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Exactly. The problem I see with these 'guides' is repeatability. You cannot just follow the steps and get there... the substantial part is missing. Find A Problem Worth Solving... well everybody knows that, right? Is anyone here intentionally trying to solve problem that is not worth solving?

I have to admit that I am actually little annoyed when I see title like '5 Steps to $5,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue' because to me it seems a bit misleading. These are not really steps to $5,000/month... if they told me _how_ to find problem worth 5k than maybe that could be useful.

But this is like, ehm... do you want to be successful with the ladies? Here is one simple step... be awesome!

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I agree that just reading the headlines of the sections themselves is meaningless. What we tried to do with the post is identify tactical things we did to increase our MRR. Things like personally reaching out to every user, hand-holding them through the sign up process, figuring out where they abandoned the product, identifying the core feature set to build from our first batch of signups, figuring out how to deliver value within 5 minutes of signup.

There's never going to be a do x,y,z and you'll make $5k since every business is different, but instead tips like ours from what we've seen work for us.

Agreed on the title, a better one could have been, 'Our 5 Steps to $5k in MRR' to clarify.

    Is anyone here intentionally trying to solve problem that is not worth solving?

You might just be surprised by that... I find this happens a lot in business, where they will do custom ground up development something that could be an extension to their existing ERP solution, or other off the shelf solutions already do better.

If there were defined steps that would always lead to success then we'd know about it and everyone would follow them.

There are so many variables that this will never be the case.

You can only read these types of guides and hope to pick out something that might inspire you or help you realise something that you're doing that you could do better.

you nailed it honzzz! somebody should just a content focused on the first step: how to find a meaningful problem to solve.

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