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.