11 Facts About Daniel Lyons

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Daniel Lyons was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and a writer at Newsweek before becoming editor of ReadWrite.

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Dan Daniel Lyons authored the book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot.

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Daniel Lyons has won other literary awards including the 1992 AWP Award for Short Fiction and the Playboy College Fiction Award.

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Daniel Lyons attended Brooks School in North Andover, MA, a college preparatory school.

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Daniel Lyons received his MFA from the University of Michigan in 1992.

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Daniel Lyons was a senior editor at Forbes magazine, covering enterprise computing and consumer electronics.

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Between 2003 and 2007 Daniel Lyons covered the SCO cases against IBM and against Linux.

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8.

Daniel Lyons was able to maintain anonymity for just under one year, despite speculation.

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In October 2007 Daniel Lyons released the book Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody, under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs".

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On July 9,2008, Daniel Lyons announced on the Fake Steve blog that he would be launching a new site under his own name and discontinuing writing in a faux-Jobs style.

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Daniel Lyons later announced his decision to place the Fake Steve blog on indefinite hiatus was out of respect for the real Steve Jobs' health:.