Cartezia, the digital business builder and Digital People Network,
a community network for digital entrepreneurs, held their first
event, ‘Weathering the Storm’ in London as a partnership this week.
The idea behind the partnership is to allow digital entrepreneurs
and venture capitalists to meet and make contacts.
Digital People Network was founded in 1997. It has to date run
monthly events, however ‘Weathering the Storm’ was the first
combined event. Rupert Hart, co-founder of Digital People with Doug
Laughlen explains the rationale behind the partnership:
"...to continue to benefit our members we
must continue to evolve. There is a flight to quality throughout
e-business and the volunteer or non-profit network model no longer
works so well. We decided it was time to bring in professional
fulltime management. A partnership with Cartezia, who have done
great things for our community in the past, is the perfect way to
take Digital People Network forward. I have great hopes for further
expanding Digital People’s unique richness of entrepreneur
experience."
Cartezia was also founded in 1997 by Uday Phadke, the company’s
CEO. He believes that ‘by combining Cartezia’s and Digital People’s
networks of contacts and powerful industry knowledge, we can offer
real benefit to entrepreneurs.’
The real question is to what extent this new partnership will
tread on First Tuesday’s toes, particularly at a time when First
Tuesday’s fortunes are down.
