Buying a $1.6m Business for the Inventory Value

The world of small business was not unfamiliar to Danyelle Nys. She'd worked in small businesses for years, including at an asphalt business she thought she'd one day run. When that didn't pan out, she started.

Looking for her next thing. And when she discovered she could buy an existing small business, she said to herself and to her fiance and her mother, I can do this and do this. She did not to say that it was easy.

Danyelle had to push through self doubt and limiting beliefs the whole way, including right up until today. She credits a blunt quote by Leila Hormozi to giving her strength when imposter. Syndrome reared its head.

Ultimately, Danyelle acquired a home staging business that plays in Seattle's luxury real estate market. Listen for what she paid the business did 1.6 million in revenue in 2024 under the previous owner. Danyelle quickly started investing in more inventory and people in Decoris is on track to do 2 million in 2025, a 25% increase in Danyelle's first year of ownership.

Here she is. Danyelle Nys, owner of decoris Home Staging welcome to Acquiring Minds, a podcast about buying businesses. My name is Will Smith. Acquiring an existing business is an awesome.

Opportunity for many entrepreneurs and on this podcast I talk to the people who do it. You know Enzo Technologies as one of the leading IT managed service providers serving the search community, led by Nick Akers, an Acquiring Minds guest who bought the 35 year old business.

The team at Inzo regularly works with searchers and their acquisitions and one feature of acquired businesses that Enzo is seeing over and over is the need to implement cybersecurity promptly during the transition. So many acquired small businesses either have glaring vulnerabilities, lack security, best practices, or both. That's step one to de risk.

The deal you just closed should be addressing these issues. INSO is your full service IT MSP for post close stability. They assess your target, surface the biggest risks in plain English and give you a day 1 through 30 plan to cut exposure, prevent downtime and even find cost takeouts like bloated telecom bills.

Check out enzotechnologies.com I N Z O or email Nick directly@nick Zot technologies.com. Danyelle Nys welcome to Acquiring Minds. Thank you. L. Thanks for having me Danyelle.

It was a seminar about buying businesses. That you attended that not only open. Your eyes to this path, but convinced you right there to pursue it.

It was in fact the very same seminar that so impacted another guest. Kin Sio and the hosts of this seminar themselves were guests just the other week. Jake for Faro and Kyle Boyden.

So a very action oriented group of you up there in Seattle. We're looking forward to hearing your story. Danyelle, let's start off with some background on you, please.