How To Properly Evaluate the Risk and Rewards of Startups

February 29, 2024 by Stephen Hallgren in nonfractional, How-To

As of March 2022, within the first 5 years of a startup’s life 48.4% fail. If you stretch that timeframe out to 10 years, 65.1% will fail (Source: LendingTree). Interestingly enough, Y-Combinator claims that 90% fail[§] and then says that “more than 50% of YC companies are still alive 5 years later.” If you read between the lines, YC’s success rate is no better than the industry average’s success rate (Source: Y-Combinator)…

How-To: Use HealthFit To Sync Your Apple Watch Correctly With Strava and Final Surge

July 27, 2020 by Stephen Hallgren in How-To

I was an Apple Watch guy before I really got obsessed with running. It quickly became clear to me that “real” runners don’t use an Apple Watch. Most runners I know use Garmin or Suunto and because of this, there is very little written about how to truly get the most out of your Apple Watch, short of not using one. Frankly, I was not about to blow $300-400 dollars on switching, so this article is to help you–a loyal Apple Watch user–to get the most out of your Apple Watch and have it syncing correctly to the many services out there…