{"id":1072,"date":"2018-05-23T19:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2018-05-31T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:34:07","slug":"ken-marlin-former-marine-founded-a-new-investment-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/ken-marlin-former-marine-founded-a-new-investment-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Marlin, How A Former Marine Founded A New Kind Of Investment Bank &#8211; From The Ground Up (Ep. 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RkgslZzxNGI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On episode 3 of &#8220;From The Ground Up,&#8221; I sit down with Ken Marlin\u2014Founder and Managing Partner of Marlin &amp; Associates, an independent international investment bank and corporate advisory firm based in New York City, with offices in Washington, DC, and Toronto. For more than 15 years, M&amp;A has been the mergers and acquisition experts for companies offering business software, financial technology, data, analytics and related services. In this interview, Ken and I discuss a variety of topics, such as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; How Ken\u2019s Marine Corps training connects to his entrepreneurial career<br \/>\n&#8211; Founding an investment bank during the Great Recession<br \/>\n&#8211; \u201cWar Stories\u201d from Ken\u2019s early days as a startup founder<br \/>\n&#8211; How Ken\u2019s unusual approach to creating an investment bank impacted the success of his company<br \/>\n&#8211; And more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kenmarlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn more about Ken Marlin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marlinllc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn more about Marlin &amp; Associates.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Marine-Corps-Way-Wall-Street\/dp\/1250066662\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Ken\u2019s book, <em>The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street: 11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rf7nHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn more about topics like this in my latest book, <em>Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies (2018)<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About &#8220;From The Ground Up&#8221;:<br \/>\nHosted by entrepreneur, author and Princeton Professor Derek Lidow, <em>From The Ground Up<\/em> uncovers the not-so-secret strategies of self-made business owners. Featuring conversations with entrepreneurs who built influential brands and companies, Derek weaves a narrative journey about how successful business are created without having to shoot for the moon or take on unnecessary risk; how the greatest companies are the ones that are built, from the ground up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On episode 3 of &#8220;From The Ground Up,&#8221; I sit down with Ken Marlin\u2014Founder and Managing Partner of Marlin &amp; Associates, an independent international investment bank and corporate advisory firm based in New York City, with offices in Washington, DC, and Toronto. For more than 15 years, M&amp;A has been the mergers and acquisition experts&hellip;","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}