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Estimate the number of whatsapp messages sent per day?

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Hello PK, I have alredy answered to some of your questions regarding market sizing, they are truly interesting. I believe tought you always have the same flaw: you only consider one of the two big segments (person ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How many electric charging stations are there in Germany?

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Hi there, You have a sound approach. For market sizing questions, I'd recommend you also try and have some fun with ChatGPT. Try asking for several approaches and try to learn from how it chooses to do the sizing diff ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Länge der Autobahn Deutschlands schätzen?

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Hallo Theresa, ich teile sehr gerne meine Gedanken dazu: Angesichts der Tatsachen, dass Autobahnen in Deutschland durchnummeriert sind, die ungeraden Autobahn-Nummern vertikal und die geraden Autobahn-Nummern horizontal ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How to estimate the number of daily bank transfers in a day

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Hi there, You'll learn a lot more from this by trying it out yourself first! Why don't you post your approach here and we can provide commentary? How to approach market sizing It's very simple: Do the approach the is th ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Guesstimate - How many workers did it took to build the pyramids?

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Hi there, Can't believe this actually came up in a real interview! The most comprehensive answer would have to consider the fatality rate of slaves ('workers' is a bit of a euphemism), which is a weird thing to talk abo ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Guesstimate - How many polar bears are there in the world?

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There are many ways to solve this problem, I give one here but it really depends on where the interviewer is going with this case, one way is 1) Restate the case and ask a few pointed questions to give you more data an ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How much paint need for....?

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Hello, I think your approach is fair as you cover the most important steps in these kinds of market sizing: 1. Start with Top-Down and slice the “market” into segments → Narrow down on the one you are interested in 2. F ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Market Sizing Questions: the market size of electric toothbrush in China

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Hi Ruizhi, First of all, it is great to see your consistency in finding out the solution to the question! This is indeed an interesting question which is probably relevant for quite a lot of users, so I am happy to prov ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Market sizing - Q&As

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Ciao valentina, The website doesn't let you to post a personal email, the message is crypted. Feel free to contact me if you need more materials. Buona serata, Luca

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Market sizing question : subway passengers

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Hello, I would propose several ways: 1) You start from the population of the city (12M) and make assumption on a theoritical structure of the demographics : XX% are workers, YY% are students , ZZ% are retired ... T ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Market Sizing Question: Number of Swimming pool in the UK and Hospital Revenue in London

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Hey there For swimming pools Total Pools = # Private Pools + # Public Pools # Private Pools = No. Households who can afford a pool x % Live in A House x % With Pools # Public Pools = Total Population without Poo ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How to estimate 4G and 5G revenue

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As 5G is a big buzz right now in the market, how will we go about estimating 4G and 5G revenue in any country?

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How many miles of road are there in the US?

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Hello! I agree with the overall approach, and it´s very detailed. I agree the numbers end up being a bit high, but this would probably mean that some of the assumptions are overstated. In any case, what the inte ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Estimate the number of houses in the US?

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Hi Piyush, I would not worry too much about your estimation error, a 50% estimation error would not be a big deal, you just need to get magnitude of a number. Interviewer don’t want you to get the exact number, they ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Estimate the number of planes that are in the air in an hour?

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Hello! Your breakdown indeed is good, however, I think you are leaving out another branch of the tree. Basically, you 1st break down into commercial and military, and then discard military. Then, in the commerc ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Estimate the number of videos seen per day on Youtube?

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Hello Piyush, overall agree! The only challenge that I would make is that the assumptions on video consumption are rather low -particularly in your middle segment. Devopping countries, from my experience, do have bett ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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What is the best approach to tackle a guesstimate?

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estimate the number of employee of any nationalized bank?

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Hi Rajesh, I would divide the problem into 2: - Branches: starting from the revenue estimate the number of clients and then of branches in the country. Assume 10 people for an average brach - Headquarter: starting from ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Guestimate: How would you estimate the number of commercial properties in a given city?

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I would use the population although it will be very sensitive to many assumptions. It looks very difficult to make meaningful assumptions in terms of land size. Cheers Serhat

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Market Sizing Question (interview): Sales of Lipstick in the US

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Anonym A gab die beste Antwort am 21. Sept. 2017

[Pop US] * [% Female] * [% use makeup] * [% use lipstick] * [# of lipsticks they own] * [1/avg lifetime before finished or stop using] * [$ per lipstick] E.g. 300m people * 50% female * about 60% would use make up ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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