BUILT IN CATEGORIES
WHERE THE MARKET
ANSWERS FAST.
Mike’s operating history informs the agency’s commercial judgment. These are founder and operator experiences—not invented agency-client case studies.
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SOCKO ENERGY /
BLISS BEVERAGE
Founder operating experience across beverage product development, packaging, promotions, partnerships, and retail execution.
Competitive consumer categories punish unclear positioning, weak products, and operational gaps quickly.
Co-founder and operator involved across concept, product, brand, partnership, and commercial work.
A recognizable brand does not remove the need for product quality, margin discipline, execution, and channel fit.
Product-to-market work, licensing decisions, partnership evaluation, packaging hierarchy, and retail pressure testing.
ORIGINAL THROWDOWN
FIGHTGEAR
Founder operating experience across combat-sports equipment, apparel, training products, events, partnerships, distribution, and category culture.
Culture-driven categories require product credibility, community relevance, and disciplined expansion.
Co-founder and operator working across products, partnerships, commercialization, and growth decisions.
A powerful identity must remain connected to the product, customer, economics, and operating system behind it.
Brand architecture, category positioning, partnership strategy, product-line logic, and expansion discipline.
HOSPITALITY +
EXPERIENTIAL CONCEPTS
Direct operating experience with concept development, staffing, events, customer behavior, experience design, marketing, and daily execution.
Hospitality exposes the difference between a concept people admire and an experience people return to.
Creator and operator involved in concept, promotion, staffing, events, customer experience, and execution.
Brand promises are tested in real time through service, atmosphere, operations, and repeat behavior.
Experience design, customer behavior, launch sequencing, community, and operating reality.
INTERNALLY DEVELOPED
BRANDS + VENTURES.
Current projects may include Mike-owned, affiliated, or internally developed concepts. They must never be mislabeled as agency clients.
Mike-owned or affiliated business being built, tested, operated, or held.
External engagement that may appear only with confirmed permission, scope, and outcomes.
Early-stage property or product hypothesis that is not represented as an operating company.
BRING THE REAL PROBLEM.
Explain what you are building, where it stands, what is not working, and which decision has to be made. The first conversation is a fit and pressure test—not a promise that every project moves forward.
Operator-led. Specialist-supported. No guaranteed outcomes, retailer access, fundraising, manufacturing, or regulatory approval.