Adjacent Ventures
These are Mike’s other initiatives. They are not subspaces — they stay as their own brands and URLs — but they are surfaced on the umbrella website’s “Adjacent ventures” strip and linked from the founder dossier.
The logic: a venture becomes a subspace when its audience overlaps almost entirely with the Vegas Crypto Group audience and its operating cadence benefits from shared wallet + identity. A venture stays adjacent when its audience is distinct (different demographic, different platform conventions) or it’s a low-touch side experiment Mike doesn’t want to actively re-platform.
The five adjacent ventures
Inform Empower
- What: Education + summits + virtual training in emerging tech. Mike’s longest-running educational vehicle alongside Vegas Crypto Group.
- Where: informempower.com (WordPress)
- Why adjacent: WordPress publishing flow + virtual summits + email-list-driven; doesn’t match the Clikkin community-platform shape, but is a primary inbound surface for new audience members.
- Surfacing on the umbrella: Adjacent-ventures strip card + link from Mike’s Founder dossier.
InNOutCrypto
- What: The Orange Rabbit merch line. T-shirts, hoodies, hats, stickers — all in Tiger Flame and Coral Glow.
- Why adjacent: Commerce infrastructure (Shopify or similar) — best run on its own checkout for now. Future state: Clikkin’s Store template could absorb it when that ships.
- Surfacing: Adjacent-ventures card. Featured drops can be cross-promoted from inside the Portal as Passport-exclusive early access.
SporeBaby
- What: XRP NFT + spore-themed commerce experiment.
- Why adjacent: A side experiment with a different audience (XRP community, not Vegas crypto crowd). Distinct enough that consolidating it under the umbrella would dilute both.
- Surfacing: Adjacent-ventures card with a “side project” caption.
Vegas Nexus
- What: Mini-documentary series produced by Mike, hosted on InformEmpower.
- Why adjacent: Content surface, not a community. Reads more like a YouTube channel than a Clikkin space.
- Surfacing: Adjacent-ventures card · Featured embed in the Founder dossier.
GoTripArt
- What: Co-founded travel-art venture (legacy).
- Why adjacent: Co-founder credit rather than active operator role; doesn’t pull the same audience as the umbrella.
- Surfacing: Adjacent-ventures card with a “co-founder” caption · listed under “credentials” in the Founder dossier.
Editorial rule for the umbrella website
The adjacent-ventures strip is smaller cards in a 5-column grid, with 2-letter monogram glyphs in Tiger Flame tiles until each venture provides a real logo. The visual subordination is intentional — the four subspaces are the primary IA, the adjacent ventures are secondary.
When Mike retires or expands a venture, we update this page first, then propagate to the umbrella site. This page is the source of truth.