Here's my little starter pack, a bootstrap base almost complete : Power, Furnaces, a decent amount of Red and Green Science and all the tools (arms, belts, assemblies, drills, ...) automated to do it, even some light and pickaxes.
Automation and logistics are needed (automation 2 will become quickly necessary for blue assemblies to craft things with more than two items like arms).
It's not optimized and without pretention (and I know, a little bit messy also ^^), it's designed to be self-sufficient and give some comfort in early game without planning a greater factory.
All you need is some water (one pump), coal (8 electric drills), iron (16) and copper (8) (it'll be more than enough)
Start with a quarter of the steam, half of the furnaces, some ore, a litlle red science and then finish it. One thing, when placing the blueprint without all the requested sciences (automation 1 & 2, logistics, optics and electronics) some assemblies will not show their duties, then you can delete the ghost images and put the blueprint again when researched.
I only hope it could help some beginners like me :)