member interview 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 nach, was sie
community-meetup 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, a fantastic brewery
cooperation 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 fiscal year, or
member interview 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.
member interview 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 hören nach, was
community-meetup 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 the lovely "Tiergartenquelle"
mastermind-groups 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 peer-to-peer mentoring concept
member interview 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 present our first
community-meetup 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 ones happy to
cooperation Announcing our cooperation with the tax consultancy Führer & Orgel Dealing with taxes is an unavoidable part of being self-employed. Especially in Germany, where bureaucracy and tax laws are notoriously complicated, it's important to have a knowledgeable expert at your side—either to
community-meetup First "IPAs and APIs" meetup in 2019 at "Labor" in Berlin On February 7 we invited our freelancer community to our first "IPAs and APIs" meetup of 2019 to Labor in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Our sponsor this time was Equal Experts (thanks!) and it was again
xmas-donations Results of our Xmas Donations Campaign Back in December we came up with a fun way for the members of our community to help us give back to some support-worthy causes.Every member received 100 (virtual) cents to allocate
retrospective Looking back and ahead In this post, I want to look back at what we accomplished in 2018 and give an outlook on what we plan to work on this year!
xmas-donations Join our Xmas Donations Campaign! We've had a fantastic year here at Uplink — the size of our community more than doubled to almost 600 members, we hosted regular craft beer meetups in Berlin where we had the chance
How to spot unfair freelance contracts Earlier this month the VGSD — Verband der Gründer und Selbstständigen Deutschland e.V. — held an online presentation with lawyer Julia Gertz, who specializes in IT contracts and showed us how to identify unfair
