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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

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

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

The Berlin-based FinTech startup Kontist was our first cooperation partner and we are still big fans of their business bank account designed for freelancers! Nowadays they're offering even more and

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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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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

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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

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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)

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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!

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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

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