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Founder Dialogues

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)

Cambridge, MA

Founder Dialogues

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FOUNDER DIALOGUES

Sponsored by: Founder Collective


Featuring: Mick Mountz

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KIVA Systems


Moderator: Eric Paley, Managing Partner, Founder Collective


Date: June 22, 2010

Location: Microsoft New England R&D Center

One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142

Time: 6pm – 8pm


Registration: Open to public.  Limited Seating Available. Please be sure to register early.


FOUNDER DIALOGUES

Founder Dialogues is a Cambridge-based public event series featuring successful founders.

Have you ever wondered about the founders behind successful companies?  How did they dream up their businesses?  How did they get enough conviction to bet on success?  What path led them to where they are now?  What challenges did they face?  What advice would they give to future entrepreneurs?

Founder Collective is dedicated to creating a forum for the start-up community to have these and more questions answered. We hope to enhance connections between entrepreneurs, students, venture capital funds, and early-stage startups through the real-life success stories of selected startup founders. 


MICK MOUNTZ

Mick MountzMick founded Kiva in January 2003 after spending time in high tech product development, manufacturing, operations and marketing. Prior to Kiva, Mick worked on a business process team at Webvan designing a next generation distribution strategy for grocery home delivery which sparked the idea for mobile robotic fulfillment. Prior to joining Webvan, Mick spent time in product marketing at Apple Computer as a Product Manager where he helped move many new technologies into the standard desktop platform including FireWire, DVD, Fast Ethernet, and 3D graphics acceleration. In 2008 Mick was a winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the New England region, and in 2009 under Mick’s leadership Kiva was ranked #6 on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. Mick holds five US technology patents. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT and an MBA from HBS.


KIVA SYSTEMS

Kiva Systems delivers more – more accuracy, way more productivity and unparalleled flexibility for distribution and fulfillment centers.  Kiva’s game-changing warehouse automation technology simplifies distribution operations and reduces cost, while increasing strategic flexibility.  The Kiva Mobile Robotic Order Fulfillment System enables fast cycle times with reduced labor requirements by using autonomous mobile robots, movable shelving and sophisticated control software to revolutionize pick, pack and ship operations.  Kiva’s material handling system automates order fulfillment without unwieldy conveyor delivering world class order accuracy and improved safety.  The result is a low-cost operation that is easy to change.  For more information please visit www.kivasystems.com.

 

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Microsoft New England R&D Center
One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)


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Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs, providing the first professional round of capital to promising entrepreneurs with compelling business concepts. Founder Collective is focused on helping the next generation of great entrepreneurs build important and lasting businesses. Founder Collective focuses on technology-driven companies across a broad range of industries.