If you want to work for a small startup, Ruby seems to be what most people are looking for. If you really want to show off your programming chops, learn somethi

If you want to work for a small startup, Ruby seems to be what most people are looking for. If you really want to show off your programming chops, learn something lower level like C++. Of course you said it should be "webby" so another option is something like C#, as long as you don't mind Windows.