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Are any of these the Web's next big thing? - CNN.com
Paris, France (CNN) -- With more than 2,000 Internet movers and shakers, the LeWeb conference in Paris is an ideal spot for start-up ventures to hoping to attract the investment and attention that will propel them to Twitter or Facebook-style success. A series of stalls across the venue -- a giant arts complex converted from a disused morgue -- saw fresh-faced entrepreneurs demonstrating gadgets and applications they insisted will change the way we interface with the Internet. These might just be the inventions that everyone will be talking about next year or they could simply slip below the radar.This week, cloud-based customer service tool Zendesk celebrated their 5000th customer since launching their European Head Office in London one year ago. Yesterday we visited their official office opening party and had the opportunity to interview the CEO of Zendesk, Mikkel Svane ! With an impressive customer list of big corporations such as GroupOn, MSNBC.com, Lonely Planet and Sony Music, to SMEs and other startups such as Dropbox, Zendesk has grown to having over 15,000+ companies as part of their customer portfolio.
