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Peter Dawe is one of the great internet innovators, having created the first UK ISP and growing it into a multi-million multinational company.





1986 - Founded Unipalm, one of the first UK companies to identify TCP/IP as a core technology
1988 - Founded PIPEX the first UK commercial Internet provider.
-First ISP to float on LSE
-First internet Millionaire
1989 - Founded LINX the first European neutral Interconnect
1989 - Co-Founded ISPA
1995 -Founded Internet Watch Foundation
2001 - Awarded OBE for services to internet Industry
2001 - Founded Flute:
- First speculative marine fibre
- First to sell dark fibre
- First to break European tariffs

Unipalm-Pipex was two businesses. PIPEX the ISP and Unipalm a software reseller. While they were both involved with computer networking, their business models were totally different.


If one lives in a system that claims to be a 'free market'; then anything that stops that market working 'freely' introduces 'friction' that reduces the market's efficiency.

 


Simple advice. If you are having to close a company, simply walk away and let the shareholders/creditors/employees sort out the closure. As ever in today's society, doing the 'right thing' is expensive, thankless and risky!


As part of my research into the Wash Tidal barrier, I've come across a company that can grow algae in 'dirty water'. In particular the process needs massive lagoons of fresh or brackish water that have high levels of nutrients. When I approached the company the CEO said that he thought the 'dogmatic environmentalists' would stop any deployment in the UK. His view was that the process was about creating bio-fuel. Our view was that the process was cleaning polluted water.


BabelTV is my vision of how home electronics will converge into a single experience. While the development is virtually complete,  neither investors, channels to market, potential partners or even competitors are willing to invest in the deployment.


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