David Teten

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    Advisor to the Investment Committee

    Catalytic Impact Foundation

    - Present 5 years 8 months

    Health

    The Catalytic Impact Foundation’s (CIF) mission is to accelerate innovation through support of disruptive and scalable companies, and to promote inclusive entrepreneurship. CIF does this by providing an evergreen, impact investment platform, backed by family offices.

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    Advisory Board Member

    Culture Shift Labs

    - Present 5 years 3 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    CSL is a diversity & innovation advisor, which among other initiatives runs Culture Shifting Summit, an annual invite-only event series for >400 Black & Latino tech investors and executives.

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    Security

    CSS - Community Security Service

    - Present 6 years 3 months

    Human Rights

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    Mentor

    Techstars

    - 4 years 3 months

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    Founder, Ambassadors at Large

    Innovators for Democracy

    - 9 months

    Politics

    "Innovators for Democracy" was previously named "Innovators for Biden", an arm of the 2020 Biden/Harris presidential election. In 2020, I became active in the group, despite my prior life as Chairman of the only Jewish Republican PAC in the US.

    I founded the "Ambassadors at Large" program, an initiative to recruit CEOs, investors, and other business leaders, to tap their superpowers to achieve our goals. We asked our Ambassadors: Do you have direct access to media? Does your business…

    "Innovators for Democracy" was previously named "Innovators for Biden", an arm of the 2020 Biden/Harris presidential election. In 2020, I became active in the group, despite my prior life as Chairman of the only Jewish Republican PAC in the US.

    I founded the "Ambassadors at Large" program, an initiative to recruit CEOs, investors, and other business leaders, to tap their superpowers to achieve our goals. We asked our Ambassadors: Do you have direct access to media? Does your business touch potential voters? Are you aware of information that the media should know? Everyone can vote and donate, but what can you uniquely do to help our cause?

Publications

  • To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear

    Wiley

    I started writing this book when I was 20 years old and am glad to finally publish! My coauthor and I based the book on interviews we conducted of graduates from U. Penn, Wharton, Yale, Harvard Business School, and other leading universities, asking them questions like, “What is the best thing you did to leverage your education? What would you have done differently? What is your advice for someone just starting your program?”

    We discuss in the book how to:
    - Thrive in a virtual…

    I started writing this book when I was 20 years old and am glad to finally publish! My coauthor and I based the book on interviews we conducted of graduates from U. Penn, Wharton, Yale, Harvard Business School, and other leading universities, asking them questions like, “What is the best thing you did to leverage your education? What would you have done differently? What is your advice for someone just starting your program?”

    We discuss in the book how to:
    - Thrive in a virtual learning environment (updated for COVID-19)
    - Earn money while learning, instead of paying high tuition
    - Access rarely tapped scholarships and grants
    - Kickstart your career via non-traditional pathways
    - Find learning opportunities and exclusive communities for ambitious people
    - Create the perfect resume
    - Present ideas effectively and persuasively
    - Write letters, proposals, and memos that set the right tone and get results
    - Maximize the first 30 days in a new job

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  • The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online

    AMACOM

    The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online is the first business book about how investors and senior executives can and should win clients, raise capital, find investments, and recruit talent, all virtually. We wrote this way before COVID-19, but it's even more relevant now. Published by American Management Association. Reviewed in Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, BusinessWeek, Kirkus Reviews. Excerpted in CNN.com.

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  • Contributed articles

    Teten.com (blog), Forbes (columnist), Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, PEHub, Palico, etc.

    - Co-wrote Institutional Investor’s April 2016 cover story, “Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted”. (See DisruptInvesting.com for more on our research project on the future of the asset management industry.)
    - Lead co-wrote "The Lower-Risk Startup: How Venture Capitalists Increase the Odds of Startup Success", the #1 most-read article for the year after we published it.
    - Lead co-wrote "Where Are the Deals? Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds’ Best Practices in…

    - Co-wrote Institutional Investor’s April 2016 cover story, “Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted”. (See DisruptInvesting.com for more on our research project on the future of the asset management industry.)
    - Lead co-wrote "The Lower-Risk Startup: How Venture Capitalists Increase the Odds of Startup Success", the #1 most-read article for the year after we published it.
    - Lead co-wrote "Where Are the Deals? Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds’ Best Practices in Sourcing New Investments", most-read article of all time for the Journal of Private Equity.

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Languages

  • English

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  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • Hebrew

    Limited working proficiency

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