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Profile: Matt Arnold, Clark Student, '07
HALYARD CLOTHING
 “We’re making it up as we go along, but we’re having a really good
time with it and a lot of fun.” To Matt Arnold, a Clark senior and one
of the founders of Halyard Clothing, having the chance to do something
different everyday and having fun with it, is his motivation for getting
his business started along with the assistant coach of his lacrosse
team, Clark MBA student, Scott Foglietta.
Halyard is a nautical term for a rope that is used for raising or
lowering a sail or flag, and it reflects the style Arnold is trying to
create with his clothing line. He describes Halyard as an island
lifestyle company which will sell t-shirts and polos with a variety of
logos, with hopes of branching out into bathing suits and other clothing
in the near future. The clothing line is geared towards an island
audience: Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, and the British Virgin
Islands. Arnold, a Brookline, Mass. native, compares it with the
venerable island store Vineyard Vines, and thinks it would be great to
one day have their own island store to sell Halyard Clothing.
Arnold, a Management major and International Relations minor, is also
a member of Initial Advantage (IA), the Clark student entrepreneurial
club, and credits the group with playing a large role in helping get the
company started. “They are a brilliant group of people. We bounce ideas
off of each other all day long,” said Arnold.
He will be working with another Clark student business, Interactive
Purchasing Solutions (IPS), to create the first pieces of clothing that
the company will be selling. When asked about what else played a
significant role in the creation of his company, he added that just
having that general drive you find in entrepreneurs has been essential
to turn the idea he had one year ago into the business he is now
launching.
Arnold has a very positive and excited attitude about his
entrepreneurial endeavor. He thinks college is the perfect time to start
something up, and that even if his first try falls short, it has been a
great experience and he definitely has learned a lot from it.
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