Daily Strength
DailyStrength
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| DailyStrength | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | August 3, 2006 |
| Headquarters |  Los Angeles, USA |
| Key people | Doug Hirsch, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Lars Nilsen, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Josh DeFord, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer |
| Employees | 20 (2007) |
| Slogan | People Powered Healthcare |
| Website | dailystrength.org |
| Type of site | social networking |
| Launched | August 3, 2006 |
| Current status | active |
DailyStrength is a social networking website where users share emotional support and discuss their struggles and successes with a wide variety of medical, psychological and general life challenges. [1] As of November 4, 2007, DailyStrength has created over 500 support groups [2] focused on issues such as depression, divorce, parenting, and a wide variety of cancers.
The company was founded on August 3, 2006 by Doug Hirsch [3], Lars Nilsen and Josh DeFord and has offices in Los Angeles and Santa Cruz, California, USA. Hirsch was one of the first employees at Yahoo [4] and previously built products for online communities there and at Facebook.[5] Hirsch founded the company in response to his own difficulties dealing with a death in his family as a teenager. [6]
Over the six-month period ending June 2007, DailyStrength’s market share increased by 95%, with the average user spending over 26 minutes on the site.[7] As of September 2007, DailyStrength had 14,000 average daily visitors, each spending 82 minutes on the site and each viewing approximately 145 pages. [8]
References
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/07/daily-strength-online-support-groups-and-aggregate-treatment-info/ TechCrunch November 7, 2006
- ^ http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/337891_websites05.html Seattle Post Intelligencer
- ^ http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_6956968 The Mercury News September 21, 2007
- ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/07/daily-strength-online-support-groups-and-aggregate-treatment-info/ TechCrunch November 7, 2006
- ^ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116717686202159961.html Wall Street Journal December 27, 2006
- ^ http://www.entrepreneur27.org/archive/interview-with-doug-hirsch-of-daily-strength Entrepreneur 27 December 13, 2006.
- ^ http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/ Hitwise
- ^ http://www.comscore.com/ Comscore Key Measures Report for Health Media
External Links
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