Victor Cheng

CEO coach to founders of SaaS companies. Author: Extreme Revenue Growth, Recession-Proof Business, and Case Interview Secrets.

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Founders focus on getting customers.

CEOs focus on getting the right customers.

The best customers don't just buy. They stay, grow, and create long-term value.

#CEO #SaaS

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A founder is often a startup's first product manager.

The challenge isn't building the product.

It's building a product management function that no longer depends on the founder.

#ProductManagement #SaaS

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Founders win through resourcefulness.

CEOs win through leverage.

Scaling starts when systems produce results that no longer depend on the founder.

#CEO #Leadership

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Great product managers don't just gather feedback.

They turn competing priorities into clear decisions about where to invest limited R&D resources.

Building the right thing beats building more things.

#ProductManagement #SaaS

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What gets a company off the ground
is rarely what scales it.

Founders who scale successfully learn an entirely new skill set.

#Leadership #Startups

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Strong product strategy starts with focus.

Every release should answer:
→ who are we helping?
→ what problem are we solving?
→ what business outcome are we driving?

#ProductManagement #SaaS

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Tactics create short-term wins.

Systems create scalable companies.

The best CEOs build processes that grow with the business instead of relying on constant heroics.

#Leadership #Scaling

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R&D investment without a business case is just expensive guessing.

Strong product leaders connect roadmap decisions to measurable outcomes:

* revenue growth
* churn reduction
* retention improvement

#ProductManagement #SaaS

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@JustJerry121 That’s the stone cold truth.

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A common founder mistake:
Overinvesting in product development while underinvesting in distribution.

A great product alone rarely wins.
Lead generation, positioning, and sales execution matter just as much.

Get the product and the go-to-market right.

#SaaS #StartupGrowth

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@VictorCheng Product work feels safer because the feedback is quieter. Distribution makes the room honest fast.

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You don’t scale by building more features.

You scale by solving bigger problems customers will pay to fix.

Value creation drives growth.

#SaaS #ProductStrategy

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Product management sits between 5 groups in every SaaS company:
prospects, customers, leadership, partners, and R&D.

Its job is aligning all 5 into a product strategy that drives growth.

#SaaS #ProductManagement

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@yabsssai In person interviews or sales calls where you say “what if we could [make that problem go away], how would you feel about that?” And before they answer verbally, their eyes light up — and you got your answer.

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Most SaaS startups don’t fail because of bad tech.

They fail because nobody urgently needed what they built.

Solve painful problems. Charge for value. Build distribution early.

#SaaS #ProductMarketFit

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@spockwoz @simplydt 2) Its a similar threshold for venture debt investors and for growth and private equity. Below the low 80’s the math doesn’t work at scale. If the goal is a lifestyle business that doesn’t grow beyond say $1M ARR, you could be at lower retention and the math can work to a point.

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@spockwoz @simplydt 1) Yes it still holds for lower priced SaaS. Note I only work in B2B no B2C. In the low to mid 80’s as you scale, adding new customers grows total revenue. Below that, adding new customers merely replaces departing customers and there’s no revenue growth.

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This is spot on regarding building self-improving loops.

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@Bahr_edits Lots of ways to get in front of customers depending on who they are. As you pointed out, the right message is key. If the message doesn’t land, doesn’t matter if it’s videos, enterprise sales force, or channel partner, it won’t work.

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@simplydt 2) Short answer is once you have MVP, you need at least some GTM to ground your R&D in the reality of the customers world. Don’t raise capital for major GTM until gross revenue retention is over 80% indicating you have product market fit.

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@simplydt 1) GTM feedback is enormously helpful for accurate R&D. In my book Extreme Revenue Growth, I talk about features built for users vs for buyers. In some markets they are not the same person. Even when they are the same person, it’s two different hats they are wearing.