Daniel Lyons

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

— Daniel Lyons

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

— Daniel Lyons

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

— Daniel Lyons

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

— Daniel Lyons

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

You can crank out Bitcoins on a PC, but it's an incredibly computer-intensive task, and it will keep getting harder as the…

— Daniel Lyons

Conventional companies try to find new uses for capabilities they already have. Transformers look at what the market needs and then go…

— Daniel Lyons

I feel like Valleywag has been different things with different writers over the years. Up and down. I think it's at their…

— Daniel Lyons

The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player. Nor were the iPhone and iPad the first in their categories. The real reason for…

— Daniel Lyons

If a developer wants to sell something via an iPad app - it's called an 'in-app purchase' - the transaction must go…

— Daniel Lyons

My role on 'Silicon Valley' was so small that I didn't have a lot of influence anyway in the show. There are…

— Daniel Lyons

Every new HubSpot employee has to go through training to learn how to use the software. That's a good idea, and it…

— Daniel Lyons

I was working at 'Forbes,' and I covered big enterprise companies - IBM, Sun, and EMC - and it was kind of…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.

— Daniel Lyons

Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government…

— Daniel Lyons

Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.

— Daniel Lyons

Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data…

— Daniel Lyons

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

— Daniel Lyons