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Steve Rura - buff!

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Take a look at Steve Rura’s work - it’s stunningly good. Simple, smooth, beautiful. (via KN)

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Revolution over at EvokeONE
Fascinating virtual art exhibition loosely based around the theme of revolution (there are many others including Fable, Calligraphy, Muse, etc) featuring digital design art, music and photography - really, really high quality stuff. Love the music too, unexpectedly! I'll be returning frequently to Evokeone.com if they can keep this up. del.icio.us Tags: design,art,photography,music...
Oxford University launches 2008 venture capital fund for own students
Oxford's business school, the Said Business School, has Venture Capitalist ambitions. It has put together a £1m seed stage venture capital fund, the SBSVF, and is looking to invest in businesses launched by members of the biz school itself, or members of the Oxford Entrepreneurs (OE) network. They're looking to put in £50k to £100,000 to early stage ventures. They did something similar in 2007, and ended up investing in Jambase, a frankly underwhelming live music portal (recommending and reviewing concerts, with none of the elegance or simplicity of the excellent Songkick) after reviewing over eighty applications. The copyright notice on the Jambase  site states that its been around in 1998, so I'm not really sure how that would classify it as a seed stage startup. The money for the fund has been put up by Sir Philip Green and David Bonderman. Philip Green is a giant of the retail space, notably famous for catalysing the turnaround at Marks & Spencers. David Bonderman is a venture capitalist who found the Texas Pacific Group private eq firm. Interestingly, and somewhat fittingly, SBS students are involved in vetting, reviewing and doing due diligence on applicants to the SBSVF. This somewhat betrays its...
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