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How do you calculate the market size of the Food Delivery Service industry?

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Hi Wibi, We are happy to provide you feedback on your solutions. Would you want to try your best solution first? Happy to improve it together. Best Serhat

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How much hand sanitiser was used yesterday in X country?

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Hi there, You'll get the best out of this exercise if you try it yourself and post here for feedback. How to think about Market Sizing It's very simple: Do the approach the is the easiest for you given the question. Are ... (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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How many cell towers in Country X

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Great ideas. For market sizing questions start with understanding what are the drivers behind the demand of the quantity you are estimating are. Then test these with the interviewer and structure your approach based on ... (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: number of customers to an H&M store / day

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Hello, All of your points make sense and those are all questions that you can ask your interviewer at the beginning of the case. Before starting your case, you have to clarify all the boundaries and to agree on some a ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Market sizing: # of white men's t-shirts sold in a year

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Hello Viktoria! I would approach the problem as following: Estimate number of t-shirt per man Estimate percentage of white t-shirt Estimate the "expected life" of a shirt from Zara Number of white t-shirt so ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Market Sizing - Guess the number of rats sold in the US?

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This seems like an interesting one as you could actually make the discussion quite extensive. So this is how I would go about it (if this does not make sense I'd gladly be corrected): At the moment I can see four diff ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Guesstimate Problem asked during a MBB Interview

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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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What's the size of the PS5 market?

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Hi there, Totally wrong approach! (Sorry) What's the point of estimating users of PS3/4? You're going a very veyr indirect route (unless you happen to already know this number) For this case, I would break down wo ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Estimate how many hospital beds for pregnant women are necessary in a year in the US

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Hi there, You'll really get the best out of this exercise if you try it yourself. Why don't you post what you're thinking and we can help? Hint: Do you think this makes more sense top-down or bottom up? Gene ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How many business are in the US?

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Hello How would you start with: how many business are in the US?

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How much restaurants are in Paris?

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Hi there, I presume you mean "How MANY restaurants?" This is a classic market sizing :) Top Down Population of Paris Breakdown by Age and/or Income Segments Estimate frequency of lunch/dinner outings per w ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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When to take into consideration growth rate for market sizing

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Hi there, Great Q - you need to take it into account if we're market sizing outside of one year. That's why it's important to ask clarifying questions before jumping into the market sizing. Figure out if it's an ann ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How to solve these market sizing quantitative question?

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There are many similar questions with useful answers on preplounge already, like below: https://www.preplounge.com/en/consulting-forum/how-would-you-go-about-calculating-how-many-solar-panels-are-used-in-a-country-9 ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Give an estimation of how many Logan cars are in Cluj. Please motivate your answer.

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Hi there, 1) why don't you post your approach here and we comment on it? 2) Search for Guesstimate questions on Preplounge to see the framework and other examples. Hope it helps! GB

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"At any given moment" - How to get there?

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Those questions are nothing more than standard market sizing questions. The reasoning that you need to use is similar to the one you'll use to estimate a market size. For example to determine how many new-yorkers are w ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How to estimate the number of Taxis outside Delhi Airport ?

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First: You MUST clarify if it's at a certain time of day/night. i.e. noon, midnight, etc. Is this at any given point in time? Top-Down Population of Delhi/Surrounding areas residents...subset of which would be fly ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How many second hand wedding dresses are sold in the UK each year?

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UK population (= 60 Mio) # of women (~50% = 30 Mio) those in the marriable age (age group 20-60, i.e. 50% of all women if 80 y.o. is assumed as life expectancy = 15 mio) Out of those women % getting married whil ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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