FYSO Friday

About this event:

Join us for lunch and figuring your sh*t out through intentional ACTION.

"FYSO" - which stands for Figure your sh*t out - are founder-focused events and resources focused on helping you figure your sh*t out.

We're excited to be back to Durham in partnership with echo.

FYSO Friday is a new engagement-focused event that will make space to have an unpretentious, interactive experience where you meet and connect with other entrepreneurs tackling the same challenges you are.

What's the goal?

Let's explore how we - a community of entrepreneurs - can create an ecosystem that works for us, leveraging our own talents, skills, and knowledge to harness the power of community to remove barriers and building thriving businesses.

🥘 We’ll have Chef Rue provide lunch, mimosas, and you’ll tackle two of the most important strategic to-do’s to set your business up for success in 2025. 🎉

All entrepreneurs are welcome - from early-stage to serial entrepreneurs.

If you're a creator, initiator, side hustler, innovator, developer, designer, artist, author, small business owner, maker, creative, restauranteur, product creator, or any other term that describes someone who brings ideas to life - then this event is for you.

The focus of the workshop is to ensure you’ll walk away with two key deliverables:

🙌 Your big picture strategic goals simplified on 1-page thanks to a facilitated session by Oz Merchant.

In an interactive workshop, we’ll help you map out your key goals and think through where you want your business to go in 2025 plus the steps it’ll take to get there!

🙌 Melissa Wood, MBA, will be helping walk us through the process and answering questions so we can tackle this super important task (i.e. figure our sh*t out), together, with the guidance of a true expert.

If you haven’t registered your Beneficial Owner Information Report (BOIR), which is for the Financial Crimes Network (FinCEN) - it REQUIRED to be completed by January 1st, 2025. Failure to file can result in penalties of up to $500 PER DAY (!!!!!!!!!!!!).

💻 Be sure to bring your laptop and get ready to tackle these two major tasks.

Other Details:

All profits from this event will go to support echo, a 501c3 non-profit that transforms lives through entrepreneurship. Traditionally echo offers cohort-based training and workshops for adult entrepreneurs and small business owners with ongoing support through 1:1 mentoring along with year-round programming for teens and young adults interested in social innovation, entrepreneurship, and startups.

echo is exploring building the foundation for our new program -Entrepreneurs Building Entrepreneurs - a collective of our own network for shared resources, talents, knowledge and skills. As entrepreneurs, can WE add to the larger ecosystem and formalize pathways of support that work for us?

Is the ticket price cost prohibitive?

Let us know by emailing hello@fysoaccelerator.com. We have a limited number of scholarship tickets available and also we're giving all volunteers free tickets to attend. Since echo is a non-profit, it's especially important to us to make sure our events are accessible.

PS - Based on your feedback - if you would like more space to "figure your sh*t out" with other entrepreneurs, we'll likely make different topic-focused FYSO Friday events happen either monthly or quarterly. 🙌