The phrase "a key starting point" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an important or essential initial step in a process or discussion.
Example: "Identifying the target audience is a key starting point for developing an effective marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a crucial foundation" or "an essential beginning".
These compounds revealed little to no toxicity against mammalian NIH-3T3 fibroblasts and provide a key starting point for further drug development with this class of compound.
"Nobody will miss the fact, regardless of what day part you look at, that there's something out there called Snap as a key starting point to the Internet," Mr. Rogers said.
In general, a coherent fault taxonomy is a key starting point for providing techniques and methods for assessing the quality of software and in particular of component-based systems.
Franke and his wife penned a book called Doping: From Research to Deceit, which was seen as a key starting point in the lengthy process that led to the current unified German government offering €10.5m (£7.1m) in compensation to the victims of the last major state-run doping regime.
With our enormous scale this should make us the partner of choice for publishers and bring users back for more as a key starting point.
Of course, Google has already been using Gmail as a key starting point for your social graph for a while now, even if you didn't realize it.
For charities who find this an incredibly complex maze to navigate, the key starting point in any discussion is to distinguish between social investment into charities (and charities needing to have sufficient investment readiness) and those investments made by a charity for the purposes of financial return and furthering the charities aims.
The key starting point would be to find a piece of land, unclaimed by any country, as was the case of this seven square kilometers of land along the Croatian and Serbian border.
The key starting point of this workflow was a collection of manually curated subsystems in the SEED genomic database [ 7] capturing a substantial fraction of known sugar utilization pathways projected across many bacterial species.
We present here preliminary work on the development of thin film Mg2+ conducting electrolytes as the key starting point for the development of all-solid-state Mg batteries.
This option space is the key starting point for the work of any climate engineer using building performance simulation who is supporting the design process.
