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Issue #47 (17 Apr) – 23 jobs; first meetup photo; introducing Kleinanzeigen; tips from a real estate agent; how to spend a couple of EUR to save hundreds in your bathroom?

Apr 17, 2023

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Programming note: I am back after a short break; I want to decrease “the wall of text”, but this requires compromises on the number of links. Let’s see how it goes. I moved more jobs to the website.

I was so happy to meet some of the handpicked readers on the first meetup: pure quality. If you are not yet on the list, you can join for the next casual drinks meetup somewhere in May (we now also have a Whatsapp group):

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Check the photo in the Meanwhile section.

👀 Handpicked twenty-three

📨 readers submitted
🗂️ database with thirteen more jobs this way

🧞‍♂️ Outliers.

💾 Data & Operations.

🎬 Projects & Product.

🥇Interested in sponsoring handpicked?

📢 Shoutouts / Community Kleinanzeigen

EDIT online only: I received great feedback on this, so I prepared a form. Please submit your stuff here. 🙏

We have amazing people here, from hiring managers to curious minds. I’d like to support an exchange, and we already have five entries:

I am selling my ticket for The Tallest Man on Earth on the 1st of May in Metropol. Email me. The man is great, worth seeing!
Check out Nisha Katti if you need digital, print, web or UI/UX design. Freelance or full-time. She is responsive and fun!
I am also looking for someone who can help me enhance very weak sounds in a Voice memo recording.
YOU could be LOOKING for A ROLE or A JOB, and I can give you exposure to thousands of views.
YOU are maybe DOING something special and want OTHERS to know?

If YOU want to be included, drop me an email/message. Anonymous (e.g. jobs/roles search) is also possible; I will act as an intermediary. You can also leave a comment for visibility IMMEDIATELY. 👇

🗞 Top inspiration snippets

🇩🇪 Berlin & Other good stuff

😇 I am still looking for your feedback. Why do you read handpicked? What should I change? What should I do more of?
❤️ Berlin has the best public transport in the world! (20k people in 50 cities were surveyed; 97% of Berliners are happy with it)
berliner_zeitung
A post shared by Berliner Zeitung (@berliner_zeitung)
🏘️ Based on that viral 150m line for the apartment viewing disaster in Charlottenburg, Berliner Zeitung interviewed a real estate agent. Worth a read (🇩🇪); I was fascinated that over a decade ago, landlords were fighting for tenants with 500€ IKEA vouchers. Includes some tips to increase your chances: have your Unterlagen well organised and prepare a good & short intro e-mail.
🪫 I found an Apple USB-C/USB adapter. I thought of taking it but then remembered it could be tempered. In a similar fashion, never “ever ever plug your phone into a public charger, especially if you can’t see where the cable goes,” says Marques Brownlee.
🎟️ To clarify any remaining Berlin-related doubts about the 49 EUR Deutschland ticket, the best place is to check out Nicolas’ All About Berlin.
🥷 Last Generation/Extinction Rebellion started to target the rich, at least the hotels they go to (great comments on r/berlin). Apparently, they also plan to bring Berlin to a standstill in the last week of April and the beginning of May. Better leave your Mercedes parked!
🚰 You can save a lot of money (€100+) by changing your shower head. But first, you will need to get access to the Stiftung Warentest test.
😐 Bad News: Agrilution (vertical farming, Munich) close to liquidation; EyeEM insolvent; Brands4Friends out of business end of June, nextmarkets (Cologne) also in trouble; RIP Avocargo (16 people, Berlin); Econos (Munich) liquidated.
r/berlin choice of the week is this great advertisement from BVG again. I hold many Swabians close to my heart, but this is funny. (context: Swabians are considered cheap/frugal. Related useless fact: in Slovenia, the pejorative for all Germans is Swabians, so my friends now sometimes call me Švabo.)
📢 I discovered the writings of one of the handpicked readers,
Christian Näthler
, and he knows how to write. I liked whatever I read, for example:
lol/sos
Two ways to spend six minutes
[I open my laptop and start clicking around.] A girl I went to school with uploaded eight photos of herself giving the finger. The fakest person I know is becoming an authenticity coach. Jordan Peterson retweeted an image of men being milked in a sex dungeon, blaming communism…
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2 years ago · 12 likes · 9 comments · Christian Näthler
In short: Klarna will compete with check24 and Idealo in Germany; Personio grew 137% in 2021 (!) but also had 4x the losses (112M); Lilium (flying taxi, Munich) could be thrown off the NASDAQ because the share is a penny stock; Union NGG called for a strike of Lieferando riders.

💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany

Quantica | Berlin | Multi-material 3D printing | €14M Series A | Careers.
Enote | Berlin | Gamechanger for musicians, digitizing paper sheet music into digital scores | €10M Series A | Careers.
NYRIS | Berlin | Visual search and recognition technology for industries such as retail and manufacturing | €10M | Careers.
MakerVerse | Berlin | AI-powered on-demand supply chain manufacturing | €9.4M Series A | Careers.
Clue App | Berlin | Empowers women to track their fertility easily and accurately | €7M | Careers.
Gaeastar | Berlin | Developing technology and materials for single-use products to eliminate waste | $6.5M Seed | No careers yet.
METR | Berlin | IoT platform enabling connected use-cases for efficient real estate management & housing industry | €6M Series A | Careers.
Prestatech | Berlin | Innovative underwriting platform for banks and financial institutions in Europe | €4M | Careers.
UnitPlus | Berlin | Bridge between payment and investment worlds for frictionless capital market investing | €1M Seed | Careers.
Finto Technologies | Berlin | Monetization engine for B2B SaaS companies | $500K Seed | Careers not there yet.
tado° | Munich | Smart home climate control | €12M | Careers.
TVARIT | Frankfurt | Manufacturing waste reduction | €5M | Careers.
Natix Network | Hamburg | Decentralised network of cameras for real-time city maps | $3.5M Seed | Careers not really there.
AMSilk | Munich | Sustainable silk proteins | +€25M in Series C | Careers.
deepc | Munich | Digital medicine | $13M Series A | Careers

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🤓 Timeless and useful

If you ever want to publish a book or have a friend who wants to publish a book or want to get insights into how it works, have a look at this article, which you can also pair with this legendary text from Erik Hoel.

😅 Meanwhile

this really made me laugh out loud:

And here we go, one for the history books:

“Part of the attendees on the first meetup of Handpicked for Berlin, 12.4.2023, BrewDog Mitte,” as described by Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin in 2095. For future records: I am one of the two with the best hair.

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This is a footer chart comparing education levels between men and women in Europe with a fascinating look at DACH region (without former DDR). h/t

Adam Tooze

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