Zero to Hero

"Zero to Hero" is a favorite phrase among my friends who are entrepreneurs. But what does it mean?
It means that you start with nothing but an idea - a light bulb moment that illuminates a vision that you have for the world; that something that does not exist yet should exist.
You share your excitement about that idea with others, and if you're lucky, that excitement is infectious. You build support. Perhaps a little money comes in, and some willing hands to build a dream, and some incredibly creative people who take your idea far beyond anything you could have imagined.
And that is what is happening before my eyes, here on the UMBC campus. We have zero storage space or space in which to build (none that is heated or secure, anyway). We have occupied the overhang space on the south side of the Fine Arts building. The hundred or so bottles that we have collected, and the bin we were using, disappeared today. Back to zero.
But we have the support of the Breaking Ground initiative, and a quadricycle, and barrels for flotation, and more brilliant ideas. So we will show up this weekend to build, whether we have "permission" or bottles or not. We will claim our space.