Fairfield County Business Journal Ship ’n shore for new business
Ship ’n shore for new business
Don’t call them wet behind the ears.
Two young entrepreneurs in Stamford are making waves with their business, Topside Detailing, an auto and nautical detailing company that brings its clean-n-green services to the customer.
“We’ve been excited to get our ideas out there,” said Jonathan Piazza-Harper,” principal of Topside Detailing. “It’s just taken off.”
Piazza-Harper and his business partner Parth Thaker attended UConn together as science majors and graduated in May, though they made their start in business in the summer of 2007.
“It was a random summer gig,” said Piazza-Harper. “We both had internships that didn’t work out, so we started doing this. It progressed and we’d work on it whenever we had a chance.”
Piazza-Harper had worked for a yacht club and applied his knowledge of marinas to a ‘come-to-you’ wash concept.
The now 23 year-old pair began waxing and washing boats in Hartford and clients began to ask if we would start washing their cars too.
“We thought what’s a unique way we can wash both?,” said Thaker. “There’s tons of car washes tons of detailers out there, we went with going onsite and added the water retention system and gained a nitch.”
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