stubbornness, ambition, motivation and lack of fear of failure.


Only if you also have money for startup, otherwise you are going to be eaten alive by already established competition.

From my experience, a successful business must have, among others, a "brain" and a "face". While generally we make a good "brain" - visionaries, creators, builders, planners, organisers etc. - to succeed we need to buddy up with someone who will be the "face" - hold meetings, meet new business partners, deal with customers, deal with employees, deal with people and work their magic to tighten social connections. Kind of a magician

1) You don't need money for a startup.
2) You don't want a Unique-Selling-Point (USP)
Agee that in some businesses you need "to buddy up with someone who will be the "face".

You are just trying to earn a living, USP are for those who are willing to take a 100 failures for that one big hit. A USP means its: not in demand, not popular and not currently needed. You only need to be slightly better than the nearest successful venture. People can only take small incremental changes from what they know.

No money startups:
EXAMPLES:
1) Work with an existing business to help improve them.
a) Sell things you make hanging on the walls of eating places. Need to be popular/trendy, not USP.
b) Contract to wash their strip-mall windows every week, then hire students to work for you.
c) Contract to update all their social media every two weeks, then hire students to work for you. THIS IS BIG, right now, they know they need it but don't know how!

2) For home owners (go to rich neighborhoods):
a) Rake leaves, shovel snow, tend gardens (they get $50 per week for one hours in Big cities for gardening!)
b) Wash windows, cars (detailing get $100 in big cities)
c) Tend to pets
( ... then hire students, unemployables such as millennials or Aspies to work for you.)

Find a need and offer to provide it. Promise "Good", deliver "Better", exceed their expectations.

I am a reseller on Bonanza and eBid. I used to sell on ebay, but have since moved due to a number of things that are a rant for another day. I don't just find a handful of things around the house every so often, I will go out and buy stuff specifically to resell for profit. I have a large inventory of items (guessing close to 2,000 individual items), and a large stockpile of packing supplies, which 90% of it I got for free. The only stuff I've paid for are my mailers and the tapes I use. The stuff I sell is either directly or indirectly related to something I collect or something I am interested in. Hence, the name of my business is called All My Collections.

Since I am away at school, my Bonanza booth and eBid stores are on vacation, so no money coming in right now. I have been doing this since July 2012, and I have put somewhere around $1800-$2100 into my savings. It is not enough to live off of, but it is a nice extra source of income for a University student. I am working on and do hope to build my business up enough that I could conceivably live off it if I wanted or needed.

Nice idea AspergersActor8693!!

There door flyers all the time for people offering to take our junk away for free. Some only want ebay type stuff.
Now I know how they afford those nice trucks they are driving! I would say by looking all of them are ASD

I have my sources for inventory, and I know where to look, so that helps. I don't use ebay anymore, and I don't go to people looking for inventory, they are the ones that come to me to sell their goods (for a percentage of course) .

To really make consistent money at reselling, it takes a lot more work and effort than people realize. If you really want to succeed, you have to write VERY accurate descriptions, take GREAT photos, pack things well, know how to price items, know what is desirable, accept returns, and answer any buyer questions in a timely manner. This past summer I spent many hours listing new items and having the listings meet my standards. It is a lot of work, but a worthwhile one and an enjoyable one as well.

I've answered some posts by people on WP who were interested in doing this, so I made a topic about being a reseller, but no one posted on it. Maybe I should repost it here instead of RD. I am more than happy to share my knowledge to anyone who is interested.

What do you mean by that?

Well, right now I periodically sell on eBay. But, I want to transition into starting my own art website in the near future. I just gotta save up enough money to run it on my own domain website. I know it can be done. I just need lots of guidance in creating a steady income for myself.

Domain costs are something like 5$ a year, depending on the extension. Hosting servers are not much more expensive and the website you get for free from Wordpress. If you are on the budget you can build it yourself - it is like building blocks. This is what I did 2 years ago while I was studying, then dropped a few adverts around to direct people to it and it took off. Even when you don;t have money to invest, you still have time, focus and strong drive

Thanks for the advice man. Just one more question: can you give me a list of companies with cheap domains? I really
want to promote my art website on social media like Facebook, Twitter, etc.