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LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., Last year, the investment firm expanded with a $1.7 shortly before 10 a.m.

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Interview with Gary Bishop, Network Automation

socalTECH

We can take all those search results, put them into a spreadsheet, and automatically email it to interested parties. Ironically, I used to pass their offices every day commuting from the Palisades to Calabasas, where I was running Sungard Treasury Systems. How did the company come about, what was the issue you were trying to solve?

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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

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We spoke with Therese Tucker , CEO and founder of the Calabasas firm. They see an almost immediate payback in a month or two on the investment they make in BlackLine. But, the amount of labor that goes into that--not to mention emails, spreadsheets, and disk space--is unbelievable. Therese Tucker: My background is technology.

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