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SAN JOSE, Calif.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--The US Market Access Center (US MAC), a Silicon Valley based incubator and leader in global market entry programs, today announced a new partnership with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), to assist Singaporean entrepreneurs in expanding their businesses into the global market place.

Building off the launch of the US Market Access Center and IDA’s iStart@Silicon Valley (iStart@SV) program in 2010, and following a rigorous selection process, the US MAC will spend a total of four weeks in Singapore training emerging Singapore technology companies in the Kauffman FastTrac® entrepreneurial education program . A hands-on program that gives entrepreneurs the tools they need to plan, manage and run their companies, a typical Kauffman FastTrac® session includes facilitated discussions and activities, networking, small peer groups, a guest speaker and coaching sessions. Participants work on their own business ventures throughout the program.

Finalists will receive an established, comprehensive educational program in a highly professional classroom environment that has been taught to over 300,000 students. There is no faster or better way to accelerate the process of starting a company and taking that company global.

“This partnership is an innovative step forward in addressing a critical challenge for emerging technology companies,” said Omar Mencin, CEO of the US Market Access Center. “It also signifies a major step in expanding the global footprint of the US Market Access Center as well as the growing internationalization of the technology industry as a whole. IDA is one of our most valued partners and we are very excited to be working with them in Singapore, as well as in the United States.”

Alana Muller, President of Kauffman FastTrac, added that, "the US Market Access Center's commitment to advancing the global economy is in direct alignment with Kauffman FastTrac's focus on providing a portal to the entrepreneurial ecosystem for aspiring and existing business owners. We are proud to include US Market Access Center among our worldwide network of affiliates.”

For over fifteen years, the U.S. Market Access Center has worked with more than eight hundred companies from fifty countries. Its mission is to help overseas technology companies successfully do business in Silicon Valley. In the last eighteen months, they’ve begun to broaden and expand the mission beyond Silicon Valley to provide in-country training, mentoring and consulting to emerging technology companies around the world.

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