CVENT.COM HAS ROOTS IN HIGH-TECH EVENTS

During the day, Washington, DC-based cor-porate lawyer Reggie Aggarwal negotiated billion-dollar deals for Internet start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. On nights and weekends, he was creating a local coalition for high-tech CEOs from India, for whom he planned 30 meetings a year. So it made sense, after planning meetings for two years for the Indian CEO High-Tech Council, that Aggarwal would found his own Internet company. Cvent.com, a new invitation-style application service provider,