You may be able to take advantage of a relationship with an incubator/accelerator and still bootstrap. These are literally everywhere, and believe it or not, there are competent tech workers, advisors and investors all over the US if you do need support.

Major tech hubs are Boston, NYC, Washington DC, Seattle, SF, LA, San Diego, Dallas, Denver, Austin, Atlanta, Raleigh/Durham, Baltimore-Washington-NoVA, St. Louis, Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinatti, Philadelphia-NJ, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, and many more... it's a big freakin' high tech country!

Here is a list of 100 incubators/accelerators across the US:

1. Y Combinator (Mountain View, CA)
2. Techstars (Boulder, CO, and multiple locations)
3. 500 Startups (San Francisco, CA)
4. Plug and Play Tech Center (Sunnyvale, CA)
5. AngelPad (San Francisco, CA)
6. MassChallenge (Boston, MA, and multiple locations)
7. Dreamit Ventures (Philadelphia, PA, and multiple locations)
8. Alchemist Accelerator (San Francisco, CA)
9. The Brandery (Cincinnati, OH)
10. Gener8tor (Madison, WI, and multiple locations)
11. Capital Factory (Austin, TX)
12. Amplify.LA (Los Angeles, CA)
13. StartX (Palo Alto, CA)
14. Betaworks (New York, NY)
15. Tech Wildcatters (Dallas, TX)
16. 1776 (Washington, D.C.)
17. The Startup Collaborative (Omaha, NE)
18. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (New York, NY)
19. Lighthouse Labs (Richmond, VA)
20. Boomtown Accelerator (Boulder, CO)
21. New Venture Challenge (Chicago, IL)
22. The Yield Lab (St. Louis, MO)
23. Acceleprise (San Francisco, CA, and Washington, D.C.)
24. Jumpstart Foundry (Nashville, TN)
25. Venture Hive (Miami, FL)
26. The Startup Factory (Durham, NC)
27. Arch Grants (St. Louis, MO)
28. The ARK Challenge (Fayetteville, AR)
29. Surge Accelerator (Houston, TX)
30. Cyclotron Road (Berkeley, CA)
31. UpTech (Covington, KY)
32. The Iron Yard (Greenville, SC, and multiple locations)
33. gener8tor (Milwaukee, WI)
34. Rev1 Ventures (Columbus, OH)
35. The Harbor Entrepreneur Center (Charleston, SC)
36. QC FinTech (Charlotte, NC)
37. LaunchPad Huntsville (Huntsville, AL)
38. Health Wildcatters (Dallas, TX)
39. Sixers Innovation Lab (Camden, NJ)
40. FounderTrac (Memphis, TN)
41. Velocity Accelerator (Birmingham, AL)
42. FlashStarts (Cleveland, OH)
43. InNEVator (Reno, NV)
44. Iowa Startup Accelerator (Cedar Rapids, IA)
45. Straight Shot (Omaha, NE)
46. The Idea Village (New Orleans, LA)
47. VentureSpur (Oklahoma City, OK)
48. Boomtown Boulder (Boulder, CO)
49. The Refinery (Westport, CT)
50. AlphaLab (Pittsburgh, PA)
51. Betaspring (Providence, RI)
52. Blue Startups (Honolulu, HI)
53. BoomStartup (Salt Lake City, UT)
54. Capital Innovators (St. Louis, MO)
55. Catalyst Accelerator (Denver, CO)
56. Coinvent (San Francisco, CA)
57. EvoNexus (San Diego, CA)
58. Excelerate Labs (Chicago, IL)
59. Health Box (Chicago, IL)
60. High Alpha (Indianapolis, IN)
61. Homebrew (San Francisco, CA)
62. Ignite Accelerator (Washington, D.C.)
63. Launchpad LA (Los Angeles, CA)
64. Mucker Capital (Santa Monica, CA)
65. OCEAN Accelerator (Cincinnati, OH)
66. Quake Capital (New York, NY)
67. RGA Accelerator (New York, NY)
68. SOSV (Princeton, NJ, and multiple locations)
69. StartCo (Memphis, TN)
70. StartFast (Syracuse, NY)
71. Startup Bootcamp (Miami, FL)
72. Startup Junkie (Fayetteville, AR)
73. Startup Socials (San Francisco, CA)
74. Starta Accelerator (New York, NY)
75. TechNexus (Chicago, IL)
76. The Accelerator (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
77. The Farm Accelerator (Atlanta, GA)
78. The Hatchery (New York, NY)
79. The Startup Factory (Durham, NC)
80. TinySeed (San Diego, CA)
81. Year One Labs (New York, NY)
82. Zero to 510 (Memphis, TN)
83. Accelerprise (San Francisco, CA)
84. Dreamit Health (Philadelphia, PA)
85. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (New York, NY)
86. FinTech Innovation Lab (New York, NY)
87. Food-X (New York, NY)
88. Founder Institute (Palo Alto, CA, and multiple locations)
89. Founder.org (San Francisco, CA)
90. Fourthwave (Los Angeles, CA)
91. HAX (San Francisco, CA, and Shenzhen, China)
92. Indie Bio (San Francisco, CA)
93. MergeLane (Boulder, CO)
94. MetaProp (New York, NY)
95. NextGen Venture Partners (Washington, D.C.)
96. Plug and Play (Sunnyvale, CA, and multiple locations)
97. PNP2 (Portland, OR)
98. PowerMoves (New Orleans, LA)
99. Reach (Austin, TX)
100. XRC Labs (New York, NY)

Most major research universities have some type of entrepreneurship program and at least one associated incubator/accelerator.