Re: Teach Brendan How to Drive Buddypress!
“Would it be easier to bite the bullet now and set up WPMU now so that later I can offer blog functionality? “
WPMU is being merged in with the next version of WordPress. You’ll be able to enable it fairly easily. So, start with WordPress.
“I’ve had a BIG respon$e to my first tweets about the idea and people want in on my project, but alas, I’m no tech geek!!! So I have customers but no website, lol!”
Then my best advice would be to hire someone to build it for you. 
