Re:Ask HN: What is my market size?
by arnorhs on Sunday June 19, 2011 @10:44PM
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IMHO: If you have space in your pitch deck for a slide about market cap, it's probably too long.
Try focusing on the product and your user exclusively. Your pitch deck's most important role is to explain to who ever is reading that there is a problem, how you think you can solve it and why you can do it and not somebody else.
Most people who read a lot of pitch decks would never read the part about market cap because usually the people making the decks overestimate it and don't usually have a clue about the actual MC.
The biggest problem in growth will probably be how you will get distribution, how you will join two separate markets or target audience and that's a really hard problem to solve.
The distribution and chicken'n'egg problem are a much bigger limiting factor than the market cap ever will be in your product, so don't worry about it.
Try focusing on the product and your user exclusively. Your pitch deck's most important role is to explain to who ever is reading that there is a problem, how you think you can solve it and why you can do it and not somebody else.
Most people who read a lot of pitch decks would never read the part about market cap because usually the people making the decks overestimate it and don't usually have a clue about the actual MC.
The biggest problem in growth will probably be how you will get distribution, how you will join two separate markets or target audience and that's a really hard problem to solve.
The distribution and chicken'n'egg problem are a much bigger limiting factor than the market cap ever will be in your product, so don't worry about it.
Good luck!