Most small businesses never reach $1 million in annual sales. Instead, they struggle just to survive. Of businesses started in 2004, barely more than half -- 56 percent -- were still around in 2009, a study from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found.
In fact, cracking the $1 million barrier at any point in a company's lifetime is a major achievement. U.S. Census data from 2007 shows that more than three-quarters of the country's 6 million firms with employees made less than $1 million in revenue. And most solopreneur businesses don't earn anywhere near that much: According to IRS data for 2008, the average solo business brought in less than $60,000.
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