How Hard Can It Be Book

“How Hard Can It Be is a real page-turner of a book – a fascinating and highly readable account of all the trials, tribulations, pivots, reversals and assorted near disasters involved in launching and monetizing a startup.’’

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“It’s not easy to openly share your own failures. Arnaud writes about his journey in such a compelling and honest way that he gives the rest of us permission to do the same.”

Suneel Gupta
Co-founder of Rise & Author of Backable and Everyday dharma

“How Hard Can It Be is a real page-turner of a book – a fascinating and highly readable account of all the trials, tribulations, pivots, reversals and assorted near disasters involved in launching and monetizing a startup business.”

Don Peppers
Author, Speaker, and CX authority

“In this intimately personal account, the author takes us on a journey through the birth and death of a dream. ‘How Hard Can It Be’ is more than a story of a business venture, it reveals the complexities and messiness of what it means to be human in an enchantingly honest way. A must-read for budding entrepreneurs as well as people interested in life, love and learning.”

Susan Goldsworthy OLY
Professor of Leadership & Organizational Change at IMD Business School and Author of three award-winning books incl. Care to Dare and Choosing Change

“Arnaud captures the emotional roller-coaster of a startup entrepreneurial journey. No amount of “how-to” guides can truly prepare founders for the turbulence, anguish, elation and surprise – all in single day. His personal story brings this to life vividly.”

Azran Osma Rani
Founder of Naluri and former CEO of AirAsiaX

“Arnaud has managed to convert his entrepreneurial story into a page turner full of lessons. Get ready to learn about the real day to day of startup life.”

Pepe Villatoro
Co-founder of Fuckup Inc.

“Failure. It’s something that we all try to avoid, yet experience nonetheless. How Hard Can It Be is a book that finally brings failure to the surface, to dissect, examine, and learn from. If you want some clues on how to best metabolize failure – read this book!”

Rich Diviney
Retired Navy Seal Commander & Author of The Attributes

“It takes a lot of courage to share a failure story. Arnaud has done that in great detail. The price he has paid for that failure has turned into a book as a present for you filled with lessons to learn, and more importantly, mistakes to avoid.”

Rajesh Setty
Co-founder of Audvisor.com & Author of Set-up to Start-up

“Learning is the only way to turn failure into success. Arnaud’s story of the ups and downs of his entrepreneurial adventure is full of lessons. He does not glorify failure but treats it with the respect a good teacher deserves. His narrative style is a refreshing new approach to the tired management genre”.

Dr. Samuel West
founder of The Museum of Failure

“In professing his failure in a most personal manner, Arnaud asks us to consider why, when the vast majority of startups fail, so few accounts of failing are available. With so much to learn from failing, maybe, just maybe, the time for more failures to step forward and share their experience is upon us.”

Dr. Matthew Higgins
Senior lecturer at the Open University Business School

THIS is How you WILL benefit from this startup book

The startup stories we are all familiar with tend to end with an oversubscribed IPO and millions of dollars for the founders. You know the drill; the side-hustle, the Unicorns and the rest of it. 

But if it was that easy, would not the ever-growing torrent of inspirational stories and the ton of how-to books that flood the internet and fill the self-help sections of bookstores have lead to a lot more ‘successes’? But, here is the thing; numbers don’t lie.

Today, nine startups out of ten fail. That’s right. Irrespective of a startup team’s ideas, talent, funding, hard work or milestones achieved along the way, only 10% of startups make it past the ten years mark. 

It is this realization that led me to conclude that to improve the probability of entrepreneurs succeeding, we need less improbable tales of ‘success’ and more real-world startup stories. 

 

How Hard Can It Be compiles well over a decade worth of learnings from startup and scaleup experiences. But How Hard Can It Be is not your typical ‘5 Hacks to Making Zillions after hours’. Instead, it is the behind-the-scenes account of what it really takes to run a tech startup. In reading How Hard Can It Be, my goal is to prepare you for the rough ride that the startup journey is.

 

In How Hard Can It Be, you will learn (amongst many other things):

  1. What it takes to start and monetize a startup (build your MVP, pitch an incubator, land angel money, get traction, close VC rounds, how to think about pricing, etc.)
  2. How to navigate the emotions that arise when going from uninformed optimism to informed pessimism and back again
  3. How to break through the ever-increasing noise with the power of guerrilla marketing
  4. What to do when your business isn’t as scalable as you thought
  5. How to pivot (and pivot again) as you search for scale and sustainable growth

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Bonus chapter

the 7 traps on the road to startup success

It is a fact that people retain information best through stories. This is why I wrote How Hard Can It Be as I did

And to support you further in your entrepreunarial endeavors, I have compiled what I believe are the seven most important challenges you need to be aware of. I call them The 7 Traps on the Road to Startup Success. So if you are ready to dent the universe, this combo (startup book+bonus) is what you need to accelerate your time to success. 

STEP 1
Purchase How Hard Can It Be  from your preferred retailer today.

STEP 2
Forward your receipt to hello@howhardcanitbethebook.com.

STEP 3
Receive your FREE bonus chapter:The 7 Traps  on the Road to Startup Success.

STEP 4
Shorten your time to success.

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Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm

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About The Author

Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm is an entrepreneur, author and possibilist. Today, he leads sales at Furhat Robotics a company known for its most advanced social robot. He is a board advisor to HealthPhy, a physiotherapy-on-demand app.  

Arnaud is the founder of multiple startups, including internalDesk, a SaaS platform for enterprise collaboration. internalDesk was recognized as one of the ‘top10 tech rising stars’ in the Nordics in 2014 and was acquired in 2019. Arnaud’s interest areas include entrepreneurship, neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy and everything related to mindset and longevity. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and three children. 

Arnaud is a popular podcast guest

Jason Sharman, serial entrepreneur and host of the popular ‘Strap on your boots’ podcast and Arnaud discuss… (in English)
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Sofia Wingren and Filip Strömbäck, hosts of the popular Swedish podcast ‘Rat Race’ sit down with Arnaud… (in English)
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John Livesay, keynote speaker, sales expert and multiple times author sits down with Arnaud…
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Mark Coopersmith professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the UC Berkeley and bestselling author of “The Other ‘F’ Word has a chat with Arnaud…
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Stephan K. Thieringen, host of the Raw Rants podcast, sits down with Arnaud. They cover quite a few topics…
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