I wont really like to sugest yet you do have the full control of your funds and i don like for someone to blame me when they lose up money or getting scammed but seeing this board will give you the options which projecyou would potentially invest your 1k usd   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0 .Just choose up the potential one,would really be hard for first time investors but would really be worth to try if you can handle the risk.