About this source
Fullest career biography of Stuart Karl: Video Store Magazine (1979), the founding of Karl Video Corporation (1980), the Mid-Vid special-interest line, the 1982 Jane Fonda Workout joint venture with RCA, the 1984 Lorimar sale, the 1987 resignation, his 1991 death at age 38, and 1995 Video Hall of Fame induction. Carries his 1980 quote on filling the home-video software gap.
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Sell-Through Category Creation (Buy-to-Own)
Price a rental-only product to own instead, anchor it to content worth repeating, and let ownership pull the hardware market up with you.
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The Special-Interest Wedge
Enter through the practical, special-interest content the incumbents think is beneath them, then use that beachhead to open the category they left undefended.