The phrase "initiate small" can be correct and usable in written English as long as it is used in a grammatically correct and meaningful sentence.
Example: As a new business owner, it is important to initiate small and gradually expand your operations to ensure sustainable growth.
Every day, Charles must negotiate some extraordinarily banal conversations, which is inevitable when you initiate small talk with 20 people in 15 minutes, as he did here.
This new Japanese legislation will enable companies to initiate small pilot treatment studies with as few as 10 patients without having to perform traditional Phase III clinical trials.
Since the 1990s, refugees have also benefitted from small grants and microcredit programmes offered by NGOs to initiate small enterprises (Elizondo et al. [2008]), which has boosted productive activities and self-reliance among refugees (Cavaglieri [2005]).
The high correlation of the FIB small crack growth results with inclusion test results indicates that using a FIB notch to initiate small cracks is a good way to test small crack growth in high strength steels.
At the time, I was too in awe of him to initiate small talk.
It will be possible to initiate small projects on the effects of previously identified single nucleotide variants and SNV-SNV interactions on phenotype.
So, off and on for 20 years, the Iranians have been initiating small incidents, testing the limits of what America will accept.
To reduce emissions and eliminate the country's reliance on imported oil, in the early 21st century Iceland initiated small pilot projects aimed at determining the feasibility of creating a hydrogen-based society.
Internally, the teams are backed by two knowledge engineers that supervise the engineering conventions and that are responsible for initiating small refactorings/reorganizations of the total knowledge base.
The existence of four herringbone DIP molecules in DIP crystal has initiated small intermolecular interaction that reduced the energy gap by ~ 0.092 eV, where the mean energy gap values of DIP is ~ 1.398 eV (exclude BLYP and B3LYP).
By initiating small steps toward sustainability, long-term and leading knowledge societies can emerge, which will live in balance with nature and ultimately, perhaps, lead to a green economic wonder.
