Will Weinraub (LiveNinja)

December 9, 2014 at 11:00 PM UTC – December 10, 2014 at 2:00 AM UTC

Born and raised in Miami, Will Weinraub first learned how to build websites at age thirteen and hasn't looked back since. After launching two successful businesses by the age of sixteen, Will went on to attend Florida State University to study Communications and shortly after returning to Miami he launched LiveNinja, a venture backed startup in the video chat space.

In-person event

About this event

Born and raised in Miami, Will Weinraub first learned how to build websites at age thirteen and hasn't looked back since. After launching two successful businesses by the age of sixteen, Will went on to attend Florida State University to study Communications and shortly after returning to Miami he launched LiveNinja, a venture backed startup in the video chat space.
  • Capital Raises: LiveNinja has raised $900K to date from mostly from angel investors in Miami such as Accelerated Growth Partners, Marco Giberti, DaDNeos, Sean Smith, Tigre Wenrich (from OpenEnglish), and more.
  • Growth: LiveNinja currently has over 4,000 experts on it's marketplace that span topics such as fitness, medicine, education, fashion, music, language, and consulting, just to name a few. Since launch (December 2012) they've had over 10,000 live sessions performed on the platform. On the Katana side, they just finished developing that product and we have launched with 10 selected enterprise partners. In Q1 of 2015, they'll be launching with a number of Fortune 500 companies.
  • Past speaking engagements: Startup City Miami, Robert Scoble's Show, eMerge America, Refresh Miami, FIU, Web Summit
  • Notable Press: ForbesTechCrunchTheNextWebTechCocktailMiamiHerald
In this Fireside Chat we'll cover topics from Will's perspective including -
  • Raising Capital in Miami (and beyond)
  • Competing with Mammoths Like Google
  • Building Company Culture & Community
  • Recruiting (how to attract great talent)
  • Getting Through the Really Hard Times
  • Balancing a Company and a Growing Family
  • Keeping Employees Motivated

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Will Weinraub

    LiveNinja

When

When

December 9 – 10, 2014
11:00 PM – 2:00 AM UTC

Agenda

11:00 PMNetworking and Food
12:00 AMFireside Chat
1:00 AMNetworking

Organizers

  • Dr. Lascelle A. Sweetland

    iLab Startup Foundation

    Miami Chapter Director

  • Joan Zhang

    Startup Grind Miami

    Co-Director

  • Mark Weber

    Member Services

  • Julio C. Cassels

    Minister of Strategic Relationships

  • Edwin Muhammad

    BRAINWASH Media

    CEO/ Chapter Media Manager

  • Sol Ballard

    MBody

    Events Moderator

  • Denisse Thais Miller

    Ricenbeans

    Marketing/Business Development