Entrepreneurs on Fire

Danny Polise co-founded Penelope Bourbon, which launched in 2018. Today, .e serves as Vice President of Product and Master Blender.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. You don't need to be an expert, curiosity, action, and willingness to learn can create an advantage.
2. Don't wait for the full path, take the next step and solve the next problem.
3. Scale by protecting what makes your brand unique while staying flexible elsewhere.
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David Cristello went from a broke social worker to the sole, non-technical founder of Jetpack Workflow, a multi-million-dollar software platform that helps accounting firms manage recurring deadlines.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Find the pain before building, interview potential customers to uncover recurring problems.
2. Get paid before you build, pre-sell to validate demand and reduce risk.
3. Turn early customers into marketing assets through direct outreach, content, and case studies.
Join the waitlist for the 12-week program launching in January 2027 to learn how to find painful problems, validate demand, and pre-sell software products before building them - The Foundation
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HighLevel - The ultimate all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies. Learn more at HighLevelFire.com.
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Dane Maxwell is the founder and CEO of Paperless Pipeline, a 17-year bootstrapped SaaS company, and creator of The Foundation, where he's mentored 2,000+ founders to start businesses from nothing.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Success comes from solving real problems, listen to customers and find ways to help.
2. Get paid before you build, validate demand by pre-selling the smallest viable solution.
3. Build confidence through action, explore new industries, uncover opportunities, and follow through.
Join the waitlist for the 12-week cohort launching in January 2027. Learn how to identify painful customer problems, pre-sell solutions, and build a recurring-revenue software business without an idea, coding experience, or a technical co-founder - The Foundation
Sponsors
HighLevel - The ultimate all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies. Learn more at HighLevelFire.com.
The Foundation - The Foundation has coached 2,000 plus students to find painful problems and turn them into software businesses. Their 12-week cohort takes you from no idea or software experience to finding a real problem and preselling the solution. The next cohort launches January 2027. Join the waitlist at TheFoundation.com.

Tom Szaky is founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global recycling leader operating in 20 countries, working with major brands and retailers to recycle complex waste streams. He also created Loop, a circular reuse platform.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Treat failure like tuition, learn from it, adapt, and avoid repeating the same mistakes.
2. Recycling difficult materials requires a business model that makes collection and processing financially viable.
3. Sustainability scales when it creates real business value and remains commercially viable.
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Sponsors
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David Tyler is Director of Data and AI at Trofeo and author of The AI War. He advises executives on enterprise AI governance and has spent thirty years in enterprise technology.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. In the age of AI, output is the price of admission, judgment is the competitive edge.
2. Your AI moat is your private data, instincts, innovation, and relationships.
3. Don't automate everything, use AI where it helps while keeping final judgment and accountability.
Grab a copy of David's book available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle - The AI War: What Is Still Yours in the Age of AI
Sponsors
HighLevel - The ultimate all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies. Learn more at HighLevelFire.com.
The Foundation - The Foundation has coached 2,000 plus students to find painful problems and turn them into software businesses. Their 12-week cohort takes you from no idea or software experience to finding a real problem and preselling the solution. The next cohort launches January 2027. Join the waitlist at TheFoundation.com.