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There are two ways of getting to become involved with the IBMC:

#[[#General_Application|'''Become a participating university<br/>''']] Advertise the competition and encourage the students to apply through a general application process.<br/>#[[#Host_Qualifier_Competitions|'''Become a qualifier competitions host''']] <br/>Apply to be a qualifier competitions hosting university. Building the competition- Build, organizing the competitionorganize, and running run the competition.

== Here is a link to the&nbsp;[http://www.businessmodelcompetition.com/apply---2014.html General Application] ==.

The Business Model Competition, unlike other students based competitions, is open to anyone all participatants who want to participate while meeting meet the [http://www.businessmodelcompetition.com/eligibility-criteria.html Eligibility Criteria]. Thus, bringing Bringing this competition to campus doesn't need establish the necessity to submit any application to BMC or the requirement to establish a local chapter on campus. And at the same timeAlthough, BMC also enforces does enforce a set of rules that ensure the strong representation of students in within the competing teamteams, which makes it very attractive to allowing for the attraction of new students student entrepreneurs.

To apply to the IBMC, the team needs to teams must fill out and submit the application form at the beginning of January. Before doing thatHowever, before submitting the application, they teams also need to do complete the following: #Create a video presentation describing the up-to-date validation and customer discovery with the idea and business model.

#Fill out and sign the Certifications and Agreements, which needs (to be scanned and uploaded in the application form.)

=== [http://www.businessmodelcompetition.com/starting-a-competition.html Host Qualifier Competitions] ===

IBMC also encourages the development of qualifier competitions at other colleges and universities. The winners of these competitions will receive an automatic advancement in the International Competition, while other contenders may still apply through the [[#General_Application|General Application]]. Any college or university interested in hosting a local competition is encouraged to contact businessmodelcompetition@gmail.com

IBMC made a strategic guideline to help universities to start the BMC qualifier competition on their campus. The detailed documentation can be downloaded here: [http://www.businessmodelcompetition.com/uploads/5/1/5/7/5157318/_creating_a_university_competition.doc Download Guideline]. In summary, the guideline discussed three topics:

Creating a university competition requires a group of leaders that includes include at least one faculty adviser and one student director. The next primary objective is securing funding for the event and building the rest of the student team. To assist qualifier competitions, the IBMC also has several resources available through Dropbox. The school representative need to contact the IBMC or one of its administrators to request access to the files. To ask for any additional resource resources, an applicant can contact businessmodelcompetition@gmail.com.