TOOL: Identifying Your Market
As part of our support for the entrepreneur community, Rev1 offers tools and tips that we think will be valuable to our audience. As part of the tools series, we review tools that are helpful along the startup journey.
Identifying your market with key terms
Investors look for companies that have significant market opportunity. Business plans are measured and evaluated based on the size and potential of the market that the startup can capture. That’s why identifying your market, and understanding the TAM, SAM, SOM methodology is so important for entrepreneurs, as we discuss in-depth here.
Your TAM, SAM, and SOM is an element of a larger mosaic of market validation.
Validating the market in this way is key to a successful business plan. After determining TAM and SAM, which will help validate your market, your SOM becomes important. (Stay tuned for our upcoming SOM tool.)
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