High School Students lecture at Yale Entrepreneurial Institute           

New Haven Connecticut – July 9, 2008 - In an interesting twist of events, three recent graduates from Cheshire Academy, a High School in Cheshire, Connecticut, gave a lecture to students from Yale University at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI).

The high school students, Jesse Youngblood, Steve Abbagnaro, and Praveen Savalgi, were invited to YEI to tell the story of a software product that they had developed over the past 18 months.  The product, called tooble, is a free software utility that puts video from the popular YouTube website onto iPods and other mobile devices.   The program, which started as an independent study project, has blossomed into a full-fledged software company that boasts the accumulation of more than 250,000 users in less than 6 months.

The software became popular after the students exhibited it at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco this January.   The Yale University students were very interested in hearing how these three high school students managed to turn an idea into a hit piece of software in such a short time.   Following the well-received lecture, the presenters were bombarded with questions from eager Yalies as to how they acheived their success.

The company was founded in 2006 by Dave Cook as a research and development business. It evolved into the success it is today after Sue Heintz, the teacher of the Cheshire students, introduced them.  The company has since been able to attract the interest of a group of investors, and has raised enough capital to see them through the next phase of development.

The amazingly popular software is available for free at the tooble website, http://tooble.tv for both Macintosh and Windows computers.  A video of the lecture at Yale is available on both the tooble website and YouTube.