Some of Charlotte's biggest fans

Garth Moulton is a walking, talking billboard for Charlotte.

That's one of three things I learned at an entrepreneurs networking event at the oh-so-hip Packard Place uptown Wednesday night.

Moulton, who grew up in New England and lived in Silicon Valley for 15 years, moved to Charlotte two years ago. He can't say enough good about the city and the surrounding area. A serial entrepreneur, he is now president and co-founder of OtherScreen, a Charlotte tech startup that's building a companion content platform for social TV. Learn more at www.otherscreen.com.

He's probably best known for his role as co-founder of Jigsaw, a crowd-sourced business database that was acquired by Salesforce.com last year for $175 million.

The second thing I learned at the event is that everybody in the entrepreneur community -- and I mean everybody -- knows and adores Terry Cox, president and CEO of Business, Innovation & Growth, better known as BIG. The membership nonprofit bills itself as a "safe haven" for entrepreneurs. Cox is also bullish on Charlotte, rattling off a number of local success stories in the past few months. Learn more at www.bigcouncil.com.

Lastly, I met Bryan Delaney of Skookum Digital Works, who gave me two or three other story ideas. One is how a company can go from the bedroom of an apartment to a 19th-floor office at Trade and Tryon in six years. Delaney is co-founder and VP, sales and marketing for Skookum, which builds custom business software for a number of high-profile corporate clients as well as funded startups across the country.

Skookum, started by college roommates and former Defense Department programmers Delaney and James Hartsell, now boasts 25 employees in addition to that impressive view of Charlotte.

The company's webiste (www.skookum.com) calls Charlotte "a ripe investor community with a contagious local entrepreneurial spirit."

So how's business? Pretty good for Moulton, Cox and Delaney. Tell me how you're doing.