First thing first;
Never start up with a capital that you know will affect you if you fall into loss. You should also be ready to make personal research and asked question here in the forum as it will help give you guidelines and advice from people who has gotten into similar or related situation. Going through the forum to read some posts that are a lot helpful to new users of the forum, in terms of exchanges, coins to invest on, coin to trade and how to start up trading. Here also how to make use of the forum to get paid for using it, either by giveaways or campaigns.
Basic Knowledge is very important and personal research will keep you a step ahead.