🥁 Salary Trends '24 results are here ...

Issue #97 (15 Apr) – jobs had a break; special offer for Freelance Unlocked; a pitch for Berlin; how to find an apartment in Berlin and start a company in Germany; find people to collaborate with.

Apr 15, 2024

Programming note: This issue is shorter because the Salary Trends Survey was again much more work than expected. 😅 In short, we got more and better data and built better products around it. I hope you’ll like it.

Thanks to everyone participating and especially everyone helping— you know who you are and I know who you are. Every share, like, comment or repost counted towards these great results. I am also very grateful to Richard, Ignacio, Katya and Juan for helping me elevate this project to the next level.

But before you click… please promise to return to this post and read the rest. Thanks.

Results are this way!

Let me know what you think! You can also message me on Instagram.

🌟 Handpicked Community

📨 Submit your input here. Inspiration for all the categories on the link.

🎪 Meet — tech & other events:

HTW Startup Challenge | Tue, 16.4 at 17.00 | HTW
UX-Testing at the Startup Incubator Berlin | Thu, 25.4 at 17.00 | Startup Incubator Berlin
Berlin Design Week | Wed, 27.4 - 5.5. | Peter-Behrens-Bau and other locations

😎 Show — Cool stuff / Shoutouts / Projects & similar:

🚨 My first-ever raffle for the Freelance Unlocked 2024 conference in mid-May was unexpectedly popular. We now have a special deal for the ones who weren’t lucky. We’ve got a couple of Handpicked Partner tickets for €79 (+VAT) instead of €199. Get them while they last.
🎨 Join We Draw Life Berlin for artistic sessions with a nude model every Wednesday at Café Plume and Sundays at TORTE, Neukölln. You need your own materials, but no tablets. Fee: €10. The first four readers booking via Instagram with the code WE LOVE DRAW LIFE will get a free session. No prior experience is needed!
Apply for the Deep Tech award by the 26th of April.

🔍 Ask — for a Service / Co-founder / Project help & similar:

we had no submissions; niemand hat sich gemeldet, Schade, because you would have so much attention.

Looking for the submission link? It’s below the title ⤴️

👀 Handpicked jobs

📨 Submitted by HR or readers

MBition - Intern - Learning & Development (must be enrolled in 🇩🇪)
🇩🇪 Complori - People and Community Operations Manager

🚨 submit yours on the link 🚨

The rest of the jobs are off this week. Sorry! Back next week.

Jobs from the last two issues are in the Handpicked online database.

📢 What if there was a newsletter about Berlin in English that ALSO covered politics and Berlin-relevant news twice weekly?

Actually, there is one. It’s called 20percent Berlin, and you should absolutely read it. We are not a sister/brother publication yet, but that’s only because I only had a vodka martini with

Maurice Frank

Andrew Bulkeley

was away.

Subscribe here.

🗞 Top inspiration snippets

🇩🇪 Berlin & Other good stuff

📸 We still have a couple of spaces for the great opportunity to transform your CV/Linkedin, dating, or social media profiles with some great photos. Put yourself on the list here.
🙏 Your feedback on Google reviews last week was overwhelmingly positive, but after discussing it with several people, I decided I need to approach the topic from a different angle because I don’t want to deal with negativity and get sued by the template lawyers. My main takeaway is still taking Google reviews with a massive grain of salt.
♡ I loved this pitch for Berlin from 2018 (h/t Betty!). The pitch doctor also mentioned EyeEm and N26, both featured in today’s Briefly section:
Nico of the All About Berlin fame wrote this gem on how to find an apartment in Berlin with everything you need for success. There is almost nothing to add, execpt more execution tips from my own experience. Soon.
If you ever want to start a company in Germany, here is a guide to bookmark. There are also options to buy an existing off-the-shelf company if you need it earlier. I am just going through the founding of an Einzelunternehmen, and I am shocked at how long it’s taking! 🤯
Inflation is dropping all over the EU, but not the US?
Career: “Find people to talk to or collaborate with by searching across the /about, /ideas and /now pages of 6054 personal websites.” A lot of Berliners if you try the “Berlin” search.
Timeless: Untranslatable words from all over the world. 2195 entries in 115 languages. From German: doch, 8/15, nah am Wasser gebaut, nur Bahnhof verstehen and more.
Reddit choice of the week is a is a comparison video of Friedrichstraße 1896 vs 2024.
💬 Briefly:
1. 😔 Bad news: TikTok -250; Smunch (online canteen, Berlin) closing on 21st of April.
2. You might have asked yourself why these brief snippets sometimes have no link. It’s simply because Handpicked is very link intensive, and the more links I add, the bigger the email, so I need to remove links to prevent it from getting cut. Usually, I sacrifice links in this section.
3. Now N26 also turned on stock and ETF trading. What a crowded market!
4. ProSiebenSat1 media is considering selling price comparison website Verivox and online beauty retailer Flaconi. (BBG)
5. Volocopter’s plans to start running regular flight services in Paris during the Olympics are in danger. One problem is the necessary approval, and the other is local opposition. If, they will fly “by invitation”. (Capital, 🇩🇪)
6. Solaris is in the media again. This time again about losing a customer: Finom. (financeFWD)
7. EyeEm, a Berlin-based bankrupt stock photo company, will be taken over by Freepik.

💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany

Zolar | Berlin | ClimateTech for renewable energy projects | €100M loan | Careers.
Scavenger AI | Berlin | AI-based business consultancy | €1.1M Pre-seed | Careers.
Kalia Lab | Berlin | Clean chemical production technologies | €39M | Careers.
Torg | Berlin | Digital marketplace for food and beverage industry | €2.7M Seed | No careers.
Vyoma | Munich | Satellite-based space debris monitoring | €16M | Careers.
Proxima Fusion | Munich | Development of fusion power plants | €20M Seed | Careers.
Interloom | Munich | AI-enhanced robotic process automation | €2.8M | Careers.
Olivaw | Munich | Robotics platform for cross-manufacturer integration | €1.2M Pre-seed | No careers.

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