My brother just recently had to close down his company. The stock market crash played a big part in his decision to close the doors. He had been selling computer equipment for the last twenty years and had become very successful with it. He had more than fifty employees, but he had to let them all go.

He had decided to get back to selling system x servers over the internet, which is the way he had started out. When he had more orders for system x servers than he could handle back then, he opened up the office. He only had about five employees at first but with each year, the company grew and grew.

He had estimated that they had sold somewhere in the range of twenty to thirty thousand xseries servers over those twenty years. He knew that if he went back to just being a one man show, that he could still make it work but he may have to work a little harder. If he could just sell one sixteenth of the xseries servers he used to, he could make it since he did not have any of the overhead like he did before. I for one know that he will be just fine and who knows; maybe someday he will be on top again with even more employees.