Lately, everybody's pushed into being an entrepreneur.

Every fresh company is now called a start-up.

There are a plethora of blog posts, seminars, books and whatnot that get injected monthly into the mega-pool of info. They all cover start-ups or give invaluable advice about entrepreneurship.

If everyone's a businessman, if everyone's an entrepreneur, if everyone's reading on how to increase ROI, how to find a target and start a tribe, how to be a better leader, and all that hooey -- who is left to sweep the floor? Well, I mean code.

I'm all for this craze of working in small teams or working from home or for building a product instead of being a service provider... but not everybody is cut out for this. Most start-ups fail; remember?

Sadly, most entrepreneurs aren't really entrepreneurs. They're business owners, at best, and business is bad. Everything is a start-up -- while all I see is a big pile of rotten ideas executed in mediocre fashion.

I appreciate the wave of attention and support. I think most people involved in start-ups do. But this widespread acknowledgement also means that the once heroic gesture of starting up has become a plain, expected act. And it's just a matter of time before the notion of start-up gets coupled with the notion of sloppy.

I was browsing through some geeky articles on Wikipedia and came across this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science

While I was pretty happy that I knew a lot of names from that list, I got pretty sad pretty fast when I checked out the Achievement Date column.

What that tells me is that there has been no pioneering in the nineties and noughties. Or at least, nobody bothered to write them down.

You could tell me that CS is a mature domain and that pioneering is hard or no longer required and I will smack you across the face next time I see you.

I did my bachelor in Computer Science, so I'm pretty bummed right now. I think one of the problems is that most innovations are carried out by companies nowadays, not by individuals. I don't mean the actual work, but the media-aided awareness that should follow.

So do we want superheroes or are we okay with teams?