"Start what? What's your goal? Are you looking for best investment? Do you want to start mining? Trading? Or have you already decided you want to invest in altcoin but you don't know which one?"

I'm not looking to invest in mining yet. I do want to invest in coin, and not necessarily altcoin, although I have been hearing from people that altcoin is better right now. You're right that I need better education. That is step one I guess. I just want to start in on an income stream on the side that won't take 10 hours a day to babysit and won't take $10,000 worth of equipment to get into.

Update on OneCoin mining: In 9 days they have premined 2,270,000 coins with 52,000 members.