The technology industry is famously a young sector. Among others, Google, the internet search company, Dell, the computer retailer, and Facebook, the social networking site, were founded by college kids in their dorms.

Maybe it is the combination of youthful energy and lack of commitments that explains it, but Calum Brannan, Adam Hildreth and Mike Welch are three members of a generation that has grown up with the internet and all have big ambitions for their young UK-based internet companies.