Media

Marc has been interviewed and quoted in a wide range of social media, podcasts, and national print publications on startups, venture capital, negotiating, public and private offerings, and mergers and acquisitions.


Social Media

Dealjammers: The EQ of M&A

TikTok Series

Explores key Morgenstern’s Maxims to become a better business negotiator:

  • “Learn to listen like a jam band musician, not like a lawyer.”
  • “Negotiation is Theater with Consequences and Results.”
  • “An Expectation Unarticulated is a Disappointment Guaranteed.”

Dealjammers: The Human Side of Buying and Selling Businesses

YouTube Series

5-part YouTube series. Morgenstern’s Maxims are presented through real-world negotiating and M&A stories and commentaries. Learn to become a Dealjammer. Negotiate with a flexible jam band philosophy, engage in listening to respond (not rebut), and persuade (not bludgeon). Win what you need, mindful that you don’t need to win everything you can see.

Read more Morgenstern’s Maxims featured in The Soul of the Deal


Select Podcasts

Startups: Riffing with Rick

Rick Tocquigny, Success Made to Last

Dealmaking as an Improvisational Art

Dealcast: M&A Tales Series

Author and Entrepreneur Marc Morgenstern on The Soul of the Deal

Living Justice, Living Leadership, Dean Lee Fisher, Cleveland State University Law School

The Future of Private Equity

CNBC Squawk Box

DealJamming with Marc Morgenstern

Defenders of Business Value with Ed Mysogland

The Psychology of Negotiations

Master Negotiators Live with Jean-Nicolas Reyt

Life lessons from The Soul of the Deal

Navigate Leadership with Kelly Byrnes

The #1 Aspect of Closing More Deals

Playbook with David Meltzer LIVE


Select Print Media

M&A and Venture Capital

Cost of Being Public

Wall Street Journal

Hostile Takeovers

Crain’s Cleveland Business

Secondary markets in private securities

Los Angeles Times

Interview with Marc H. Morgenstern

BookMarketingBuzz Blog

Meet the Invendor

Red Herring


Business and Finance

Groupon IPO – offering, accounting issues, and funky history

Chicago Sun Times and Bloomberg Business Week

Goldman Sachs/Facebook Deal

The New York Times

SEC’s Small Biz Proposals Criticized

CFO.com

The Hefty Costs of Compliance

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Some Private Firms Embrace Law’s Tough Accounting Standards

New York Times

New Investment – Banking Players Emerge in California’s Silicon Valley

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Electronic Superhighway Blocks Some Exits

American Banker

Morgenstern’s Maxims. “An expectation unarticulated is a disappointment guaranteed”

Morino, Mario. “Leap of Reason: Managing to outcomes in an Era of Scarcity”