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Episode 66…Marj Weir and Prep and Serv
Prep & Serve makes meals AND clean up in minutes just like a restaurant with this modular storage system. Marj Weir was standing in line at Subway™ when the idea came to her – a good prep system just like restaurants use would make meals easier at home. But this is only part of the story.
Marj Weir believes thoughtful design contributes to better living. Her patented and patent-pending products include EZ Light Wraps, PrepNServe and the EZBar Box. Every inventor has their own unique journey and we invite you to listen to Episode 66…Marj Weir and Prep and Serve. To download/listen the podcast please click the button at the top left. Thank you and please tell a friend.
Work Experience
Fitware, LLC
2006 – Present
St. Paul, MN
Marj Weir designed Fitware aka Prep & Serve around all the other containers for food storage available on the market today. So one simple system can serve from the market to the dinner table. And Prep & Serve seals up to 12 containers separately, yet all under ONE lid. This allows you to make, take, and move around multiple items in one box.
The Prep and Serve is the perfect packaging solution as it will create a simplified way to make meals, count calories and best of all…deliver the party. We like to think of it as the USB of food packaging. So for more information can be found at http://PrepAndServe.com
EZ Light Wraps
Founder
Mar 2018 – Present
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Marj Weir has been working on the EZ Light Wraps for several months. She came up the idea from working for years in real estate industry and viewing 100’s of foreclosures that needed updating. The EZ Light Wraps is a simple, DIY fix – so no electrician or skills is required. So you can update your bathroom in just a couple minutes. It’s perfect for realtor gifts and quick-staging too. Apartment dwellers can up-cycle easily, leaving no damage to the fixture so you can take it with when you move.
(ez barbox)
Product Design Development
VW Design Inc.
Feb 2006 – Present
United States
Marj Weir feels incredibly fortunate to work doing what she loves. Her commitment as an entrepreneur and designer has opened doors, allowing her to meet interesting people and push her creativity and inventiveness to the limits of possibility.
Her inventions have attracted interest and support from:
Prep and Serve—Selected from among 3,000 concepts for patent development
EZ Bar Box – Chosen for NCB Show Product Tank
Lighting Concept – Finalist for Ideagist Accelerator/Incubator 2017
Raised $160k seed funding for two product concepts
Successful execution of two crowdfunding campaigns—one raising $26,000 in two weeks
Invited to compete in Open IDEO’s (Green) Plastics Challenge
Inventors’ Network
Board Member
2015 – Present
LaBelle Real Estate Group, Inc.
Independent agent
May 2007 – Jun 2018
St. Paul & eastern suburbs
Marj Weir has spent 10 years in residential real estate including many home rehabilitation projects with investor buyers and sellers. So working with investors and many first time buyers enabled Marj to see new products, new ideas, what rehabilitater did and what buyers really wanted.
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By The Invention Stories PodcastPrep & Serve makes meals AND clean up in minutes just like a restaurant with this modular storage system. Marj Weir was standing in line at Subway™ when the idea came to her – a good prep system just like restaurants use would make meals easier at home. But this is only part of the story.
Marj Weir believes thoughtful design contributes to better living. Her patented and patent-pending products include EZ Light Wraps, PrepNServe and the EZBar Box. Every inventor has their own unique journey and we invite you to listen to Episode 66…Marj Weir and Prep and Serve. To download/listen the podcast please click the button at the top left. Thank you and please tell a friend.
Work Experience
Fitware, LLC
2006 – Present
St. Paul, MN
Marj Weir designed Fitware aka Prep & Serve around all the other containers for food storage available on the market today. So one simple system can serve from the market to the dinner table. And Prep & Serve seals up to 12 containers separately, yet all under ONE lid. This allows you to make, take, and move around multiple items in one box.
The Prep and Serve is the perfect packaging solution as it will create a simplified way to make meals, count calories and best of all…deliver the party. We like to think of it as the USB of food packaging. So for more information can be found at http://PrepAndServe.com
EZ Light Wraps
Founder
Mar 2018 – Present
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Marj Weir has been working on the EZ Light Wraps for several months. She came up the idea from working for years in real estate industry and viewing 100’s of foreclosures that needed updating. The EZ Light Wraps is a simple, DIY fix – so no electrician or skills is required. So you can update your bathroom in just a couple minutes. It’s perfect for realtor gifts and quick-staging too. Apartment dwellers can up-cycle easily, leaving no damage to the fixture so you can take it with when you move.
(ez barbox)
Product Design Development
VW Design Inc.
Feb 2006 – Present
United States
Marj Weir feels incredibly fortunate to work doing what she loves. Her commitment as an entrepreneur and designer has opened doors, allowing her to meet interesting people and push her creativity and inventiveness to the limits of possibility.
Her inventions have attracted interest and support from:
Prep and Serve—Selected from among 3,000 concepts for patent development
EZ Bar Box – Chosen for NCB Show Product Tank
Lighting Concept – Finalist for Ideagist Accelerator/Incubator 2017
Raised $160k seed funding for two product concepts
Successful execution of two crowdfunding campaigns—one raising $26,000 in two weeks
Invited to compete in Open IDEO’s (Green) Plastics Challenge
Inventors’ Network
Board Member
2015 – Present
LaBelle Real Estate Group, Inc.
Independent agent
May 2007 – Jun 2018
St. Paul & eastern suburbs
Marj Weir has spent 10 years in residential real estate including many home rehabilitation projects with investor buyers and sellers. So working with investors and many first time buyers enabled Marj to see new products, new ideas, what rehabilitater did and what buyers really wanted.