Daniel Lyons

Even in the business department of a magazine, tech was a backwater.

— Daniel Lyons

Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?

— Daniel Lyons

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

— Daniel Lyons

I often wonder what the world would be like if more companies were like Apple.

— Daniel Lyons

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

— Daniel Lyons

There's no special technological wizardry involved in what Groupon does.

— Daniel Lyons

Confining a resume to a single page is good advice for anyone.

— Daniel Lyons

What TV was to John Kennedy, Facebook is to Obama.

— Daniel Lyons

What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.

— Daniel Lyons

The Kindle app runs on iPads, BlackBerry, and Android devices, so you can read your books wherever you want; with Apple, you're…

— Daniel Lyons

There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.

— Daniel Lyons

Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good…

— Daniel Lyons

Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.

— Daniel Lyons

Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

— Daniel Lyons

Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off - not even Andy Rubin, the Silicon Valley engineer who…

— Daniel Lyons

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

— Daniel Lyons

The office-as-playground trend was made famous by Google and has spread like an infection across the tech industry. Work can't just be…

— Daniel Lyons

HubSpot's offices occupy several floors of a 19th-century furniture factory that has been transformed into the cliche of what the home of…

— Daniel Lyons

What if people could use the Internet to create a new kind of money, one that didn't involve governments and central banks…

— Daniel Lyons

'Do not track' probably won't spell doom for online advertisers. But it will put the burden on them to explain to consumers…

— Daniel Lyons

I wouldn't say that I know a lot about 'Silicon Valley'. I live in Boston, for one thing. And I don't live…

— Daniel Lyons

The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone with the phone part taken out, which is fine - since making calls is the…

— Daniel Lyons

Carrier networks were originally built for connecting phone calls. Now they're getting swamped with bandwidth-hogging data applications. Keeping up will require huge…

— Daniel Lyons

The technology, called near-field communication, involves a microchip that can send and receive data across very short distances, about four inches. Instead…

— Daniel Lyons

Can anyone create an enduring business on the Web, where it's easy to build new companies, and when survival depends on the…

— Daniel Lyons

A startup job is an investment, after all: Venture capitalists may wager money, but you're staking something more precious - your time.…

— Daniel Lyons

The world of online marketing, where HubSpot operates, though, has a reputation for being kind of grubby. Our customers include people who…

— Daniel Lyons

One way Groupon hopes to gain an edge is by using software to learn about its members so it can deliver more…

— Daniel Lyons

Nvidia's self-driving-car business grew out of a long-standing relationship with auto companies. Car guys used Nvidia chips for computer-aided design, then used…

— Daniel Lyons

Mesh networking is an old idea. Oddly enough, the low-cost XO Laptop built by the 'One Laptop Per Child' organization - the…

— Daniel Lyons

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on…

— Daniel Lyons

Is any job safe? I was hoping to say 'journalist,' but researchers are already developing algorithms that can gather facts and write…

— Daniel Lyons

'Silicon Valley' likes being satirized. They've all been waiting for someone to come along and make fun of it.

— Daniel Lyons

HubSpot is divided into 'neighborhoods,' each named after a section of Boston: North End, South End, Charlestown.

— Daniel Lyons

I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but…

— Daniel Lyons

Fixing mistakes is one thing. Apple's bigger strength has been its ability to keep improving hit products.

— Daniel Lyons

GE rolled out a popular TV ad campaign in 2015 explaining why youthful techies should give the 'digital industrial' giant a second look.

— Daniel Lyons

My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.

— Daniel Lyons

In the world according to Apple, content is just a bunch of digital bits, easily copied, nothing special.

— Daniel Lyons

There are two types of young people - the partiers and the people who wanted a sense of purpose in their life.

— Daniel Lyons