BAN HAET, Thailand — For 35-year-old Nutthawaree Munkan, Israel was supposed to be the coda of a long journey to pay off her debts — and to allow her family to truly begin living.

Special correspondent Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai in Ban Haet contributed to this report.

An investor may be able to recoup some of the investment through sales of shares in a downward trending firm if it is listed on SSX, whereas typically the entire investment would go down with a tanking business in other investment models, Haet says.

“Outside of perhaps Silicon Valley, raising money is a full-time occupation in itself,” says Haet.

“It’s an evolution of crowd-funding,” Haet explains.