Our protagonist today is no one other than Tim, the co-founder of Nift.

Nift is a company that offers an innovative logistics solution that enables brands to connect their points of retails (eCommerce, crowdfunding, store network) to a network of warehouses and carriers around the world. Thanks to a powerful algorithm, it allows automating the selection of the best stocks and carriers to be used according to the geographical location of the final customer as well as the criteria of the brand (price, delivery time, quality, etc.)

At first the need was to develop a simple project around crowdfunding for our first company. We didn’t know how to code and needed support to develop the platform we were creating. Then, we decided to continue with Satoripop for our new Nift adventure.

Nift is one of the masterpieces of satoripop.

Satoripop had accompanied Nift from the Seed phase until the specifications were drawn up.

Our teams worked together on the project, in the beginning, and made progress reports at key development points, to finally deliver the final product a few months later.

This is a very good solution to adopt when development is not central to your startup strategy. As an entrepreneur, this allows you to focus on other subjects, being certain that the development of your project is progressing well.

After that, Nift decided to switch to “control mode” and went into direct contact with some of the collaborators of satoripop, namely Bessem, Imen, Abir and Sabri, to work on the project as if they were actually in the Nift team.

In practice, this is almost the case, the Satoripop team members are 100% on the Nift project. We all talk daily, organize the project together and, day after day, they influence the product strategy that we have implemented

A real team relationship was born between the satoripop and Nift teams who, together, are planning many new features and improvements for the next three years.

It’s, in fact, on this occasion, that Tim often visits satoripop in Sousse. When he was asked about his experience there, he said:

The last time I went to Sousse to see the team members, I could eat and live like a real local. It was great! The team of Satoripop is really young and dynamic and we laugh a lot every time I go there. They also made me taste a local drink that I don’t remember its name and still don’t know what it was

This is also one of satoripop’s goals: make customers discover secret beverages!

Trust, growth and secret beverages: this is Nift’s story was originally published in satoripop on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Adrien Salamon is the co-founder of Balibart, a marketplace that enables artists to create an online art store, upload their own designs, choose their margin and sell their products without being bothered about how to handle stock and logistic issues.

From fine-cut t-shirts and cozy sweaters to mugs and cell phone shells, the platform allows users to launch their own brands while, at the same time, saving money, since they don’t have to create their own website to promote their products or even invest in stocks.

At the very beginning, Balibart’s slogan was “Balibart videz votre grenier”. The startup came on the market with the innovative idea of providing Art students with an open e-market allowing them to “empty their attics” by selling their personal sketches and work on the platform.

Adrien said he still remembered the challenges they met when they first launched “Balibart videz votre grenier”.

It was impossible to ensure the sketches were original. Plus, students didn’t want to sell their work until they are recognized by Art galleries. Then, we faced the problem of collectors who didn’t want to buy online work by unrecognized artists. Those who did buy went directly to the galleries,” he explained. “We found ourselves with sellers and buyers who did not recognize themselves in the offer and we met many logistic challenges. That’s where the idea for Balibart came up: allowing artists to sell derivatives of their original work to their fans.

Adrien declared that they had insisted on structuring and developing the new solution very quickly to propose it to users as soon as they could. At that point, they had been put in contact with satoripop, through MOOVJEE’s network.

Satoripop was able to put together a multi-skilled team and managed to assist us along our sprint of service creation. We were able to get our solution out and start our sales prospecting, in just one year.

Adrien has been collaborating with satoripop since 2015. As soon as he launched Balibart platform, on October 2016, he started to quickly witness the impressive increase in the number of users; in only eight months, the bow went from 0 to 1200 users.

Today thousands of sellers use Balibart to sell their quality merchandise online.

According to Adrien, thanks to their collaboration with satoripop, Balibart was now able to continue to improve its solution.

That will allow us to tackle the issues of strong growth and the increasing use of our solution by a large number of users. We are expecting to move now from 1.200 to 25.000 users who produce hundreds of products to customize.

Adrien frequently pays a visit to the satoripop team and shares with them true moments of conviviality.

I spent a whole month in Sousse; I worked with the team, in the offices. I really appreciate all the good souvenirs and shared moments with them: football matches, market visits, chicha nights at Port El Kantaoui beach café. All was sensational! I believe our collaboration with satoripop was born to last.

Balibart–satoripop, a collaboration born to last was originally published in satoripop on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.