How to run an efficient two-person company A lot of people are surprised when they hear that Uplink is run by only two people - Nick and me. We do everything ourselves: talking to clients, posting jobs,
cooperation Announcing our first Recruiting Partner Nemensis tl;dr - Nemensis is the first of our partners who will be able use our system to publish jobs in our community, and interview and introduce freelancers to their
Announcing our Community Wiki One of the features, that many members of our community have asked for over the years, was a way to "bookmark" certain posts from our Slack workspace to make it
Community jobs Update June 2020 - #jobs-community is now also open for Uplink members, who started their own startup and are looking for co-founders or a CTO in exchange for shares! Every
community-meetup 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
cooperation Announcing our cooperation with Modis Update July 2020 - Our cooperation with Modis has now ended and will not be renewed as of right now. tl;dr - Starting today, we'll run a 6-month trial
cooperation Announcing our cooperation with Welance Update July 2020 - the Welance coworking space does not exist anymore unfortunately! In times where working remotely is becoming more and more normal among freelancers as well as regular
community-meetup 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
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
community-meetup 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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
