The phrase "as a potential start" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when suggesting an initial idea or option that may lead to further development or discussion.
Example: "We can consider this proposal as a potential start to our collaboration on the project."
Alternatives: "as a possible beginning" or "as an initial option".
"I started looking at activism as a potential start-up industry," he says.In classic Silicon Valley fashion, the firm takes its name from a plot device in "Star Wars".
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.
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.
The broad strong antimicrobial, antiviral and antifungal activities of PG-1 have made it a focus of consideration as a potential starting point for designing attractive candidate antimicrobial drugs [6] [9].
If the result set is not empty, then the token's position is recorded as a potential starting point for a possible match candidate.
Starting from the initial guess, we ran DE for 200 generations without enforcing any improvement (random walks) and randomly picked a parameter vector from the last generation as a potential starting point.
Follow-up studies and immunization experiments revealed this motif to be consistently the earliest detectable SmBB' epitope, indicating that it acts as a potential starting point for epitope-spreading events associated with the SmBB' molecule and SmD polypeptides [ 17, 18].
The Preakness is not currently being considered as a potential next start.
The villagers see this as a potential fresh start for the local community and are now fighting to stop the Indian army from renewing their lease on the meadow.
The 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France was viewed as the potential start of a new era in Australian winter sports, with hopes that a maiden medal would result.
