Type2Friendly is an actively growing digital cookbook with a new dessert recipe published each week. Subscribers can view these recipes from their personal computer, iPhone, iPad or any mobile device that can display a PDF.
The whole idea of creating Type2Friendly started with the dedication of a wife whose husband became diabetic. Three years ago, Trey Weir was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and the self-proclaimed “sugar holic” had visions of never getting to eat desserts again. However, his wife Angela, an accomplished amateur chef, set out to find ways for Trey to eat his favorite desserts. Experimenting with alternative sugar substitutes, she was finally able to make great tasting cookies, pies, cakes and ice creams.
Trey Weir has spent his career finding new opportunities and making them successful. His current enterprise, Trey Weir Media, LLC, can trace its history through the origins of Trey’s business acumen that began in the late 1980s.
A born entrepreneur, his debut business opened just three weeks into his first semester at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. When President Ronald Reagan was scheduled to speak on campus, Trey and a fellow student created a t-shirt designed to mark the occasion. Convincing friends from his dorm that selling shirts was a great way to meet girls, he created a pro bono sales team; revenues exceeded $20,000 within two days. That single event kicked off an active enterprise he expanded throughout college years, all while maintaining his position on the Baylor football team.
During his senior year at Baylor, Trey and his best friend took their business acumen to the next level by developing plans to transform a 1930s downtown high rise hotel into high end condominium apartments. The project even got national exposure when CBS sports broadcaster, Vern Lunquist, mentioned it during Baylor’s victory in the 1992 Sun Bowl. He had been tipped off by Baylor’s legendary football coach, Grant Teaff, earlier in the week. Soon he received phone calls from successful Baylor alums who were interested in financing the project, along with a number of job offers.
After college Trey hit the playing field. He played professional arena football, spending off-seasons consulting for small businesses, primarily structuring acquisitions and preparing business valuations. Following the 1996 season (his last); he joined a telecommunications start-up in Las Colinas, Texas, as the director of Strategic Development. Independently, he and several telecom engineers eventually founded a telecommunications and Internet consulting firm. They successfully helped more than a dozen start-up companies across the United States deploy state of the art networks.
In 2007, Trey founded Bull Session, Inc., a technology think tank based in Fort Worth, Texas. He combined his broad experiences, education, and knowledge to develop Internet and mobile programming and applications. The Bull Session concept is focused on developing bleeding edge technology solutions and applications using Adobe’s Flash Media Server. Products have included live chat and VOIP for online vendors, an Internet-based talk show platform, a live education solution for home school organizations, and a communication platform for fantasy sports players to broadcast live drafts.
With his serial entrepreneurial tendencies firmly entrenched and adding a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes in 2008, Trey saw yet another opportunity. Observing how much his friends enjoyed all of the cool applications that could be downloaded onto their iPhones—one of which was a restaurant finder—Trey instantly recognized the need for an application to locate diabetic-friendly outlets and options. One day and a couple of dozen cocktail napkins later, he had sketched out a plan for Type2Friendly, a unique smartphone application that finds restaurants which serve diabetic friendly dishes. Trey partnered with a fellow diabetic to form Trey Weir Media, L.L.C. to launch the application in the late summer, 2009.
T2F is designed to help make life a little easier for those with Type 2 diabetes while creating yet another innovative, successful business endeavor by Trey Weir, no doubt with others on the horizon as he continues his innovative business career.
Type2Friendly is an actively growing digital cookbook with a new dessert recipe published each week. Subscribers can view these recipes from their personal computer, iPhone, iPad or any mobile device that can display a PDF.
The whole idea of creating Type2Friendly started with the dedication of a wife whose husband became diabetic. Three years ago, Trey Weir was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, and the self-proclaimed “sugar holic” had visions of never getting to eat desserts again. However, his wife Angela, an accomplished amateur chef, set out to find ways for Trey to eat his favorite desserts. Experimenting with alternative sugar substitutes, she was finally able to make great tasting cookies, pies, cakes and ice creams.
Trey Weir has spent his career finding new opportunities and making them successful. His current enterprise, Trey Weir Media, LLC, can trace its history through the origins of Trey’s business acumen that began in the late 1980s.
A born entrepreneur, his debut business opened just three weeks into his first semester at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. When President Ronald Reagan was scheduled to speak on campus, Trey and a fellow student created a t-shirt designed to mark the occasion. Convincing friends from his dorm that selling shirts was a great way to meet girls, he created a pro bono sales team; revenues exceeded $20,000 within two days. That single event kicked off an active enterprise he expanded throughout college years, all while maintaining his position on the Baylor football team.
During his senior year at Baylor, Trey and his best friend took their business acumen to the next level by developing plans to transform a 1930s downtown high rise hotel into high end condominium apartments. The project even got national exposure when CBS sports broadcaster, Vern Lunquist, mentioned it during Baylor’s victory in the 1992 Sun Bowl. He had been tipped off by Baylor’s legendary football coach, Grant Teaff, earlier in the week. Soon he received phone calls from successful Baylor alums who were interested in financing the project, along with a number of job offers.
After college Trey hit the playing field. He played professional arena football, spending off-seasons consulting for small businesses, primarily structuring acquisitions and preparing business valuations. Following the 1996 season (his last); he joined a telecommunications start-up in Las Colinas, Texas, as the director of Strategic Development. Independently, he and several telecom engineers eventually founded a telecommunications and Internet consulting firm. They successfully helped more than a dozen start-up companies across the United States deploy state of the art networks.
In 2007, Trey founded Bull Session, Inc., a technology think tank based in Fort Worth, Texas. He combined his broad experiences, education, and knowledge to develop Internet and mobile programming and applications. The Bull Session concept is focused on developing bleeding edge technology solutions and applications using Adobe’s Flash Media Server. Products have included live chat and VOIP for online vendors, an Internet-based talk show platform, a live education solution for home school organizations, and a communication platform for fantasy sports players to broadcast live drafts.
With his serial entrepreneurial tendencies firmly entrenched and adding a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes in 2008, Trey saw yet another opportunity. Observing how much his friends enjoyed all of the cool applications that could be downloaded onto their iPhones—one of which was a restaurant finder—Trey instantly recognized the need for an application to locate diabetic-friendly outlets and options. One day and a couple of dozen cocktail napkins later, he had sketched out a plan for Type2Friendly, a unique smartphone application that finds restaurants which serve diabetic friendly dishes. Trey partnered with a fellow diabetic to form Trey Weir Media, L.L.C. to launch the application in the late summer, 2009.
T2F is designed to help make life a little easier for those with Type 2 diabetes while creating yet another innovative, successful business endeavor by Trey Weir, no doubt with others on the horizon as he continues his innovative business career.