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"Franchising is a corporate half-way house", says Mr. Joel Libava of Franchise Selection Specialists, Inc. (known as Franpro to us) out of Ohio. He elaborates what he means in his interview on Jim Blasingame's Small Business Advocate Radio Show. Mr. Libava describes how buying a franchise can provide answers to many.

Once on the website, select "Click to Listen" to hear the entire interview.

Author of best-seller The E-Myth, Michael Gerber comments with FranchiseInterviews.com on being a franchise entrepreneur.

NPR's Weekend Edition, May 8, 2004 · National Public Radio's Laura Sydell reports via audio-streaming on a national convention held in Washington, D.C., this week for people who own franchise businesses, or are hoping to. Susan Kezios, president of the American Franchisee Association is briefly interviewed.

NPR states, "There are more than 750,000 franchises in the United States, but there are no statistics on how many go out of business each year."

Not to contradict our esteemed NPR radio broadcaster but Blue MauMau and its members are fascinated with numbers and have collected such statistics here.

Marty McDermott is a university professor with expertise in franchising. He runs a website called Franchise Interviews and hosts an associated radio program.

As you might guess from the title of the website, Marty conducts interviews about franchising.

Consider it a resource worth checking out. His radio program, Franchise Radio, airs live on Thursdays, at 10:00 AM Eastern time, on World Talk Radio.

Andrew Puzder, CKE Restaurants CEO, speaks with CNBC's Fast Money crew (video, 5:02 min) on why investors have shorted CKE and gone long for McDonald's. Puzder says CKE largely corporate owned so operations hit hard by increasing food costs, while McDonald's, who has much higher percentage of franchisees, is cushioned from such food costs because the franchisor takes royalties from the top line.