<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>FoundryLume — Blog</title><description>FoundryLume is the founder operating system for going from idea to funded company — strategy sprints, investor-ready metrics and a launch playbook in one workspace.</description><link>https://foundrylume.example.com</link><language>en</language><copyright>© 2026 FoundryLume Labs Ltd.</copyright><item><title>The one-page operating plan that survives contact with reality</title><link>https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/the-one-page-operating-plan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/the-one-page-operating-plan</guid><description>Most startup plans are written to impress and then quietly abandoned. Here is a sample framework for a plan that actually gets used on a Tuesday afternoon.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Playbooks</category><category>Strategy</category><author>Alex Rivera</author></item><item><title>Pricing your first product without guessing</title><link>https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/pricing-your-first-product</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/pricing-your-first-product</guid><description>A sample teardown of how early-stage teams can find a defensible first price in four weeks, using conversations rather than spreadsheets.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Pricing</category><category>Go-to-market</category><author>Priya Nadar</author></item><item><title>Hiring your first ten people</title><link>https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/hiring-your-first-ten</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/hiring-your-first-ten</guid><description>Sample essay on why the first ten hires set the ceiling for everything that follows, and a practical loop for getting them right.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Team</category><category>Operations</category><author>Mei Tanaka</author></item><item><title>The four metrics that earn you a second meeting</title><link>https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/metrics-that-earn-a-second-meeting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/metrics-that-earn-a-second-meeting</guid><description>Sample breakdown of the numbers investors actually check first, and how to present them without a forty-slide appendix.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Fundraising</category><category>Metrics</category><author>Samuel Okafor</author></item><item><title>The quiet cost of context switching in a five-person team</title><link>https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/the-quiet-cost-of-context-switching</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://foundrylume.example.com/blog/the-quiet-cost-of-context-switching</guid><description>Sample essay on why small teams lose more time to fragmentation than to any single bad decision, and what to do about it.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Operations</category><category>Focus</category><author>Jonas Bergmann</author></item></channel></rss>