Well, I never went deep into studying short stack strategies.
But I'd recommend the standard 100bb deep strategy.

I can talk for ~50bb stacks: Variance is lower, about 60bb/100 standard deviation, so with the same winrate you will need less bankroll for the same risk of ruin. Personally, 50 half-buy-ins is fine for me (5,000bb), but winrate is a critical factor here.

And about winrates, you can sustain pretty good ones, similar to deepstack (as long as you play good :-P). Diego Ramírez, an Essential coach, had really good winrates (9bb/100 or so if I recall correctly) playing NL50-200 with 40bb.

But in theory deepstack poker should attain higher winrates, given the flexibility and more complexity of the strategies (more overbetting options for example that can induce more mistakes), and the ability to stack-off deepstack fishes, wich is a very important part of our winrate.

Midstack poker has some advantages: it's easier to learn (no 4-bet pots postflop, simpler postflop lines), also in single raised pots strategies are really similar to deepstack play (so you don't need to re-learn everything), and regs sometimes play pretty bad against a half-stack, specially preflop -many of them will think that you're a fish probably-. And you can move up in stakes a bit faster with less bankroll.

Left out a tiny itsy bitsy detail out :D - PLO