[October 30, 2007]

Docstoc Goes Live, Becomes YouTube for Professional Documents; Unlimited Resource for Free Legal and Business Documents

(Market Wire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) BEVERLY HILLS, CA, October 30 / MARKET WIRE/ --

Docstoc.com has opened in public beta,
becoming the first online community providing a library of high quality
professional documents, forms, templates, presentations, and spreadsheets.
Users can find and share any document and organize and access their files
with online storage for access anytime, anywhere.

To get things kicked off, Docstoc will give away an Apple iPod Touch every
week for the month of November to the user who uploads the most
professional documents each week. Users can check their status in real
time, by going to the "docsters" page and clicking on "most uploads."

Similar to YouTube(TM) and Flickr(TM), Docstoc harnesses the power of user
generated content (UGC) to provide a one-stop source for professional
documents that can be shared freely, discovered quickly, and organized for
easy access. Docstoc is the place to go for all content related to
business, legal, technology, financial, educational, and creative work, as
well as many other professional services industries.

Docstoc makes it easy to find, share, and access any type of content. Users
can easily search by categories or by keywords, filter search results by
views, downloads, ratings and comments, preview the documents online, and
download or store content in online personal file folders for free.

Each user on Docstoc has a profile to facilitate sharing and conversations
-- social/professional networking is geared around content instead of just
contacts. Professionals can receive immediate and objective feedback on the
value of their documents and also forge potential business relationships
and referral traffic.

Docstoc integrates the most useful features of private online file storage
with the ability to store, categorize, and share content found anywhere on
the Web. Users can upload their files and mark them public or private,
categorize docs in their own personalized directories, organize the files
into folders, send documents to their online storage, and share with
trusted contacts or the entire community. People can also request content,
by keywords or categories, and have it delivered via email.

Files can be added online through email attachments or bulk uploading.

"Vast amounts of professional resources lie dormant and hidden away on each
of our personal computers. Imagine if we all began to share that
information with the world in an easily accessible, free environment,"
observed Jason Lawrence Nazar, Docstoc Founder.

Links:

Contest - http://www.docstoc.com/promos/launch/

Leaderboard - http://www.docstoc.com/Docs/membersearch.aspx

Screenshots -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/futureworks/sets/72157602796724866/

Example - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/15772

About Docstoc.com

Docstoc was founded by Jason Nazar in 2006 and has been in private beta and
further development since November. Nazar recently graduated from the
Pepperdine School of Law with his JD/MBA. He was a partner in Venature,
LLC, a venture consulting firm in Los Angeles. He is joined by Alon
Shwartz, an experienced technologist who most recently headed up product
development for a division of MySpace.

The company's recent Series A funding included Scott Walchek, the early
stage VC in Baidu, Brett Brewer, one of the co-founders of Intermix Media,
the parent company of MySpace, and Robin Richards, the founding president
of MP3.com.

Contact:
Brian Solis
FutureWorks
408-428-0895 x101Email Contact

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