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Michael Mindes Started His Own Board Game Publishing Company!

About Michael Mindes
In the winter of 2004, Michael decided to start publishing board games; he felt
this would be a good way to channel his creative energies, work within his
passion, and make a living. His is wife was 100% in support of him and he even
had an extraordinarily good game to publish in Gheos, which was later published
by Z-Man Games. Yet, as often happens with grand plans and schemes, life came
along and changed his course in a fantastic way – his wife was pregnant with
their first child. This was even more exciting than publishing board games.
However, it threw a financial security monkey wrench into the publishing plan.
Both he and his wife wanted her to be able to stay home with their children –
that meant he needed a stable job with good income potential.
Michael knew he could have the option to work with his father providing
financial advice. He know he would be good at it, enjoy it, and gain fulfillment
through planning for and protecting lifestyles in retirement. His wife would be
able to stay at home, and they could live a comfortable life with relative
financial stability. On the other hand, he REALLY wanted to publish board
games!
Although he chose this route as his family grew – and it proved to be the right
financial decision at the time – Michael’s heart was still set upon the business
world surrounding games. Finally, in March of 2009, he decided to give
publishing a chance – in his extra time outside of being married, having two
kids, full-time employment, and building a house…Tasty Minstrel Games was born.
As of October 17th, 2016, TMG has receiving $2,546,682 in funds from Backers on
Kickstarter from 26 individual hobby board gaming projects. Michael has grown
his side passion into a multi-award-winning publisher company of hobby board
game and a multi-million dollar business.
Connect with Michael Mindes
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