When Malaysian Kelvin Teo and Indonesian Reynold Wijaya set up crowd-investing website Funding Societies in 2015 in Singapore, both were not on the island.
"My co-founder and I incorporated the company and built a team (of five) here, via the Internet and video calls, without being physically in Singapore," Mr Teo, a Singapore permanent resident, told The Straits Times.
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