I'm hoping to develop a Customer relationship mangement system like SugarCRM hopefully geared towards a law firm or bankruptcy leads. Basically it will be for sales people to manage leads and accounts.

I don't know if to simply build on SugarCRM or try using vb.net from scratch. I have a specification document available and the system might be upgraded to handle billing and bankruptcy accounts later. It's a little complex to me if I have to build from scratch and I was wondering if there are some gurus on here that can coach or perhaps join in the project.

Using SugarCRM would make my life easier but may leave out many features. One advantage of using vb.net would be that it can be standalone and packaged for sale in the future but simply harder to develop.

I could consider offering some basic compensation if this gets off the ground and we can get it working. Thanks for reading.