How I Raised $55M Of Venture Capital In Two Months

"you can do it too" should be rephrased as "you can do it too if you have my kind of connections". Good advice for hustling things along, but only if you are already solidly "in the game".

Not quite sure when he joined elance but with big names like John Doerr and Ram Shriram behind him already - the post is hardly surprising.

I'd love to hear how someone with lesser traction or brand name VCs raised cash and how it took them 10 months.

While I was blabbing on and on about whether we should take more, or from whom we should include in the round, Bill said, “Take the (blank) money.” From that day, I have advised the same to every company I’ve since worked with.

I'm not sure that this is great advice. If you don't have a conceivable use for the money taking too much could kill you thanks to the expectations that are attached to said finance.