Co-founder and general partner at Hustle Fund, prolific explainer of how seed VCs actually decide.
Yin documents raising Hustle Fund I with funnel numbers: hundreds of LP conversations, conversion rates, and tactics. Fundraising for a fund mirrors a startup raise, and she shows the whole pipeline including the rejections.
Plain-language breakdown of what pre-seed, seed, and A actually mean now, what each stage's investors expect, and how round sizes and expectations have drifted from the labels.
Launch post for Raise Millions, Hustle Fund's free book-length compilation of tactical fundraising guidance drawn from thousands of pre-seed pitches; the post links the full free resource.
Hustle Fund GP Elizabeth Yin takes live pitches from real founders and gives unfiltered feedback in real time, explaining her actual investment thought process as she reacts to each pitch.
Hustle Fund's Elizabeth Yin on her high-volume portfolio strategy, how tiny first checks change the founder-VC dynamic, and her outlook on seed fundraising.
Elizabeth Yin's three concrete tips for raising a Silicon Valley seed round as an outsider, from her experience as both a funded founder and a fund GP.
A former founder turned pre-seed VC (20,000+ pitches reviewed) explains the questions investors actually ask, and the underlying reason behind each one, so founders are never blindsided in meetings.
Yin unpacks the rise of tiny angel checks: who writes $1K checks, why they aren't a waste of cap table space, and how operators-turned-micro-angels change early round construction.
Yin argues investors over-index on TAM slides while founders under-argue market pull and go-to-market, and explains what she actually wants to see instead of a top-down market-size number.
A short thread on what actually gets hard after the seed closes: shifting from founder heroics to team-building, and setting up the metrics trajectory the Series A will be judged on.