| Status | Privately Held |
| Website | www.doostang.com |
| Blog | blog.doostang.com |
| Category | Web |
| contact@doostang.com | |
| Address |
200 Sheridan Ave. Suite 103 Palo Alto, CA, 94306 USA |
| Founded | 6/05 |
| Total | $4.5M |
| Angel 1 | $1M |
| Series A, 9/07 2 Shasta Ventures | $3.5M |
Doostang is a social-networking site geared towards individuals seeking career advancement. To this end it offers job listings, forums themed around professional development, and special groups tied to career options and mutual interests. Users post profiles, upload resumes and can post/search for jobs.
Most job posts are open to the entire network, but a select few are only open to members who have invited 20 friends to the service or are part of a particular network within Doostang.
Its main competitor is LinkedIn. Doostang has over 300,000 subscribers as of October 2007.
| Website | doostang.com/forum.asp |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | August 21, 2007 |
| Tags | forums, discussion, forum-discussion |
Doostang Forums allow doostang members to connect with one another in order to help each other find jobs.
| Website | doostang.com/my_groups.asp |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | August 21, 2007 |
| Tags | groups |
Doostang connects members with other members who have similar interests. The reason for groups is to funnel members together in hopes of creating synergies because of common interests.
| Website | doostang.com/jobs.asp |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | August 21, 2007 |
| Tags | jobs |
Doostang has postings of jobs which are supplied by members for other members. This is the way that Doostang members facilitate one another getting jobs.
