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I just crossed $20,000 revenue within 10 months of launch, here’s what I learned.
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I just crossed $20,000 revenue within 10 months of launch, here’s what I learned.

Honestly, I think I could’ve saved myself months of going down the wrong paths if i understood this before i started.

1. Validate your idea before you start building. I got lucky that the problem was one i had myself.
2. don’t chase investors. focus on getting users instead and the rest sorts itself out. bootstrapped is completely fine.
3. talk to your users constantly. it’s the fastest way to know what’s working and where basically all my good ideas came from.
4. inspiration is the design key when you’re new. don’t build your landing page from scratch, copy sections from tools you love and make them your own.
5. post online daily. reddit, x, linkedin, tiktok, whatever suits your audience. For me, it’s mostly reddit since that’s where my users are.
6. Solve your own problem and let that decide if you’re b2b or b2c. i built leadradar because i was the one wasting an hour a day digging through reddit.
7. i’m bootstrapped and highly recommend it. Keep the 9-5 until you’ve got 1-2 years of runway (living cheap), then go all in.
8. you earn the right to paid ads by getting organic to work first. i’m still 100% organic. you’ll burn thousands just learning how ads work.
9. define your most important metrics and track them. they should be the pillars that guide every decision.
10. offer some sort of free trial at the start. controversial maybe, but the feedback and testimonials i got from it were worth way more than the “lost” revenue.
11. the first few minutes of your app are a promise: this will help you hit your goal. put a lot of effort into the beginning to convert more people.
12. have an mvp mindset with everything. ship the minimal version asap, then use feedback to improve it.
13. just because someone else has done it doesn’t mean you can’t compete. you have no idea how well they’re actually executing.
14. discipline over motivation. no one’s holding a solo founder accountable, so build systems that force consistency.
15. if you’re not passionate about what you’re building, the early months with no results will break you.
16. good testimonials increase the perceived value of your product. collect them relentlessly.
17. marketing is constant experimentation to learn what works. speed it up by drawing on what works for similar products.
18. getting your first paying customers is the hardest part by far. do things that don’t scale to get them.
19. building a good product comes down to obsessing over what your users actually want.
20. track where people drop off. i pipe everything into posthog and let it (plus claude) show me exactly where i’m losing users.

the hardest part is the start, but knowing these things really helps get through it. keep pushing, keep working hard, and stay disciplined and consistent.

Before saying you have ADD: put your phone in another room, turn off notifications, plug your ears, make a list, then work on the list.

You focus by removing everything but the work, not adding things.

Give yourself a chance before you say you have a disorder.

If the words money and power bother you, you’ll never get them.

They’re neither good or bad.

They can build hospitals or fund terrorism.

But if you want to do big shit, you’re gonna need a lot of both.

Who you sell to matters as much (or more than) the value you provide:

If you help a billionaire lose weight you can charge 100x more than gen pop.

Because in a very real way, that more narrowly defined market values the solution at a higher dollar amount.

ModelCentric, LLC was founded May 12, in Ohio, by Casey Myers. ModelCentric plans to offer types of AI integration that actually makes companies more profitable. ModelCentric also offers more conventional information technology development and consultation, including development of websites, databases and reports.

We’re all addicted to the same thing: reward.

The only difference is what we get it from and where it leads us.

Business expert ranks what business to start in 2026

How to beat a bigger competitor:
Talk to customers more than they do.

He who is closest to the customer wins.

As silly as this sounds – almost no one does it:

If you’re trying to achieve something, the first step is having a way to measure progress.

And the more ways you measure, the more ways you can win.

So start there, then don’t stop winning.

Before saying you have ADD: put your phone in another room, turn off notifications, plug your ears, make a list, then work on the list.

You focus by removing everything but the work, not adding things.

Give yourself a chance before you say you have a disorder.

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If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $250,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below.

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: “Gym Launch” does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit.
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.
34 yrs old: I became co-owner of https://Skool.com, which is a platform for people to build communities online, making a living doing what they love, with people like them.
36 yrs old: I did a $106M book launch selling 3.6M copies of my $100M Money Models book, in 72 hours, breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money – not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

DISCLOSURE
Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary.
Copyright © 2026.

Download your free scaling roadmap here: https://www.acquisition.com/roadmap-yta508

If you’re new to my channel, my name is Alex Hormozi. I’m the founder and managing partner of Acquisition.com. It’s a family office, which is just a formal way of saying we invest our own money into companies. Our 10 portfolio companies bring in over $250,000,000+ per year. Our ownership stake varies between 20% and 100% of them. Given this is a YT channel, and anyone can claim anything, I’ll give you some stuff you can google to verify below.

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: “Gym Launch” does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
31 yrs old: Started our family office Acquisition.com. We invest and scale companies using the $42M in distributions we had taken + the cash from the $46.2M exit.
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.
34 yrs old: I became co-owner of https://Skool.com, which is a platform for people to build communities online, making a living doing what they love, with people like them.
36 yrs old: I did a $106M book launch selling 3.6M copies of my $100M Money Models book, in 72 hours, breaking the Guinness world record for the fastest selling non-fiction book of all time.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money – not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

DISCLOSURE
Information shared here is for educational purposes only. Individuals and business owners should evaluate their own business strategies, and identify any potential risks. The information shared here is not a guarantee of success. Your results may vary.
Copyright © 2026.

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Trying to be happy is what makes you sad.

You don’t get over sadness by striving for the opposite, but by ceasing to label your emotional state as good or bad in either direction.

#fvckhappiness became my mantra and released me my self judgment.

I am. That is enough.

Can you guess the AI tools?

If I could tell my 22-year-old self one thing about sales: Stop trying to convince people who can’t afford it. A broke person who says yes is worse than a rich person who says no.

If you want to get money, go where the money is.

As silly as this sounds – almost no one does it:

If you’re trying to achieve something, the first step is having a way to measure progress.

And the more ways you measure, the more ways you can win.

So start there, then don’t stop winning.

If you have no money, you should have no shame.

Knock.
Call.
Email.
Text.
DM.
Ask.

Life-changing doors don’t open themselves.

Cut this one thing out if you want to be successful