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IBMC made a strategic guideline to help universities start the BMC qualifier competition on their campus. The detailed documentation can be downloaded here<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-71fb2125-e12f-622d-1571-d0a222c2c86c"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: [httpbaseline; white-space:pre-wrap;">The organizers of the International Business Model Competition encourage the development of similar competitions</span></www.businessmodelcompetition.comspan></uploads/5/1/5/7/5157318/_creating_a_university_competitionspan><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: small;">at schools throughout the world.doc Download Guideline]Business model competitions transform student entrepreneurs' perspectives, helping them learn a more effective approach to entrepreneurship that dramatically increases their chances of success. In summaryEven if your school already holds a business plan competition, the guideline discussed three topics:experience has shown that holding a BMC before or in conjunction with a business plan competition or new venture competition leads to significantly better businesses.</span>

Creating a university <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-71fb2125-e12f-622d-1571-d0a222c2c86c"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Universities interested in hosting their own qualifier competition requires must have a group full-time faculty or staff that will hold the position of leaders that include at least one faculty adviser and one student competition director. The next primary objective is securing funding for the event and building to insure the rest longevity of the competition. It is also strongly recommended that this director leverage an existing student club or assemble a teamof student leaders to run the competition. To assist If would like to start a qualifier competitionscompetition at your school or have an existing competition serve as an IBMC Qualifier Competition, the IBMC has several resources available through Dropboxsend an email to </span>[mailto:businessmodelcompetition@gmail.com <span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">businessmodelcompetition@gmail.com</span>]<span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The school representative need to contact the </span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-71fb2125-e12f-622d-1571-d0a222c2c86c"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IBMC or one of its administrators to request access made a strategic guideline to help universities start the filesBMC qualifier competition on their campus. To ask for any additional resources, an applicant The detailed documentation can contact be downloaded here: </span>[http://www.businessmodelcompetition@gmail.com/uploads/5/1/5/7/5157318/_creating_a_university_competition.doc <span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Download Guideline</span>]<span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span><div><br/></div>