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Issue #59 (10 Jul) – 20+ Sales jobs; ultra-processed food divide; Euro24 goal; send your name to Europa; cost of living index; the best map of stuff to do in Berlin; antifa and the most popular names.
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Programming note: I cancelled my social life this week and, next to my day job, dedicated most of my free time to the Report on Berlin Salary Trends. I got help but still did not manage to publish. It will be published this week at handpickedberlin.com and linked everywhere else (LinkedIn, Twitter). Stay tuned.
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🇩🇪 Workday - Corporate Sales Development Representative - DACH
🇩🇪 Otis Elevator - Duales Studium 2024 – BWL/Industrie Schwerpunkt Vertrieb - Berlin
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Akanksha is seeking a Junior Data Analyst/Marketing Analyst role. She has an MBA in Finance, years of experience working in Banks and International Consulting companies, am skilled in SAP, Excel, Tableau and SQL (BigQuery, PostgreSQL). She is learning R and Python and has B1 German, based here.
Boglárka is looking for an HRBP/People Partner role. She has strong recruitment background and recently expanded to people partnering. Great business acumen that can support/lead employee experience and other on HR projects. Reliable, driven team player excelling under pressure.
Tom (e-mail) is a seasoned, creative product marketing specialist with a unique breadth of communication, business strategy, and operational experience working in the alternative investments space. Leveraging his background and experiences, he is eager to work in a similar capacity at a fintech company in Berlin!
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🇩🇪 Berlin & Other good stuff
🤕 Do you share photos of your kids online? An interesting video from Telekom! Maybe a bit too much, but it still makes me wonder if I should start producing video content and put my face out there.
🕵️ Maybe you can help Sarena from Canada? she is looking for Daniel Moskopf to reunite with him after 30 years. A lovely story from the analogue times; I hope they meet again. I have not tried much googling, but I found a candidate really fast.
🍟 How much ultra-processed food do you eat? (e.g. soft drinks, candy, chips, frozen dinners, processed meat) A fascinating chart:
🎬 Here is some Reddit crowd wisdom for German movies to watch. I have only watched a couple. For the series, I already recommended one of my favourites, Jerks, but only if you can handle cringe humour. Meanwhile, Yorck is also offering Oppenheimer on 70mm if you are interested. Did I fall for a marketing trick? I have no idea how different it should look like.
😅 When considering applying for a job, you should maybe read through the lines: this comment on Reddit offers some brilliant translations. I liked "Must be a self-starter." Translation: "Shits on fire yo."
🤷🏻♂️ Ausländerbehörde is not a disaster only in Berlin but also in Stuttgart. Ninety calls a day with nobody picking up is a joke. But apparently, you should send them a fax, which is possible online too. We need a qualified workforce badly, and it cannot be so hard to ENGINEER or FIND a solution, huh? Similar to solving the natural gas problem, for example. Pair this information with this funny(?) visual representation of German bureaucracy.
⚽️ Next year, Euro24 will also be hosted in Berlin. We will get a massive goal (poorly rendered images are available) at Brandenburger Tor. They expect 2.5M visitors, which might be an (💰) opportunity for your spare room or your Keller: we only had 138k hotel beds in 2021, according to RBB.
✉️ Toll! Deutsche Post will stop delivering plastic-wrapped advertising cr*p by the end of March next year. I still do not understand why a particular company does not give a shit about my “Keine Werbung bitte” sticker.
🪐 Thanks to the tip from a reader, I sent my name towards Europa, Jupiter. You can too. Maybe we end up being listed together; we will never know.
😩 Here is a list of over 65 startups that are insolvent or gone by mid-2023. I am happy that I probably only published Avocargo jobs a few times. Sorry.
📊 Numbeo published a mid-year cost of living index. I am not even gonna tell you who is the richest in Europe because we all know it. But I will tell you that I am really surprised about the top German city Darmstadt (#19). Berlin is 38th, #27 Munich, #28 Dusseldorf, #30 Hamburg, #69 Stuttgart.
