[noreasonw]

Perhaps instead of putting the focus in the language you should put a lot of effort and focus on which product or service you are going to develop. Many lispers like people in rethinkdb or the author of the favorite book for CL use other languages (C++ for rethinkdb, Ruby for the author of the book), so first is the product or service, the computer language and tools are a secondary tool. Premature choosing the language perhaps indicate you need to think again what you are going to do in your startup.