Williams will share what he has learned about arriving in a city/country which you don’t know anyone with the view of kicking off your coliving. How to gauge the market need, the user’s needs, establish pricing points for property and user, how to sell the concept and build a supporting network, how to select and build your power team and etc. It’s a steep learning curve and we surely wished we had approached a few things differently from the outset.

Williams Johnson is the co-founder and CEO of B-Hive Living – a British-born developer and operator of co-living spaces that meet the changing needs of millennial entrepreneurs and professionals, expanding into Portugal.