Congratulations to the author and he does do a good job of negating the horse I'm about to beat to death, within the article itself.

Unfortunately, most people will just read the title of the post; which I wish the author would have spoken more about how awesome their domain knowledge is (or whatever factor he felt really led to their funding) as _most_ can't just walk up with just a story and land this type of money.

The catch-22 about the title is that it gives people hope, when they should not have any hope, if they think they can replicate his funding story easily.