About First Round Capital Startup News

What is First Round Capital Startup News?

First Round Capital Startup News is a "social news" site inspired by Y Combinator's Startup News and powered by coRank. It's a place where people submit, share, vote and promote stories and websites.

First Round Capital Startup News is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion (whether you know who they are or not), and where you can also find what's interesting from people whose opinion are important to you - whether they know who you are or not.

Everything on First Round Capital Startup News is submitted by First Round Capital Startup News users, and after they submit a story, website, etc. other people will read it and give it a thumb up or down. If that story receives enough positive votes, it is promoted to the front page. But...!

While there are other sites offering similar services, in First Round Capital Startup News each user has their own "front page", and the stories promoted to a user's front page are determined only by the votes of the people this user has previously selected - these are what we call, the user's sources.

Just a friends-driven social content website?

No. Friends are friends - there's mutual consent and it's a reciprocal relationship. In First Round Capital Startup News, when you select who your sources are, you don't need consent from them, and you don't become a sources for them. It is not a reciprocal relationship.

Why sources, why not friends?

Because that's really how the world is when it comes to trusting other people's opinions.

Say there's a guy named Joe Whittman. Say I like how this guy thinks and I notice he has a First Round Capital Startup News account. I would add him as one of my sources right away! I want his opinion count when my "front page" is being shaped up.

But hey, perhaps Joe doesn't even know who I am. Or perhaps he knows me but doesn't care what I think. Should he be forced to add me as one of his "friends" simply because I trust his opinion?

What are the First Round Capital Startup News values?

Four words:

• Share - Submit web pages and stories you find interesting.

• Rank - Vote "up" what you like, or vote "down" what you don't.

• Control - Select only people whose opinion you trust, so you can...

• Discover - ...be informed of web pages that get a better ranking by those people you've selected.

Who's behind First Round Capital Startup News?

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