Market Sizing: TAM, SAM, SOM

Market sizing estimates the total potential sales or demand for a product or service in a specific market, helping businesses understand the size of the opportunity they aim to capture. But how do you begin to put this together? In this article we break it down for you.
Market Sizing: TAM, SAM, SOM
An example market sizing

What is Market Sizing?

Market sizing is estimating the total potential sales or demand for a product or service in a specific market, helping businesses understand the size of the opportunity they aim to capture. You can do this from a top-down or bottom-up (recommended) basis.

Market sizing is important as it demonstrates that your startup has a big enough market to be attractive for you and potential investors. There are a number of different ways to size your market, but the most common approach is to consider total addressable market (TAM), serviceable addressable market (SAM) and serviceable obtainable market (SOM).

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