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Guesstimates for Product Interviews, Tips to ask clarification Questions

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  Photo by  Antoine Dautry  on  Unsplash Guesstimates for Product Interviews, Tips to ask clarification Questions Estimate the number of Hotels | Estimate the number of users of Google Drive Estimate the number of hotels? Clarification Questions Understanding of Hotel Are we also including Airbnb, lodges or only hotels? [Only Hotels] Which geography are we talking about? [Bangalore] Overall Approach Define the area of Bangalore that will be around 600Km². Since there is a national park, a lot of lakes, forests, and wetlands so assuming that around ~50% of the area is there where a potential hotel can reside. So we are looking around an area of 300Km², we can divide this area into 3 parts according to the density, assuming a normal distribution of 25% highly dense for the hotel, 50% mid dense and the rest 25% is low dense. For highly dense that is closely around 75km², for a Km² we can have 5 hotels, that is around 375 hotels. For mid dense(150Km²), on an average, we ...