I'm not sure what kind of help a government can realistically offer a startup - other than tax breaks, we had angel investors who benifited from EIS and I saved a chunk of CGT because of the tapering relief rules that were in place at the time meaning I only paid 10%.
Based on my own experiences I'd be very wary of any other "help".
One major peril for erstwhile startup founders is that if you fail while bootstrapping, it can be hard to get a job because people, for some stupid reason or another, consider you to be unemployed. That problem is a non-issue in the valley but I do wonder if it will have to be solved by brute force elsewhere.
The simple answer to that is to avoid employment contracts that claim that - the only time I've had a contract that claimed that was when I was CTO of a VC backed company and one of the investors insisted. My own lawyer suggested that it was unenforceable anyway - as many things are in employment contracts.