Back at the start of December I went to my first Ignite Seattle event.  For those that haven't heard of Ignite, it's was started in Seattle back in 2006 by Brady Forrest, and has since spread to dozens of cities throughout the world.  At Ignite events, speakers get five minutes on stage to talk about a topic of their choice which they are passionate about. To further add to the pressure of speaking in front of hundreds of people you have a slide deck of 20 slides, auto rotating every 15 seconds.

There was about a dozen speakers that evening, but the first presentation by budding iPhone entrepreneur Eugene Lin was exceptional.  Titled "iPhoning my way to retirement $.70 at a time", it was not only very entertaining but provides a great lesson for entrepreneurs on being persistent and adapting your ideas when you run into barriers.  

A video of the presentation was just posted YouTube, and is well worth five minutes of your time.