Sponsorship / funding for aspergers self starter businesses

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High Functioning Autism or Aspies have quiet a reputation for thinking out of the box, being innovative, being studious and being able to work on their own.

Now, where this may not be the best qualities to do run of the norm jobs such as working in an office that lacks personality or individualism, where their is no room for individualism and innovation.

These exact qualities that make aspies incompatible for working in many run of the mill normal jobs may actually make apies the ideal candidates for other areas where their traits or skills may be best utilized.

As aspies are often hard to employ in "normal" jobs, i was thinking that perhaps someone may have set up funding for people with high functioning autism to start their own businesses.

Anyone know?

I've never heard of a program like that. The inventive people I tried to emulate all advised getting a partner for the people end of the business. This is not easy. If you have a fabulous new product, the best salesmen will avoid you like the plague, lest their peers remark "Well, Anybody could sell That!" If you just want to have a one-man operation, start small and never borrow money. The customers will teach you what to invest in far better than your imagination of the business development. I always asked for 50% to start a job, to cover materials, and 50% when finished. It worked pretty well.

Some guys just look for problems that need a solution. When everybody was complaining about a coming week's layoff because a rolling mill had to be taken apart to re-polish a big roller, a guy I knew walked in, and offered to re-finish it in place. He had to lay under it in a tight space while the line was running, using a grinder overhead, but the pay was magnificent. Another time, two guys trying to start a computer consulting business heard about a new mainframe that had been delivered, but didn't run. The vendor had given up after 3 weeks, and so had the local programmers after another three. My friends just wanted to see what a multi-million dollar computer looked like, but they offered to try fixing it. To everyone's surprise, they got it going, and went to the office to settle up. They billed two hours for each guy, and were half way home before they realized they could have gotten much more.

I haven't heard of any.
Perhaps an opening could be created through the use of crowd funding websites.