DailyStrength
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Los Angeles | location_country = 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
| num_employees = 20 (2007) | company_slogan = People Powered Healthcare | url = dailystrength.org
| screenshot = | caption = | website_type = social networking | launch_date = August 3, 2006 | current_status = activeDailyStrength 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. http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/07/daily-strength-online-support-groups-and-aggregate-treatment-info/ TechCrunch November 7, 2006 As of November 4, 2007, DailyStrength has created over 500 support groups http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/337891_websites05.html Seattle Post Intelligencer 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 http://www.mercurynews.com/localnewsheadlines/ci_6956968 The Mercury News September 21, 2007, 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 http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/07/daily-strength-online-support-groups-and-aggregate-treatment-info/ TechCrunch November 7, 2006 and previously built products for online communities there and at Facebook.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116717686202159961.html Wall Street Journal December 27, 2006 Hirsch founded the company in response to his own difficulties dealing with a death in his family as a teenager. http://www.entrepreneur27.org/archive/interview-with-doug-hirsch-of-daily-strength Entrepreneur 27 December 13, 2006. 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.http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/ Hitwise As of September 2007, DailyStrength had 14,000 average daily visitors, each spending 82 minutes on the site and each viewing approximately 145 pages. http://www.comscore.com/ Comscore Key Measures Report for Health Media
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