Starting your own business

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After I realized that NOBODY will hire me because I'm an aspie and haven't worked before because of it, I decided to start my own business. I'm in the final stages now; I've worked on it off and on since July 2007. It is a website with a unique idea that nobody else is doing. (Therefore, I can't tell you what it is until it's launched, because if I did I would have the idea stolen.) Does anybody else run their own business? Advice? It seems like a really good way to go since I tried Department of Rehabilitation and ended up with what another poster called a job for ret*ds. I tried college and trade school; no luck. (I have an associate's degree and a computer technician's certification, but no job.) I even let my mother, who works for a school district in the ghetto, set me up as a paraeducator (teacher's assistant in special education classes). The teachers HATED me, or more specifically hated my Asperger's, so I quit. So I'm starting a business. Hopefully this will work out.

Good luck. I had an eBay store for a few years until USPS kept raising postage and eBay kept raising fees. It worked out great because I never had to deal with ppl face to face or use the phone.

Yeah, Im in the process of making a transition to the business quadrant. I find it overwhelming but Im joining a team on it the subject so well see. I guess for my personality Is more of an active investor. I recommend reading Rich Dad Poor Dad for thoughts of the business mentality.

What, nobody wants to start their own business, but wants to instead complain about how nobody is hiring them for years on end? Employers don't like aspies. People don't want to work with us. So, work for yourself. Logical? No?

I am trying to start my own business selling my crafts but am not business minded and make stuff that is evedently to weird to be popular and takes me to long to create to be easily marketed for the quick dollar. I haven't given up, just trying to learn from what I have done wrong. I still wrok a full-time job that I hate and am looking for a new job but hope that some day the seeling market will be better and I will have learned enough about marketing myself to make some sales. RIght now I am stuck selling on a web site that has 1,00,000 other sellers and it is hard to get noticed. I should be going to craft sales and net-working but find the socializing to be very intimidating. This "socializing" part is worse then going to job interviews.

Great choice.

I have some advices thou. Sometimes a very good idea fails, and that's because It may be well ahead of Its time or because nobody wants to spent in that great idea or It can be done for free.

I encourage to do so but, If you fail.. try to make up another business (It could be online also) where there's competition but you can excel and outsmart your competition. If there are lots of clients then there is a lot of money.
The more people you help, the more money you earn. Creativity is a secondary step.

Just think about what people wants and thinks, and that's your rule.

Be patient and have lots of perseverance. I know that is not easy for us.
Be trustworthy with your sales. That will come naturally.

Do not listen to Robert Kiyosaki. What happened with real state investments?
Have a business plan.
Visit www.entrepreneur.com has some great ideas for free.
Have lawyers and accountants advices.
Save all the money you can and more.
Don't be afraid of hiring other people to do the job we cannot do.

Good luck!

Thanks BRI...I do have many ideas of things I might market better then my current ones. I was mostly working on things that I enjoy making rather then what I thought would sell. I do think the US economy is in the crapper right now and it's not a great market for "unnecissaries" people are just trying to keep their houses and afford milk and gas and pay for their medical insurence and their kids schooling. I do think the things I make would sell better if people could see and touch them rather then a picture on-line but I have to over-come my people shyness.

Perserverance is something I have I'm like "The Little Engine Who Could"...it may take me awhile to get up the hill but I just put my head down and keep chugging away, (hoping the rails don't lead over a cliff).