ComicReply connected with potential partners in the French Tech Tour Canada. Organized by Business France North America (the French Embassy Trade Office) the event brought successful France startups to Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone with presentations and meetings. We met with several potential partners and keep the conversation going as ComicReply… read more →
Giant Step/ComicReply participated in The Digital City Roundtable at the Canada-Netherlands Resilient Cities Summit. From big data to funding issues, the KPMG-hosted discussion at Evergreen Brickworks covered various tops related to the making of Digital Cities, applying interactive technology in useful ways for the public. Being a very innovative, geographically… read more →
Back to School / Back to Work time is always fun. Exploring stationary stores for pens, pencils, erasers, backpacks and notebooks. It a fresh start after the summer and every stationary store seems to run very similar promotions. One way to stand out in the crowd is to make stationary… read more →
Book marketing can be a lot of fun when readers and potential readers play with the ideas of the book – in a contest setting. In this contest publishers invite fans to dress up a scene from the book. How it works: 1. Select a theme for the contest, following… read more →
Giant Step/ComicReply participated in the Prepr Education Challenge Weekend at Mozilla Toronto. In the EduHack we developed a concept for a way to apply ComicReply for the education market. ComicReply provides a new way for students to explore topics of discussion through fun, creative contests. Our platform can be used… read more →
Exploring Venture Funding at the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) We attended the CIX event this year to learn more about the various options for angel and venture funding for ComicReply. This included preparing a slide deck, many meetings with angel investors and early technology VC fund mangers. Once ComicReply has… read more →
Meeting with potential employees and faculty partners at the triOS College Career Fair. We participated in the career fair with a ComicReply booth presenting the platform and also the ComicYourPet.com application in progress. We met with students from the Enterprise Web & Mobile Developer (EWMD) and other related Applications Development… read more →
ComicReply participated in the Toronto Small Business Forum, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in the York Entrepreneurial Development Institute‘s booth. The City of Toronto’s Small Business Forum is an event for entrepreneurs, from startups to established businesses, providing an opportunity to connect with many tactical resources to grow their… read more →
ComicReply and ScoopyBags.com have partnered on the soon to launch ComicYourPet App. The App will have monthly Pet Comics Contests for a chance to win a year’s supply of poop bags from ScoopyBags.com – simply take a photo of your dog, cat or other pet, add clip-art, talking bubbles and… read more →
ComicReply completed the York Entrepreneurial Development Institute program with a Venture Fair presentation and booth at Schulich Executive Education Centre, York University. The Venture Fair presentation introduced the idea that marketers are running photo and video contests to attract customers in a fun and exciting way. While these contests are… read more →