The document presents a forecast for growth in the subscription base of the social networking site Facebook for the months of November, December, and January. It summarizes the founding of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg and others in 2004. Using the least squares method of forecasting technique and collecting data, the presentation estimates that the number of Facebook users will be 619.155 million in November 2010, 647.365 million in December 2010, and 675.575 million in January 2011.
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1. BUSINESS
FORECASTING
TECHNIQUES
PRESENTATION ON
FUTURE INCREMENT IN SUBSCRIPTION BASE
FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE
IN THE MONTHS NOV.,DEC.,JAN.
4. FEW FACTS ABOUT THE COMPANY
FOUNDED IN 2OO4 BY
Mark Zuckerberg
Chris Hughes
Dustin Moskovitz
Eduardo Saverin
These 4 were college roommates
and computer science students at
harvard university.
5. GROWTH OF THE COMPANY
THE GROWTH OF THE COMPANY HAS BEEN
PHENOMENAL IN TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
FROM HARVARD TO HIGH SCHOOLS AND
THEN CAPTURING THE WHOLE WORLD.
FACEBOOK IS THE MOST POPULAR SOCIAL
NETWORKING SITE TODAY.
IF WE TAKE A LOOK ON THIS YEARS GROWTH
ITS NOT LOOKING DOWN .JUST UP & UP.
8. FORECASTING TECHNIQUE
LEAST SQUARE METHOD HAS BEEN USED.
The method of least squares is a standard
approach to the approximate solution of
overdetermined systems i.e. sets of equations in
which there are more equations than unknowns.
"Least squares" means that the overall solution
minimizes the sum of the squares of the errors
made in solving every single equation.