Wealth isn’t luck and it isn’t a trust fund. It’s a sequence of moves that compound. This is the sequence.
Start — Get legit
Become a real, separate business — entity, EIN, structure, and clean identity. Nothing else works until you exist to a lender.
Build — Get fundable
Build a business credit file of your own — banking, books, D-U-N-S, and the tradeline ladder — until underwriters can verify you in seconds.
Scale — Get funded & grow
Climb from vendor accounts to real capital, gated on revenue, and put that capital to work the right way.
Lead — Protect & multiply
Keep more of what you make, protect what you build, and pull the next founder up behind you.
Why order beats effort
You can work incredibly hard and still get denied if you climb out of order — applying for a bank line before you have credit, chasing funding before you have revenue. The Method keeps you moving up rungs that actually hold weight, so your effort compounds instead of getting wasted.
Most people start somewhere in the middle with a few things done and a few things missing. There’s no wrong starting point — only the next right move.