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cdmoyer on Oct 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the T...

It's definition 2a[1] on merriam-webster.com.

  a : to obtain by energetic activity <hustle up new customers>

Seems like a pretty common use of the term in the sense of "that scrappy start-up showed quite a bit of hustle to pull it off."

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hustle

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