When Eric Bahn, Elizabeth Yin and Shiyan Koh set out to launch Hustle Fund in 2017, they felt well-positioned for success. Friends from Stanford University, they brought experience from accelerator 500 Startups, Instagram and NerdWallet, and their approach — writing $25,000 checks to startups and performing due diligence after the fact — seemed like a novel twist on traditional venture capital. They were in for a shock