Lydia Belanger
Entrepreneur Staff
/ Associate Editor
Lydia Belanger is an associate editor at Entrepreneur.com. She writes about how companies and their founders are solving problems in our connected and conflicted world. Her interests include the retail industry, the gig economy, social entrepreneurship and surprising business applications of emerging technologies. She previously worked as a contributing researcher for Wired.
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Rejected by Network TV, These 3 Women Took Their Talents to YouTube and Grew an Audience of 3.6 Million
Connie Contardi, Yolanda Gampp and Jocelyn Mercer's channel How to Cake It features cakes that look like human organs, Chinese takeout and more.
The Way We Work
This Incubator for Women-Focused Businesses Finds the Color Pink Empowering, Not Demeaning
The Pink Ceiling, founded by successful entrepreneur Cindy Whitehead, is unapologetically pink, candid and a little irreverent.
Work-Life Balance
A Buzzing Business: How These Entrepreneurs Turned a Longtime Annoyance Into Successful Careers in Pest Control
Mosquito Joe franchisees Kurt and Melissa Godwin share how their second career helped create a better work-life balance for them.
Project Grow
10 Inspiring Quotes From Pulitzer Prize-Winning Rapper Kendrick Lamar
The artist has achieved legendary status.
Fear
12 Things You Need to Know About Fear, and How You Can Be a Better Entrepreneur Because of It
Here's what to look for to be more self-aware about your own fear, including when to accept it and how to prevent it from clouding your judgment.
The Way We Work
This Former Google Exec Shares Why Leaders Get Happiness Wrong and Why Meditation No Longer Makes Sense
Mo Gawdat, author of 'Solve for Happy,' shares his happiness equation, so you can be content at work and in life.
Income Inequality
These Are the U.S. States Where the Gender Pay Gap Is Widest
In some states, the average man makes $15,000 more than the average woman.
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg Says There's No Quick Fix for Facebook's Issues
During a press conference call, Zuckerberg addressed various concerns users and governments have raised about misuse of the Facebook platform.
Microsoft
10 Amazing Moments in Microsoft's History, From Its Founding to Desktop Dominance to Today
Here's how the software company, founded on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, paved the way for personal computing and dominated the market.
The Way We Work
Go Inside The Wing, the Women-Only Coworking Space That Celebrates and Supports Women Creators
As The Wing expands, its founders are learning more about what its members want.
Technology
10 Ways Technology Hijacks Your Behavior
Data, gamification and other means of psychological manipulation can influence you to make healthy choices, work harder, spend money and more.
Privacy Concerns
Here Are 6 Weird Ways You're Being Tracked in the Real World
You probably know that your online activity creates a data trail. But technology is creeping into the offline world, making it difficult to go anywhere without leaving a trace.
Facebook
Here's How to Download and Delete Your Facebook Data
Facebook just announced that managing your data will soon get even easier. In the meantime, here's a step-by-step guide to finding and erasing it.
The Way We Work
Take a Look at This Cosmic Coworking Space That Was Inspired By a Hallucinogenic Drug
The Assemblage is designed to bring its community members closer together by reflecting upon the interconnectivity of Earth and the cosmos.
Tips
25 Tech Tools, Tricks and Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Chromebook
Your web browser in laptop form can act more like a laptop than you might expect.
