Time has gone unbelievably fast – in two days we are already off on our vacation back to Estonia and we have been in Calgary almost 6 months. It has been very busy 6 months and we both feel like we definitely deserve a good holiday. Knowing the schedule while we will be at home, […]
Category Archives: Setting up business and other official proceedings
How to start a business, find a flat, bank accounts, etc.
As I’ve written before, I started working with a coach in the beginning of April to get my company started more efficiently and faster. Now I have been doing the homework every week, figuring out what my niche could be, meeting people and doing my market research in getting to know whether the niche I’m […]
With moving from continent to continent all kinds of things come to surface. We brought most of our stuff with us from Estonia to use here in Calgary. Some work without a power conversion, some work slow and some don’t work at all. For example I had to buy a new hair dryer because the […]
I signed up a few weeks ago to be coached by Tara Butler. She organised the webinars to starting entrepreneurs that I was listening in for most of February and of all the coaches interviewed, I decided to choose her to help me on my journey of becoming an entrepreneur. I chose her because I […]
I had to pass a driving test today to get a proper driving licence – the one I had until now has been learner’s licence and I could not even rent a car with that. The way the system works here is that if you are not on the list of countries who have reciprocal […]
Big day today – registered my company in Alberta. Will get the papers in 5-7 business days, but considering that today is the birthday of my company: Coaching by Ave Peetri Inc. The process itself was quite easy. Did a google search to find out how to register, found out that there are several companies […]
Working from home and for yourself has it’s comforts and challenges. The comforts are well discussed – not having to dress up or travel to work, taking breaks when you need to, being able to set your own schedule, not having to do things that you don’t think are wise, the list could go on… […]
One month has passed quickly settling in. I had a few goals for this first month being here, some of them I have completed, the others are still in process. Some things were not really a goal on their own, but I have done them anyway. One of the goals was to start a regular […]
I have been making lists of things that need to get done every day. The lists are quite long and every day they seem to get longer. That has been quite depressing and instead of following my list, I have been doing all kinds of other things including surfing the net, answering Facebook posts etc – […]
While researching how to start a business here, I came across an interesting requirement – you need to have a driver’s licence in order to submit your application. Having a local address made sense immediately and after having pondered a bit I realized that driver’s licence here is like ID card in Estonia – it […]
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