Continuing in our trend of highlighting parent inventors and creators, we’re showcasing another innovator :
James Oliver, Jr, the dad Blogger from trepLifeDad, spends some of his times balancing family life with his wife and brand new twins and catapulting a StartUp venture to the next level.
The Brooklyn native’s company WeMontage is the homesickness cure for your first year college kid who needs vibrant reminders of home and family to keep spirits lifted during long spans of time away from the comforts of home and close family.
Oliver put his accounting degree from Morehouse College and MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill to good use after becoming inspired by a HGTV episode that featured an interior designer decorating a wall with photos using a DIY method.
He graduated from a prestigious tech accelerator program, gener8tor, and from there raised capital to launch and fund the company.
Currently, WeMontage is the only website that allows users to upload their favorite photos, create a custom photo collage, and print them out onto large, removable wallpaper with adhesive backing.
And considering that universities and landlords usually do not allow college dorm rooms or rental apartment units to have too many holes in the walls, WeMontage’s removable adhesives are perfect!
Besides curing ills of that homesick Freshmen, the decorative walls are also a very unique way to decorate one wall of your new baby’s nursery or even an older child’s play room.
Recreate nostalgic memories from your wedding, graduation or other precious life moment in an office den, man cave or other work or play room; or in a campus locker room, gym or other area.
And there are various options to cover smaller areas as well. Very cool.
To create beautiful wall montages, all you need is a straight edge. Oliver recommends having a friend help with installation for larger spaces, but guarantees that the entire process would take under 15 minutes.
And there is social consciousness to Oliver’s company as well. WeMontage recently donated 100 photo montages to college freshmen to fight homesickness.
Nice!
Oliver is working on raising more awareness of his fabulous product and utilizes a team of two part time developers and a publicist to help him get the word out. He was recently featured as Dad of the Week on The Mom’s radio show on Sirius/XM and is about to launch a project with BlogHer and SheKnows following his very moving reading of his Voices of the Year article about his son during this year’s BlogHer conference.
Good stuff.
If you’d like to give it a try for free, head on over to WeMontage and sign up and if you eventually purchase, you get 30% off the product thru next Thursday, August 13th if you use our code “bellyitch30”!
Please send us a photo to see your project once up to contact (at)bellyitchblog.com! Thanks!
photos: courtesy WeMontage