Companies like Chemdex, E-Steel and DirectAg.com achieved success in their respective industries, offering a promising model that might be duplicated in other markets.
And even in the dumps of a recession, as storefronts go dark in other parts of New York, the Smith Street boomlet churns on, drawing attention as a business model that might be replicated elsewhere.
Still, questions swirl over the economic model that might eventually emerge to finance these online courses, which so far tend to be offered free in what amounts to a global test-marketing phase.
Ed Collier, a producer at China Plate, says that "touring and making for us are always completely intertwined … right from the start of the making process we're already thinking about the audience and how we'll reach them, through whatever dissemination or touring model that might be".
During the keynote session on Tuesday, Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired, spoke about finding a sustainable business model in a world that seems free of user revenues, a model that might involve the few paying for specific things, while the many ride free.
As art historian Jan Emmens argued in his book Rembrandt and the Rules of Art, the formation of this myth owes much to a standard biographical model that might be called the "Saul-Paul model"—according to which the subject's life suddenly undergoes a radical change in direction as the result of a crisis or conversion.
The champion made the return trip 17 times.There then began a 13-year labour of love—"obsession" might be a better word for Dr Dunstan, who used his and his students' spare time to develop a computer model that might explain the data he had collected.
"Gulf countries are not interested in promoting models that might prove subversive of their family-based political systems".
American-led forces in Iraq are still hunting for other plants and their support vehicles, especially older models that might better match the descriptions of Iraqi sources.
Cohen thought universality belonged to German philosophy, rather than considering internationalist or global models that might provide an alternative to both nation-states.
But equally evident is the strain in transforming cute and cozy ethnic types into a set of positive role models that might be introduced into a public school presentation in 2002.
