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Nine Entertainment has invested $4 million into Australian online shoe retailer StyleTread,startupsmart reports. The company is only six months old. We don’t normally report on individual investments at The Next Web, but this news is more evidence that we’re seeing the beginning of a large-scale tech boom in Australia, where some of the world’s great bootstrapped startups have based themselves for years — includingEnvato, task management giantRemember the Milk,SitePointandDesignCrowd. The boom is being driven by foreign investors, and to some extent local investors such as Nine Entertainment, who are beginning to plough money into an industry that has traditionally been wary of venture capitalists and all that funding entails....

This is the fourth in a series on Stylish Entrepreneurs (sponsored by Gillette!). And since our Entrepreneur Channel Editor and Co-Founder ofThe Next Web,Boris Veldhuijzen Van Zantenis currently soaking up the sun on the Mediterranean in Andalusia, Spain, I’m going to be guest blogging this week. When our Editor-in-Chief, Zee M. Kane asked me to take a look at the fashionable entrepreneurs in the world naming gentleman like Sean Parker and Kevin Rose, I thought, well who could possibly be more fashionable than our very own Boris?...

This is the sixth in a series on Stylish Entrepreneurs (sponsored byGillette!). For this one we’ve chosen venture capitalist, private equity principal, company advisor, and entrepreneurChris Saccawho has a special flair for consumer web, mobile, wireless technology startups and looking good. Sacca is an advisor and investor to a slew of companies includingMotionDSP, Someecards, Lookout, International Creative Management, Tipjoy, bit.ly, Twilio, Gowalla, Posterous,RescueTime, Twitter, Heroku, path, ,FanBridge, Poll Everywhere, Universal Record Database andHello Chair....

This is the third of our series of Stylish Entrepreneurs (sponsored byGillette, yeah!). I’m going to take a closer look at the personal branding of some famous technology entrepreneurs. Who exactly? Well,Steve Jobs,Kevin Rose, Ryan Carson and some other names you should be familiar with. Today’s geek looks like a crossover betweenChris Isaakand Hugh Jackman, but with serious geek cred: This guy didn’t just ‘invent’ Twitter. He also foundedSquare, arguably the hottest start-up out there outside of Twitter and Facebook....

This is the first of a series on Stylish Entrepreneurs (sponsored byGillette, yeah!). I’m going to take a closer look at the personal branding of some famous technology entrepreneurs. Who exactly? Well,Steve Jobs, Kevin Rose, Ryan Carson and some other names you should be familiar with. In this episode I’m taking a closer look at Kevin Rose. Known as much for his entrepreneurial activities as his rockstar status I think he is a suitable candidate to follow-up last weeks post about Steve Jobs....