Conditionals
Which sentence describes a past regret / failure?
A) If we had a bigger team, we would launch faster.
B) If we had hired a senior engineer, we wouldn't have missed the deadline.
B — Third Conditional)
You are presenting financial projections to VCs. Which verb sounds most professional and realistic for a planned forecast?
A) Our revenue will reach $1M next quarter.
B) Our revenue should reach $1M next quarter.
B — should показывает расчетное ожидание по модели
Choose the correct Passive form for a product update:
A) Our new feature was release yesterday.
B) Our new feature was released yesterday.
B) Our new feature was released yesterday.
You are re-telling the VC's words to your CTO. Choose the correct option:
Direct: “We will review your term sheet.”
A) The VC said they will review our term sheet.
B) The VC said they would review our term sheet.
B — Backshift
Which sentence focuses on a concrete completed metric / number?
A) We have been pitching to investors all month.
B) We have held 20 pitch meetings so far.
B — Present Perfect
Раскройте скобки для анализа гипотезы в настоящем:
If an investor (offer) ______ us $1M today, we (expand) ______ to the US market immediately.
offered / would expand
If an investor offered us $1M today, we would expand to the US market immediately.
Вставьте подходящий модальный глагол (might, should, can't) по смыслу:
“Our main competitor ______ copy this feature within two months (potential risk), but they ______ release an AI agent this year because they lack training data (impossible).”
might / can't
Раскройте скобки в пассивном залоге (Present Perfect Passive):
“Over $2M (raise) ______ in our Seed round, and three patents (file) ______ so far.”
has been raised / have been filed
Сделайте резкий вопрос инвестора вежливым переговорочным вопросом:
Direct: “What is your burn rate?”
Diplomatic: “Could you tell me what your burn rate is? ''— прямой порядок слов
Раскройте скобки (процесс vs. результат):
“Our team (develop) ______ this AI agent for 5 months, and we (reach) ______ $10k in MRR.”
has been developing / have reached
Найдите и исправьте ошибку в питче:
“If our founders wouldn't have changed the strategy last year, the company would go bankrupt.”
If our founders hadn't changed... the company would have gone bankrupt.
Сделайте категоричное заявление фаундера безопасным и гибким:
“Integrating this LLM will reduce response time by 50%.”
...could / should / might reduce response time...
Переделайте предложение, чтобы сместить фокус с команды на продукт/технологию:
“Our lead engineer fine-tuned the model on open-source datasets.”
The model was fine-tuned on open-source datasets.
Передайте косвенный вопрос с if:
Direct VC Question: “Have you signed any enterprise contracts yet?”
$\rightarrow$ Reported: The investor wanted to know if we had signed any enterprise contracts yet.
Исправьте ошибку в предложении о партнерстве:
“We have been knowing our lead angel investor since we joined the incubator.”
We have known... — Stative verb know не используется в Continuous
Переделайте факт о компании в гипотезу (Second Conditional):
Fact: "Our product is complicated, so we lose non-tech customers."
Hypothesis: "If our product..."
If our product were / was simpler, we wouldn't lose non-tech customers.
Найдите и исправьте ошибку в бизнес-прогнозе:
“We tested our server load yesterday. It must to hold up to 100k users during the launch.”
It should hold / must hold up — убрать to
Найдите ошибку в отчете для инвесторов:
“All customer data is encrypted by default, but the security audit hasn't completed yet.”
...hasn't been completed yet.)
Найдите две ошибки в отчете сооснователю:
“I asked the partner why did they rejected our pitch, and he replied that they are not investing in AI this quarter.”
..why they rejected... and he replied that they were not investing...
1. Составьте вопрос к стартаперу о продолжительности процесса работы с клиентами.
2. Составьте вопрос к стартаперу о продолжительности процесса привлечения инвестиций.
1. How long have you been negotiating with enterprise clients?
2. How long have you been pitching to venture capitalists?
Составьте одно сложное предложение, объединив две ситуации:
Вы не привлекли инвест-раунд в 2024 году (прошлое).
Из-за этого вы НЕ разрабатываете новый ИИ-инструмент сейчас (настоящее).
Mixed Conditional: If we had raised the round in 2024, we would be developing our new AI tool now.
Инвестор спрашивает: "What happens if OpenAI lowers its prices by 80%?"
Ответьте инвестору в одном предложении, используя could (для возможности) и might (для риска).
That could significantly lower our operational costs, but it might also attract more competitors to our niche.
Составьте короткий 3-компонентный питч о вашем стартапе полностью в Passive Voice, используя слова: deploy, test, approve.
Our core algorithm has been deployed, all edge cases were tested last week, and our security compliance was approved by auditors.
Перескажите эти слова фаундера партнерам в косвенной речи:
Direct: “We are scaling our engineering team, and we have already raised $300k.”
The founder mentioned that they were scaling their engineering team and added that they had already raised $300k.
Составьте одно предложение для инвесторского отчета, используя оба времени:
1. Длительный процесс улучшений.
2. Конкретный результат по пользователям к этому моменту.
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translate: точка безубыточности )))
We have been optimizing our onboarding flow for three weeks and have already gained 1,000 active users.
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break-even point