Fernando Mendes, founder of CoworkLab, Maputo.

2. Colocar 3 fotos
3 CoWork Spaces in Maputo (Mozambique)
(Started November 2012)

3. COWORK:
BUSINESS OR
PLEASURE?

4. “We are not in the business of
renting tables”

5. “We are not in the business of
renting tables”
Well.. Not only, but
that’s how we pay bills.

6. COWORK
BUSINESS OR PLEASURE?
SUSTAINABLE
PLEASURE!

8. HOW can cowork be Sustainable Pleasure
with this “real state cost”?
• Option1: You are rich, so don’t even
care, go for it 
• Option2: You are the property owner.
Great, don’t try to know how much
your property is worth on the market,
open your cowork NOW 
• Option3: BE finantially aware

9. CoWork Finantial BIG 5:
• COST OF RENT IN “RENTABLE” SQMeters
• OTHER FIXED COSTS (Overheads)
• SET-UP INVESTMENT
• MAXIMUM INCOME (With core service)
• OCCUPATION RATE FOR BREAKEVEN

10. MAXIMUM INCOME
(With core service)
OCCUPATION RATE FOR
BREAKEVEN
COST OF RENT IN
“RENTABLE” SQMeters
OTHER FIXED
COSTS
(Overheads) SET-UP
INVESTMENT

11. CoWork Finantial BIG 5 (CoWorkLab
Maputo case-study):
COST OF RENT IN
“RENTABLE” SQMeters
Leopard 20 usd 500 sqm for 10.000 usd
OTHER FIXED COSTS
(Overheads)
Elephant 4.000 usd
People, Internet,
Energy, Water,
Security(?), etc
SET-UP INVESTMENT Rino 25000 usd
Furniture, decoration,
etc
MAXIMUMINCOME
(With core service)
Lion 25.000 usd
50 usd per rentable
sqm
OCCUPATION RATE FOR
BREAKEVEN
Bufallo 56%
How confortable are
you with that?
Big 5 Monthly values and comments

12. HOW can cowork be Sustainable Pleasure
with this “real state cost”?
• Keep the Leopard under surveillance and much
smaller than your lion
• Start with a baby Rino – let him grow with the
buffalos.
• Put your elephant on a diet, but make sure he is
still an Elephant
• Find a “game reserve” wide enough so that
your lion can grow strong
• Make sure your herd of Buffalo make lots of
babies fast 

13. www.coworklab.net
Fernando Mendes
fernando.mendes@coworklab.net