Ask HN: Ruby or Python for a Startup?

Howdee fellow hackers,

I'm currently in the process of assembling a development team for my newly born venture, and would like to raise a question: if you were in my shoes, which would you pick as the "base" language for the team: Python or Ruby?

A little bit of background to fundament that (seemingly naive) question:

- The only techie on the company today is myself. I'm familiar with both languages and have no preference of one over the other at all

- The products we'll be working on are not just web based: although there will be one or two web sites (which can be handled with either django or rails), most of the code will be on services (e.g. interfacing with bluetooth, gps and other hardware devices, background jobs, etc). I'm not mentioning C since I'm leaning to those scripting languages due to better testability, less code, etc)

- I'm aware that python currently has a better support for such things (ruby's bluetooth libs, for instance, are quite half-baked so far). Although my general feeling is that Ruby (now backed up as being 'the scape pod' for Java) will probably evolve rather quickly from this moment on (yes? no?)

- It is equally hard to find experienced programmers on any of those two languages around here (actually the only experienced ones you can find here work in php). The learning curves are quite similar too, IMO

If possible, I'd like to hear opinions on those matters.

Thanks in advance! :-)