The New Year is quickly approaching.  Most people set up new goals and ideas for the New Year.  Some of those plans and goals might even include opening up a franchised business of your own.  When considering the route to take and the type of business you are looking for there are certainly things that you have to keep in mind.  Not all businesses will succeed and not all types of businesses are as successful as they may have been in the past.  So for the year 2012 which will be here before we all know it, here are some franchise rules and guidelines just for you.

Today, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, best known as founder of the Netscape Web browser in the 1990s, made a statement regarding prolific rumors about a new dot-com bubble.

“”I don’t see a bubble,” Andreessen said.  ”I think people are confusing success with a bubble.  Maybe stuff is just working.”

Maybe stuff is just working, indeed.