The phrase "appropriate starting point for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a foundation or basis for further discussion, analysis, or action.
Example: "This research paper serves as an appropriate starting point for understanding the complexities of climate change."
Alternatives: "suitable foundation for" or "ideal basis for".
About 40% of all oil wells generate "associated" natural gas at or above that level, so it seemed an appropriate starting point for analysis.
The presented formalism, correct in the low-solubility limit, should be considered as an appropriate starting point for estimation of whether a more computationally expensive formalism is needed.
Tournaments seem to be an appropriate starting point for this concept because a tournament induces incentives by making agents compare themselves with their opponents.
Whether he knows it or not, the words are an appropriate starting point for his loan to Newcastle United, a club which does not tend to specialise in normality.
The recent MPEG Reconfigurable Media Coding (RMC) standard aims at defining media processing specifications (e.g. video codecs) in a form that abstracts from the implementation platform, but at the same time is an appropriate starting point for implementation on specific targets.
These results provide an appropriate starting point for future studies.
Degrees in education, rehabilitation, special education, education/rehabilitation technology or therapy (physical, occupational, or speech) are all appropriate starting points for someone hoping to move into assistive technology.
All of these ICA-based detectors first carry out the centering and whitening steps and then select the appropriate starting point initializing iterations for capturing the correct weight vector.
Both M. tuberculosis and L. donovani reside in macrophages in vivo, and so the investigation of antitubercular agents was deemed a particularly appropriate starting point in the search for potential VL treatments.
For instance, the inter-rater reliability of user implementation of the checklist to rate particular tests may represent an appropriate starting point [36].
