Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. – Earlier this year, Warren Buffett congratulated a group of three Kentucky kids for developing kits to help their peers set up businesses.
Now Buffett is helping teach the young entrepreneurs how tough business can be by backing a competing product.
Both the new “Business in a Box” kits and the contest the Kentucky kids won in May are tied to “The Secret Millionaire’s Club” cartoon that features advice from an animated version of the billionaire investor.
Amy Heyward, one of the co-founders of cartoon maker A Squared Entertainment, said the company started developing the Business in a Box kits more than three years ago, so there’s no direct link to the contest-winning idea.
