London / SF
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PocketProf (www.thepocketprof.com)
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CTO, Product, Business Development
We take the data from your personal tracking apps and devices and turn it into behavioural medicine. Our first product, Sleepio (www.sleepio.com), is a clinically-proven sleep improvement program. Now we need your help to develop our product and business to the next level!
We're hiring a CTO, product, marketing and business development leads. If you get excited by using your skills to transform people's health, then get in touch with us at jobs@thepocketprof.com.
More details on roles at www.thepocketprof.com/jobs/
Glad to see a non London company added themselves - there's a lot more to the UK startup scene that what is going on in London. In fact there are many reasons against starting a company in London
You've hit the two main ones on the head but the third is more intangible. In London it seems (to outsiders) that people are just trying to emulate SV, this means that you're competing in an international and, most likely, saturated market that doesn't align with what the rest of the UK is traditionally best at.
The UK was built on trade and engineering that mostly started outside London to avoid the Guilds and their stupid rules. I think being outside London gets you closer to these skills and experience and makes you focus more on building a business and less on following international, sexy hype.
I say it a lot but the best place to make money is in unsexy markets, and outside London there are a shed load of unsexy markets desperate for young start ups to dive in.
Don't get me wrong, there are some incredible companies in London doing amazingly well but there is a lot of dross too.
They did take objective measures, via polysomnography. It's one of the novel aspects of this study. Interesting that perceived difficulty getting to sleep after gaming was greater than that recorded via the polysomnography.
Yes blue light inhibits melatonin release, although to my knowledge there is still very little reliable research on in-situ, naturalistic use of devices on sleep.
Agreed that this is a small sample; however the use of both subjective and objective measures is a step forward.
Thanks so much! Sounds fascinating - what's your service called? Would love to see how you've approached that challenge - I know for us it took a lot of iterations!
We're a digital sleep improvement program, clinically proven to help overcome long term poor sleep.
Hiring: CTO, Product Lead, Bus dev. http://www.sleepio.com/jobs
Drop me a line direct if you want to hear more: peter@sleepio.com (co-founder)