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                    How Google is rewriting search
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                    Sisters' side hustle leads to millions
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                    How to make press badges drive more sales
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                   Y Combinator (YC), a well-known startup accelerator
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                  that helped launch companies like Reddit, DoorDash and Airbnb, has invested in more than 5,000 startups since 2005. Now YC leaders note that founders seem to be outsourcing writing their applications to AI.
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                  The YC application requires founders to explain how they selected their idea, identify competitors in the space and outline their plans to generate revenue. Some tell-tale signs reveal that many tech-focused founders have recently decided to use AI to write answers to these questions.
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                  One giveaway is the longer responses that AI produces. According to YC partner Tyler Bosmeny, YC applications
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                   have increased in length by 60%
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                  over the past three years. “I wonder what could explain that…” he wrote on X earlier this week.
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                     Destined to Become a Millionaire
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                         Has your business been featured in the press or received an award or other recognition?
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                          Take a second look at where those badges appear on your website.
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                         Most founders bury press badges in the footer, then wonder why the coverage isn’t doing much.
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                          Move them somewhere visitors will actually see them.
                         </span>
                         Here are three spots worth considering:
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                             Start with your pricing.
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                            Price is where most visitors stall, because price is where the brain runs its risk calculation. A short line near the numbers, something like “Featured in” followed by two or three logos, gives a nervous buyer a reason to keep going instead of closing the tab.
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                             Next, your forms
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                            .
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                           Any place where you ask someone to commit — a demo request, a checkout, a “book a call” button — is a place where trust either holds or breaks.
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                             Finally, your boldest claim.
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                           Every business makes one statement that sounds a little too good. “We cut response times in half.” “Our clients double their bookings.” That sentence is where skepticism spikes. Anchor it to a place a journalist covered you, and the claim stops sounding like marketing and starts sounding like a reported fact.
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                          -Insight from a founder and CEO, Ali Raza —
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