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Capitalism’s Favorite Business Model

Capitalism’s Favorite Business Model

Written by: Ordway
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Meet some of Ordway's most talented and interesting employees, whom the company calls Ordmates. Host Steve Keifer, Ordway's CMO, interviews new hires, rising stars, and tenured managers about the employee experience, the company culture, and the career development opportunities at the world's fastest-growing billing company. Entry-level developers with aspirations of working in the blockchain, payments, and embedded finance sectors explain how Ordway provides a great place to learn fintech.
And more experienced staff debate the pros and cons of working at startups versus bigger companies.

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Episodes
  • Debt vs Equity for B2B SaaS Companies
    Jan 27 2025

    Brian Parks, Co-Founder and CEO of Bigfoot Capital discusses the pros and cons of different capital structures for B2B SaaS companies with Steve Keifer, CMO of Ordway and host of the Capitalism's Favorite Business Model podcast series. Brian explores the tradeoffs between selling equity to venture capital firms and using debt to fund growth. In addition, he provides insights on the process to raise debt, the financials that are reviewed in the underwriting process, and the ideal ratio of debt-to-equity for different stages.

    He also discusses a recent survey Bigfoot conducted of equity and debt firms about the current state of the market and how investors are thinking about deploying capital in the coming year.

    Learn more about Ordway - the finance platform for innovative business models - on our website.

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    28 mins
  • Recurring Billing System Implementation
    Jan 23 2024

    Max Rosenberg, VP of Client Services at Ordway, discusses the considerations for implementing a recurring billing system on this episode of the Ordway podcast. Discussion topics include automating sales tax calculations, connecting to payment gateways, and designing customer communications schedules. He also provides insights on who is typically involved in the recurring billing project, how long implementation will take, and what the most common obstacles encountered include.

    Learn more about Ordway - the finance platform for innovative business models - on our website.

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    53 mins
  • Emerging Payment Technologies
    Dec 14 2023

    Phil Levy, CEO of Exact Payments⁠ and fintech expert shares the top three emerging payment technologies that finance leaders should have on their radar – 1) digital wallets, 2) network tokenization, and 3) real-time payments. He also explains the payment facilitator (payfac) model and how it has greatly simplified the ability for SaaS companies to collect payments.

    Learn more about Ordway - the finance platform for innovative business models - on our website.

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    37 mins
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