It totally depends on wich kind of business you wuant to start
You can very comfortably start number of small projects by giving away your bitcoins. I think it is not a big deal actually but you need to plan and think well before making any kind of decision. Ill prefer to keep bitcoins and start trading of bitcoin instead of starting number of small projects. This will just add more trouble for me and it will require more hard work.
I agree with this better have a solid plan for your project first then look for someone who can help you with the project atleast whenever he asks you for details you can answer him if you have a solid plan.,
Make sense. You are a newbie and you have to take some experience in the field. So for this better is to make some amazing plan, but how can you make this plan? So just learn enough. Get some basics of what you are doing and then surely contact any related person who will help you in this field. Keep you concern pure and things will be easy for you.
The most important thing before even starting of some new project for someone who is new is to decide very much carefully which project to start. If you manage to choose some good project, then you will also manage to make enough profit from that project. You need to struggle a lot in the beginning and it will be paid off to you in better way.
Hey we don't need to worry about that there are plenty escrow available in the forum itself. If you want have trusted middle man to handle the transaction you need to choose people like Lauda, SebastianJu or other most trusted escrow to handle it.
Investment should be regularly calculated and your profit and lose calculation is much when the time you invested in it.