How To Successfully Conduct a Capital Raise

What is a capital raise? Basically, a capital raise is obtaining capital (i.e. cash money) from investors to help fund new or growing business ventures, where the investors will own a share in the business in exchange for their investment. … read more

Just Call Him Professor Dan

VSAG’s very own Dan Simons has a new peg to hang his hat on: Professor! Dan is just coming off a stint teaching a 7-week course at The George Washington University School of Business.  Dan shared his valuable business insight and … read more

GWU Honors VSAG’s Dan Simons at Alumni Event

Congratulations to VSAG Founder Dan Simons on receiving the first annual George Washington University’s “Business Gives Back Distinguished Alumni Award.” This prestigious recognition was created this year as a part of the 2nd annual “Business Gives Back” honors, where GW … read more

VSAG’s First Scholarship for Sustainability Award

Soon The George Washington University school year will come to a close, and one student in particular has VSAG and Founding Farmers in her corner with a $5,000 scholarship to help get her closer to her BBA from the GW School of … read more

The Key Ingredient: Genuine Collaboration

As co-Founder of a firm with a wide range of services, I often find myself working with other service providers where there is some overlap between our scope of services. Oftentimes, it’s one of the hurdles of a project – the … read more

Is OpenTable Worth It? Dan Simons Says ‘Yes!’

As VSAG founder and owner of one of the most popular restaurants in the country, I thought I would offer some insight and true-life case study experience to a question that has been bantered about the food industry community recently – … read more

Farewell, Dear Friend….

  The entire VSAG family is in mourning. One of our team members passed away this week. He was far too young and far too healthy. It came as a shock to us all. George Roche was our friend, our colleague, our baker, our day … read more

VSAG Responds to The Washington Post’s Article on Sustainability

From VSAG’s Dan Simons, in response to the December 7, 2009 article by Jane Black that appeared on the front page of The Washington Post:

We’re thankful to Jane Black for bringing such an important topic – sustainable agriculture and what it means to be a green restaurant committed to sustainable business practices – to the front page of The Washington Post. How much more important can this topic get for foodies and restaurateurs? Not much more, but we’re glad that there is focus on a successful business in Washington, DC, that is working to help American family farmers and pushing the envelope on a broad array of topics that go well beyond the superficial, easy topics…. read more

Best of the Web Recognizes VSAG.com

Recently the new VSAG.com web site was named to the “Best of the Web” in the top Business > Business to Business> Hospitality Industry > Consulting web site category. Building a good web site is like building a good restaurant … read more

Dan Simons Featured on GWU’s Planet Forward

Dan_Simons_Founding_Farmers_UP_WLA_2009-5353_460x200‘Planet Forward’ sounds like a cool new hang out at a university campus, but it’s actually a co-production of the Public Affairs Project at The George Washington University and Nebraska Educational Telecommunications. Program students Madeline Twomey and Juliette Dallas-Feeney sat with Dan Simons recently to talk about going green in the restaurant business, specifically at Founding Farmers. The women are part of a reporting class that uses advanced multimedia platforms to create stories about sustainability and going green. The two spent some time in the restaurant filming the interiors, the high filtration water system, the recycling center and of course the food! Check out the video, Serving Up a Platter of Green, after the break.

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