As you may have heard by now, that tech startup called RJMetrics we’ve been writing about for years is no more.

This week, the company announced it would be acquired by a large ecommerce company out of Silicon Valley calledMagento. A week before the big news, one of its first few hires — developer Matt Monihan — left his job and set up shop in Astoria, Queens, to give the entrepreneur thing a fair shot.

“Matt had more side projects than just about any employee we’ve ever hired,” RJMetrics cofounder Robert Moore said. “With all the changes going on, Matt’s long tenure with the company and his desire to work from NYC, this was a very natural time for him to go off and start his own venture.”

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