My Journey from Serial Entrepreneur to Movie-Maker: Ashok Rao

TiE NJ-Philadelphia hosts Ashok Rao, the first Indian-American to take a company public in the US. Attend this event to find out about the path-breaking story of a mechanical engineer from IIT-Delhi who became a highly-successful serial entrepreneur and then turned to movie making. Ashok Rao was recently honored with the 2008 APAHA George H. W. Bush Award for Arts Achievement. His latest movie, The Whisperers, starring Rahul Bose, premiered at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York City on October 26, 2008. Come and meet Mr. Ashok Rao on November 12, 2008, and listen to his dynamic story. What are some of the opportunities for an entrepreneur in the largest film industry in the world? Where can you get funding for movies? Who are the venture capitalists interested in investing in film production? What precipitated this mid-career change to movie-making? What are some prerequisites for a successful move to movie-making? Listen to the first-hand account of Ashok Rao, who will share his successful change from being an engineer to a highly successful technology entrepreneur and then found a way to money-making in movie-making!

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