Carly Ayres

Carly Ayres is a partner at HAWRAF, a conceptually-focused design studio. She works on Featuring, a newsletter on the intersection of business and culture from Collaborative Fund and i am OTHER.


Winning Big on the American Dream

Lindsay Holden believes in the American dream—the idea that every citizen can achieve success and a happy life through hard…

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Leah Busque’s Biggest Task Yet: Building a Community of Trust

Leah Busque was getting ready to head out the door to dinner with her husband when they realized that they…

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The Business of Good Style

Shirley Kurata was 19 when she decided to move to Paris to study fashion.

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Adventuring with Sawyer, One Kids’ Class at a Time

Marissa Evans Alden was a college student when she started her first company.

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Leveling Up

Ryan Caldbeck wants to level the playing field.

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Hydrating the World

Mike Del Ponte was standing in a puddle of spilled water when he first got the idea for Soma, a…

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Do Your Research Before Changing the World

Shivani Siroya knows what it means to do your research.

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Eliminate the Friction

When life hands Steven van Wel a frustrating problem, he builds a startup.

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Talk It Out

From cave drawings to Snapchatting, the way we communicate with each other has changed a lot.

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Starting up to solve the right problem

When Tristan Walker first heard about Foursquare, he knew that it was something he wanted to be a part of.

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Getting creative within constraints

Photo @MaxJoseph.

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Empowering creativity through mistakes

Photo by Elizabeth Lippman.

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Some good eggs

When Rob Spiro set out to build Good Eggs, he didn’t have a product, a business plan, or even a…

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