With potential business owners ready to move from ‘flat footing hustles’ into substantive, structured small businesses, the state-run mechanisms that have supposedly been put in place to facilitate the transition, and which are presumed to be ‘fit for purpose’ organizations do not, in many instances, appear in practice, to ideally serve the purpose for which they were created. Head of the small business support organization, Together We Win, Marlon Joseph, earlier this week told the Stabroek Business that he believed that state-run entities seeking to lend support to small business entities needed to have an awareness of where those potential small businesses are “coming from” if workable initiatives are to be created to enable the smooth passage of what have been “small time hustles” into “substantive businesses.”