He has started several small businesses, received multiple patents and is the founder of mysmallbusiness101.com, a small-businesses support seminarseries.
Targeting the education market, Apple and Oracle said they will launch a seminarseries promoting the technology in the top 100 colleges and universities.
The seminarseries is also funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which takes a proactive approach (some would say too proactive) in the debates about religion and science.
"He brought a brand new approach to branding and marketing, " said Esther Muller, an Elliman broker who runs an industry continuing-education seminarseries for about 500 brokers a year.