Today’s Solutions: May 08, 2026

The next time a cool new music player or drone catches the public’s imagination, there’s a good chance it won’t be an Apple or an Amazon product. Instead, it could be the result of thousands of small donations funneled to a tiny company, and built from the ground up through a powerful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Increasingly, small companies and individual entrepreneurs with limited funds …

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