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I use them both on daily basis, SCSS & Compass for a Sencha Touch project and LESS & Bootstrap for web dev work, along side with CodeKit to compile them and the major difference that I see is the speed of compiling. The projects I work on are both pretty large and with many .scss/.less files but LESS compiles way faster for me and this is a big plus.
Also, LESS is pretty useful for rapid prototyping since you can use the less.js and skip the compiling part altogether.
Invest a bit of time in the looks of your service/startup, if it looks like the next service/startup, it's just another Boostrap themed website that people (I assume) are tired of.
This is one of the main reasons why foundations like Twitter Bootstrap or Compass are awesome but unfortunately people are so lazy they don't even change the color variables in Bootrstrap, hence the "yet another Twitter Bootstrap" site.
[1] Facebook had 706 CSS files, they declared the Facebook blue color 261 times, used 548 unique hex values for colors, had 6498 declarations of color. http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1379
Since when learning to code is something everybody HAS to do nowadays? Let's all also learn how to use a crane or how to perform surgery and get badges while we're at it.
Want to build a complex app that could run on iOS, Android and Windows Mobile with no(t much) fuss? Don't like writing HTML or CSS by hand but enjoy writing JavaScript MVC stuff and fancy learning new stuff? Go with Sencha.
Want to build a nice mobile interface for a website but you need your very own markup and CSS and you'd also like to apply your jQuery king-funess to the project? jQuery Mobile is the thing you need.
Want that "site" to be a native app that talks with your web services and uses accelerometer, gps and camera? Add Phonegap.
Is that let's-pay-them-enough-not-to-leave-for-Facebook-even-if-they-don't-do-much strategy still on?
When others copy you it must be a good thing.