Janice Brown started a bus transportation company called Youth On The Move in 2000 to provide transportation for children and adults. She drew on her experience running residential programs and partnering with another bus company. Starting the business was challenging due to financing and hiring qualified employees, but Janice overcame obstacles by growing the business. She hopes to focus the business on one market in the future. Janice's son Malcolm has learned from her example of perseverance in pursuing her dreams through hard work.

1. Youth On The
Move
Owner : Janice Brown
Interviewer: Malcolm Gladden
Business & Society
Management: 100
Instructor: Jennifer Fleury-Lawson

2.  “Youth On The Move” started by Janice
Brown
 Janice Brown is my Mommy we met in 1993
September 2nd about 2 AM, when she birthed
me into this world. From their she has been
in my life as much as I been in hers.
 Youth On The Move is a transportation
company, in the sorts of a bus company that
picks up children and adults and bring them
to the designated destination of their choice.
Introduction

3.  Janice was a simple single women
providing for her family, she had first
worked in Connecticut but soon got tired
of working in Connecticut. She wanted to
do something that was closer to her loves
(Children) , her inspiration then casted
her to start her own business of
transportation. One important factor was
that she need transportation for her kids.
 Youth On The Move was started in 2000
and continues till today.
Getting Started

4.  Janice Brown was very smart before starting her own business
she just didn’t just go into the entrepreneurs world without the
knowledge for her to succeed. She had prior to starting the
business had ran residential programs for the state of
Massachusetts and for the stat of Connecticut. Then by doing this
she had learn how to set up her own business, now all that had to
be done was the leg work to get her business on the map. But it
didn’t stop their, she then had to coordinate with the registry of
motor vehicles to make sure that all the licenses were in the
proper condition for her business to succeed and also to have best
safety for her and the children. In the beginning she had
partnered with another bus company were she learned how to be
a trainer to train her future and now employees.
 With all that happened and what she learned from her
experiences , she had took that knowledge and used it to expand
her business.
Background in the Business

5. - Janice had first started her business in the LLC
(Limited Liability Company) the book describes such
a process as creation of the government to have the
company taxed like a sole proprietorship , they also
have personal assets protected also: Limited liability,
Choice of taxation, Flexible ownership rules, Flexible
distribution of profit and losses, Operating flexibility.
But later on she wanted to have a incorporated
business because it opened more doors because it
takes her out of the business but a LLC she is in the
business but when you are incorporated you have
more decision making . She like that experience so
she made her business like it.
Structure Of The Business

6.  As a business owner you learn a lot about
yourself what you can and cant do. Also being
successful in your business its one of the best of
the successes you can get, also when a business
owner you learn how to put a little fluff into what
you do to make everything better.
 One critical success factor is having one on one
relationships with your customers so that they
know they are at home when they step in or out
of her vehicles. Ms Janice told me “the Best way
to the customer is through their hearts “
What are your Successes

7.  Ms brown stated that being women was a great challenge for her
because as we know it is still today a mans world and women aren't
taken serious so over the years she has been fighting to earn the
respect that men are given automatically
 Financing the company in the beginning was a great fight as
expressed through Ms Brown, she had to get money that she didn’t
have at the time she really had to put her entrepreneurs hat on to
make money as a new owner and also well providing for her family.
 Another challenge was finding good enough employees to represent
the company as she was in the main office bring in the customers
she had to find good employees to express her same ideas.
 The most challenging aspect as Ms Janice expressed was not having
enough time to do the works in one day, plus you work long days and
long hours.
 Ms Janice overcame sum of these challenges by hiring more people
and growing her business.
What are Your Challenges

8.  Since Ms Janice has a bus company a
constant flaw is the uprising price of gas,
with the price going up the price of
transportation might be affected. Also the
cost of car insurance since the American
economy is going thru a period in which
every thing is in chaos it is always in the
back of her mind to watch out for.
Fatal Flaws

9.  Ms Janice is looking to stay in the
business for another five years, she hopes
to find an arena that will hold the business
financially for the next five years. She
hopes to have her business in one market
instead of being in four five markets, she
wants to concentrate on that market and
exploit it.
Future

10.  “If you have an idea run with it because
they're could be someone out there that
could benefit from your idea, no ideas is
stupid , reach for the stars and then pick
you assort those and arrange them in
your business.”
Advice

11.  What is your Slogan, if any ?
Pick up your kids when you can’t.
 What makes you happy with your Business?
Seeing the smiles of the many children and adults that I pick up and
then finishing the job by bringing them to their destination.
 Who is your favorite son?
Malcolm Lawrence Gladden
 if you could go back and choose again to go thru all the trials
and tribulations of starting a business would you do it, why ?
Yes, I would because it made me a better person that I am today, I
wouldn’t of have learned the same things staying at the job that
I didn’t like going to work everyday just doing it for the paycheck.
My thought process is why not do what you love.
Extra Questions

12.  I knew a lot from growing up when my
mom started the business and saw her
fight for what she believed in, I love her
because of it. She has taught me never to
give up and to keep fighting for your
dream no matter what happens. She has
also touched me in the since that doing in
what you believe in takes dedication and
hard work. Something that can not be
taught only earned.
What I Learn