AlaSoluciones is on the list of the first 35 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) approved in the country.
This project led by young people passionate about aeromodeling, specialized in the design and manufacture of drones, and registered in the Scientific-Technological Park of Havana since 2020, until now had the category of Self-Employed Workers (TCP). However, following the update of the regulations for self-employed work in the country, they had to start thinking about changing their legal status, otherwise they could not hire more than three workers.
Today, already approved to become a MSME by the Ministry of Economy and Planning, they are still in the middle of the process of creating the enterprise and registering it.
Negolution spoke with Erick Carmona, one of the founders of the project, to learn about the process of converting from TCP to MSME, and his expectations regarding this change to his business.
“The whole process of becoming a MSME was quite easy. We were in the first group of 35 approved ventures in the country. We were very well attended by the ministry, they gave us a lot of help and advice to formulate our corporate purpose. In addition, the application developed by Dofleini, in which the whole process is carried out, really helps a lot in the creation of the MSME, without obstacles or bureaucracy. Everything is done automatically, through the platform,” he explains.
“My experience is that it is not a cumbersome process, as we thought it was going to be, and the work that the ministry has done to execute all this in a fast and agile way is commendable. It has been a stage of mutual learning between the ministry’s specialists and us.”
Erick assures that being an enterprise is at the same time a change of paradigm, especially because they were adapted to working as a TCP, which has its advantages and disadvantages. As a private enterprise they must be more organized, because the benefits grow on having legal status, but also the responsibilities.
“On the other hand, there is what the recognition of MSMEs means. In the short time we have been working on this, when you go to a place to do paperwork or business, the treatment is different, the social recognition is different from what the TCPs have.”
When he talks about AlaSoluciones’ expectations with this form of management that reappears in the Cuban economic landscape, Erick thinks of growth, collaboration and opportunities.
“As TCPs there were many prejudices when we approached any enterprise. Our first expectation is to make a real linkage with a state-owned enterprise and to be able to contribute. We plan to take advantage of these links to grow as a company, to insert ourselves in markets, because our great vision is that alliances are where success lies. To ally ourselves with several enterprises to produce a product, a service. I believe that this is the crucial advantage.”
