Elizabeth Yin 💛
@dunkhippo33
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Co-founder @hustlefundvc. Building a hippocorn company -- market size unknown. Democratizing wealth via entrepreneurship. SF Bay Area native.
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Joined May 2008
Personal update: on building a meritocracy in our startup ecosystem - Happy New Year! I am so excited and...
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Wow. 👏 Claude ran a grow tent and kept a tomato plant, Sol, alive. A small computer, the Arduino, reads sensors for light, soil moisture, temp, and humidity, then follows Claude’s written instructions to control lights, heater, fan, and pump. Arduino flips the correct relay
Claude can code- but can claude grow?! 🪴 So far the answer is YES. Claude is successfully keeping a living organism ALIVE. There were some hiccups this week! Some errors and resets, but Claude managed to power through and take care of Sol 🍅 A week in review:
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Are you a runner in NYC? Join the Central Park daily challenge:
daily.nyc
Run the Central Park loop and compete for daily prizes. The fastest male and female times each day win $100.
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2- Wanna join the fun behind the scenes? Be part of the team! Apply for the HF Ambassador Program:
hustlefund.typeform.com
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
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1- Batter Up X H-On Dream = founder showcase and feedback session featuring founders from Korea pitching to a US investor audience . Founder Friends = vibes, connections, and real convos with other founders. Camp Hustle = an oasis for investors Sign up today (most of these
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Hustlers & investors! Fun events: 🇺🇸 San Fransisco, California on January 8, 2026 - Batter Up X H-On Dream SF! 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea on January 20, 2026 - Founder Friends Seoul 🇺🇸 Saratoga, California on May 11, 2026 - Camp Hustle 2026 RSVP:
hustlefund.vc
We promise that they won't waste your time. Just good humans, good learnings, and maybe a few good laughs.
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1- This event is going to be one for the books. Hosted by Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation and MYSC - thank you!
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SF investors, join us at Batter Up x H-On Dream SF on January 8th! We're bringing Korean founders onstage to pitch their startups, get feedback from a panel of investors, and eat some za🍕. RSVP here: https://t.co/FH4yBleMSg
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2- Wanna join the fun behind the scenes? Be part of the team! Apply for the HF Ambassador Program:
hustlefund.typeform.com
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
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1- Batter Up X H-On Dream = founder showcase and feedback session featuring founders from Korea pitching to a US investor audience . Founder Friends = vibes, connections, and real convos with other founders. Camp Hustle = an oasis for investors Sign up today (most of these are
hustlefund.vc
We promise that they won't waste your time. Just good humans, good learnings, and maybe a few good laughs.
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Founders + investors! It's almost the new year and we throwing tons of amazing event in 2026: 🇺🇸 San Fransico, California on January 8, 2026 - Batter Up X H-On Dream SF! 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea on January 20, 2026 - Founder Friends Seoul 🇺🇸 Saratoga, California on May 11, 2026 -
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Cursor and MintMCP are partnering to help enterprises govern their coding agents through Cursor's new hooks program. Engineering orgs are rapidly increasing their use of Model Context Protocol in coding workflows. But most orgs have no visibility into what's actually installed,
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Robotics doesn't need to be boring! 😴 Just imagine, you're an only child, you have no one to play football with. Then this fella comes in and you can train your dribbling skills as long as you want (or as long as the battery lasts). Anyway, pretty awesome robot for
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Boston Dynamics has built the most iconic robots of the past years. But behind the viral clips lies a 30-year journey. From an MIT research lab to BigDog, Alphabet, Spot and Stretch, and now electric Atlas. 🧵 This is the real story.
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Awesome partnership between Cursor and MintMCP!
Cursor and MintMCP are partnering to help enterprises govern their coding agents through Cursor's new hooks program. Engineering orgs are rapidly increasing their use of Model Context Protocol in coding workflows. But most orgs have no visibility into what's actually installed,
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Congrats to the @truemed team!
Today, 90%+ of healthcare spend (all $4.5T of it) goes towards treating chronic conditions after someone is sick. Less than 3% of that spend goes towards prevention. @Truemed exists to get more people investing in True Medicine. Exercise, food, supplements, movement, sleep,
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Even if you’re out of money but you still believe in your startup, there’s always a path to keep going. You can get a job and run it on the side. You can rotate the CEO position with a friend. You can reduce to a skeleton crew. Many iconic companies have done something like
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Half the battle in building a startup is figuring out how to stop caring about what other people think. How you fare against other founders and their startups’ growth. What your investors might think. What future investors might think.
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Investors! We're starting the new year with a banger. On January 8th, we're bringing you Batter Up x H-On Dream SF! If you've been to Batter Up before, you know the drill: founders pitch, investors give real feedback, everyone learns. But we're doing things a little different
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The holidays are a really good time to reflect on the year and plans for 2026. Slow thinking can often change the trajectory of your company.
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