The phrase "a potential starting point" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an idea, concept, or method that could serve as an initial basis for further exploration or development.
Example: "This research paper presents a potential starting point for future studies on climate change adaptation strategies."
Alternatives: "a possible beginning" or "a likely foundation".
Yet you are "not indicating a U-turn on past legal aid cuts" as a potential starting point.
Our results identify the suramin family as a potential starting point for the design of falcipain-2 inhibitor antimalarials that act through a novel inhibition mechanism.
Analysts were at pains to point out that yesterday was only a potential starting point for a turnaround and there was still a long way to go, although they were generally positive.
Hizb-ut-Tahrir's ultimate goal is a global caliphate — an Islamic political and religious domain — across the entire Muslim world, and Pakistani researchers suggest that it has targeted Pakistan as a potential starting point.
However, they represent an important achievement and a potential starting point for further research [6].
This suggests that these molecules (or the waltherione scaffold) is a potential starting point for new safe antitrypanocidal drug development, although antidesmone (28) has already been patented for its potential as an antiprotozoal drug since 2003 [93, 105, 106].
The agreement on minimal standards applying to all of Europe (the results of the EU project Simbase, among others, would have to be valued as a possible starting point for this), in turn have to be interpreted as potential starting point for an Europe-wide accreditation of STCs [ 31].
I can't recall the last time (if ever) that I clicked on a Custom Timeline, but this does indicate one potential starting point for how this might look and act, and also how Twitter or an event holder might be able to control these personalized Tweets.
One potential starting point would be to target the college football or men's basketball players who participate in the Atlantic Coast Conference -- a conference with six private colleges (Boston College, Duke University, University of Miami, University of Notre Dame, Syracuse University, and Wake Forest University).
One potential starting point for investigations may be to examine partially reproductively isolated populations of a single species that exhibit CHC polymorphisms and assortative mating.
