HomeAway nurtures student startups to mine vacation rental features
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HomeAway is making use of resources in its own backyard and furthering the ambitions of student travel-startups that could end up helping HomeAway's vacation rental business.
Austin-based 3 Day Startup has launched a new program that takes its student brainpower inside Austin companies.
Last spring, HomeAway opened its downtown headquarters to 40 students, who spent a weekend creating startup businesses related to the travel industry.
The goal was for them to build something that could ultimately partner or be acquired by HomeAway, which operates the world's leading netw