Why not create www.startupnews.com? If you want the code, google 'reddit clone'. I think the lisp community wrote atleast a dozen reddit clones after reddit switched from lisp to python.

I say this because a lot of people have a problem with the change from a startup focused to a hacker focused site.

Since you already have a community which is united around a common vision, it's probably worth acting now and create another site.

The lisp hackers did a similar thing when reddit moved from lisp to python. For some reason they thought that reddit was only for lisp hackers. BTW, I don't think that worked as most lisp hackers were already active on cll or #lisp