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Boulder, CO - University Parent Media introduced The Guide to Colorado State University, Fort Collins in partnership with the Colorado State Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and Parent & Family Programs. The Guide is specifically focused on providing parents with vital university and local information for the upcoming Fall semester. Read more.

University Parent Featured in the NASPA Spring Newsletter. Read more.

University Parent Media today introduced The Guide to Akron in partnership with the University of Akron Office of Orientation. The Guide is specifically focused on providing parents with vital university and local information for the upcoming Spring Orientation sessions. Read more.

University Parent, a company producing magazine-style guides that can help parents visiting students find out where to eat, shop or stay in university towns. CU student Sarah Schupp started the guide in 2003, and BIC helped the company with growth strategies, organizational structure and cash management. Read more.

Sarah Schupp, a finalist in our search for the most promising U.S. entrepreneurs 25 and under, is the founder of a company producing free guidebooks for visiting your kids at college. Read more.

Sarah Schupp, 25, was honored as a finalist for Business Week’s 2007 America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs. In May 2003, she started a publishing company, University Parent Media, while an undergraduate at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Read more.

The Business Opportunities Weblog is a moderated list of legitimate business opportunities for entrepreneurs. It is presented like a weblog with chronological archives and extensive outbound links. Sarah Shupp featured November of 2007. Go to blog.

Early this year, BusinessWeek.com set out on its third annual search to discover the most promising young entrepreneurs in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. The nominees are in. Although it is no surprise that most of them are building businesses around the Web, some have broken into more traditional sectors such as publishing, manufacturing, and investment banking. Read more.

University Parent Media founder Sarah Shupp chats with Business Plus. Included are answers to how the company works and where Sarah sees her company going in the future. Read more.

College students usually ask their parents for help-- not help them. But Sarah Schupp, a 2000 Highland Park High School alumna, has created University Parent, visitor guides for parents with students in college. Read more.

When Sarah Schupp was a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she noticed that visiting parents didn’t get much attention. “I saw that university parents are very undeserved,” she said. “I saw that university parents are very underserved,” she said. “They were the ones making buying and other financial decisions, and the companies couldn’t reach them. There seemed to be a gap in resources.” Read more.