you can just take the tubbing off of the muffler and blow into the return line instead of cracking it and cranking.
If you have an electric starter it'll vacume it faster.

once the engine breaks in. You can easily start it with a chicken stick.
It helps if you mount the prop in the correct posistion.

If you flood the engine and create a freeze lock, it not going to matter what starter you have.
And you'll have a nice melted spiner if you're using a plastic spiner.

remove the glow plug and dump the fuel from the engine.

an old simple trick if had ever owned a nitro RC car with a pull start.
drop a drop of fuel in the carb and it'll usually start on the first pull.