"It's a basic tool that would give a financially astute person a starting point for personal finance planning," she said in an e-mail.
From this point, with a single personal account as a starting point, the intrusion spread like a virus – infecting a number of accounts on a number of different services both inside and outside of Twitter.
While some documentary photographers draw inspiration from the larger world, others use their personal experience as a starting point.
It is important taking into account the social factor and that of personal relations as a starting point in the configuration of networks of devices, where these devices associate or interact finally with users.
Hu Jintao visited the US as vice-president in 2002 and passed the test for taking over the highest position in the state; Xi Jingping has embarked on the same track of establishing a personal relationship between leaders as a new starting point for developing inter-state relations.
There are all the usual opportunities to use this book as a starting point for personal writing, diaries, letters and journals which explain how it feels to be picked on or to make friends.
"It's interesting using my own very personal formative experiences as a starting point because it makes you examine yourself and your motivations – my life certainly didn't take the course I imagined it would," said May.
Conversation is a starting point, engaging people at a personal level and developing confidence through sharing ideas, experiences, and humour.
"It's still a reasonable starting point," said Christine Benz, director of personal finance at Morningstar in Chicago.
Young storytellers are often encouraged to write what they know — to use personal knowledge or experience as a starting point for fictions.