😔 Bad news: Kenkou (Berlin, E-health), Future Stories & JoyBräu (Hamburg), deinschrank.de (Rheinbach) insolvent.
👨🏻🍳 Here are restaurants for your romantic date from a Reddit thread (€50-80) but even better,
Zim from (a newsletter you SHOULD subscribe to!) created this amazing Google Maps project. Besides the regular stuff (eat, drink, see), it also includes something unique, romantic/date ideas—an instant bookmark. ❤️
r/berlin choice of the week is this comment about city-wide fibre optic internet: “Good to know my grandchildren will have a chance for a faster internet.” On a related note, I am paying good money for Magenta, but I still have problems with connection too often. Ach komm.
Over 150 execs from major European firms signed an open letter criticising the EU's new AI Act. They argue that strict rules, particularly for generative AI systems, could hinder Europe’s competitiveness and dissuade AI providers from the European market. The main challenge are the foundational models, which cost a fortune to train. I’ve worked on implementing GDPR, and yes, in theory, things make sense, but good luck with enforcing and implementing it.
💬 Briefly:
Zenjob closes 2022 with a record €80M revenue, projecting over €100M in 2023 and aiming for profitability.
Swedish HealthTech Neko Health (Ek from Spotify) secures €60M Series A to expand its non-invasive scanning tech across Europe.
Insolvent Berlin-based EdTech quofox acquired by Dutch EdTech company Archipel Academy.
Tesla officially acquires Freiburg-based charging startup, Wiferion. Related, Mercedes-Benz joins Volkswagen, General Motors, and Ford in planning to give its EV customers access to Tesla's fast-charging network in the US.
Immoscout24 Co-CEO, Gesa Crockford, declares the real estate market price slump over. Buyers adjusted to higher interest rates. I don’t buy it; it sounds like a narrative push.
Besides your sandals, you will also be able to own Birkenstock shares. The most German sandals company is planning a US IPO valued at around $6B.
Ah komm, Deutsche Bahn. In the first six months of this year, only 68.6% of ICE and IC trains were on time. (🇩🇪) Compared to the Swiss 93% and Japan’s close to 100%, that’s viel luft nach oben.
💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany
Halitus people, if you are reading this, pls check your careers page.
ContractHero | Berlin | Offers a contract management solution for business customers | €2.15M | Careers.
seedtrace | Berlin | Aims to "make transparency along the supply chain the norm" by offering a platform that makes the social and environmental impact of products visible and provable | €2M | Careers.
eaze | Berlin | A health tech dedicated to offering tech-enabled sleep coaching using cognitive behavioural therapy | €1.7M Pre-Seed | Careers.
Halitus | Berlin | Develops an AI-supported analysis tool that quickly and uncomplicatedly detects the concentration of various disease-relevant biomarkers in the breath | €1M | Careers.
EGYM | Munich | A health and fitness platform for businesses to access gym tech, software and services | $225M Series F | Careers.
Finn | Munich | Focuses on car subscriptions and aims to fully finance vehicles in the future and use equity capital for operational growth | €25M Asset-Backed | Careers.
Nimmsta | Munich | Uses a back-of-hand scanner with a touch display which makes the entire logistics industry more efficient | €4.6M | No Careers.
ChargeX | Munich & Dresden | Provides plug&play multi-plug systems for charging stations for electric cars | €11.5M | Careers.
Quantagonia | Frankfurt am Main | Quantum computing platform aimed at solving computational problems in AI/machine learning applications | €4.3M Seed | Careers.
Twinsity | Kassel | Creates SaaS solutions for digital 3D replicas of real objects, known as digital twins | €2.5M | Careers.
🤓 Timeless and useful
Feel learning about the latest hype, AI, in an organised and well-researched matter? The main hype chasers in the VC world, a16z, have published this detailed research called AI Canon.
😅 Meanwhile
antifa
This is a footer list of the most popular names in the world. Sad to see that Igor is nowhere to be seen. Mohammed, Maria and Nushi are TOP3. I actually do not know any Nushi. You?
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