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Launching our webinar series

Organizing a webinar on a topic relevant to IT freelancers was something we have had in our backlog for a long time, and now we finally got around to it!

Covid-19 resources for freelancers in Germany

Numerous companies have put current projects on hold and are trying to keep expenses as low as possible, which has had an immediate effect on the income of freelancers. In

Community jobs

Every now and then, a freelancer from our community approaches us to ask how and where they can share their own job posts. Sometimes it's for a personal project they

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January "IPAs and APIs" Community Meetup in Berlin

What better way to start the roaring 20s than to meet some fellow freelancers for a nice evening of cold drinks and inspiring conversations? On January 10, we did just

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Announcing our cooperation with Modis

tl;dr - Starting today, we'll run a 6-month trial cooperation with Modis, a recruitment company and solutions provider for IT and engineering companies. We will post selected freelance jobs

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Announcing our cooperation with Welance

In times where working remotely is becoming more and more normal among freelancers as well as regular employees, the challenge for everyone who cannot (or does not want to) work from home...

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Sandor Farkas

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Niels Madan

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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October "IPAs and APIs" Community Meetup in Berlin

For our last community meetup in Berlin we returned to one of our regular bars - the Straßenbräu in Friedrichshain! It turned out to be a great night again, and

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Thomas Krüger

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

Check your recruiter contracts with Uplink!

Some of the most common questions we have seen over the years in our Slack workspace had to do with recruiter contracts and how hard it is for a freelancer

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Mirko Strugar

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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Second Community Meetup in München

On August 30, we invited our Munich-based members out for a beer for the second time! This time the location was the Container Collective in Werksviertel, a pretty cool "pop-up

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(Re-)Announcing our cooperation with Kontist

Update from April 2020 - unfortunately the deal involving 12 free months of Kontist's premium account is currently not available. We are actively working on a new deal and will

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Manuel Bieh

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Bastian Gruber

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer neuen Interview-Reihe gehen wir darum ab sofort mit jeweils einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch. Wir hören

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Andreas Hartmetz

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und hören

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July "APIs and IPAs" Community Meetup at Straßenbräu in Berlin

On July 25, a good chunk of the Berlin Uplink community got together again to enjoy each other's company while sipping on a good cold beer! We returned to Straßenbräu,

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Announcing our cooperation with lexoffice

The most tedious part of being self-employed are often the accounting duties–whether it's the monthly or quarterly preliminary tax returns, the full tax return at the end of the

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Florian Ritzel

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit, unsere Mitglieder persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer neuen Interview-Reihe gehen wir darum ab sofort mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch. Dieses Mal: Florian Ritzel, React- und React-Native-Entwickler in Berlin.

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Meet the Uplink Community – Interview mit Britta Ollrogge

Die Uplink-Community wächst und wächst. Zeit also, euch unsere Mitglieder einmal persönlich vorzustellen. In unserer Interview-Reihe "Meet the Uplink Community" gehen wir darum mit einem unserer Mitglieder ins Gespräch und

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June "IPAs and APIs" Community Meetup in Berlin

In beginning of June, the Uplink community in Berlin got together once again to discuss the important things in life over a few cold beers. The location this time was

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Mastermind Groups

A few weeks ago we started experimenting with a mentoring format at Uplink which is very popular in the United States: Mastermind groups. From Wikipedia: A mastermind group is a

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Interview with Uplink member Gerold Kirchner about self-organizing freelancers

Did you ever wonder what other Uplink members are working on? We did. That's why we decided to showcase projects of community members in our blog and would like to

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April Community Meetup at Muted Horn in Berlin-Neukölln

On April 5 it was time for our next "IPAs and APIs" community meetup and oh boy, was it a fun one! Lots of new faces as well as old

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