Pitching Angels 5: Market Sizing — Ditch the TAM/SAM/SOM

DC Palter
The Startup
Published in
6 min readOct 12, 2020

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After starting your pitch with a simple description of the problem and solution, you have to convince investors there’s a big market for it. This is particularly true for specialized or technical products where investors have no sense of the scale of the problem or even who the intended customers are.

Total Addressable Market / Service Addressable Market / Service Obtainable Market
TAM / SAM / SOM Market Segmentation

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DC Palter
The Startup

Entrepreneur, angel investor, startup mentor, sake snob. Author of the Silicon Valley mystery To Kill a Unicorn: https://amzn.to/3sD2SGH