{"id":866,"date":"2015-03-17T01:39:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=866"},"modified":"2015-03-17T01:39:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T01:39:58","slug":"does-pain-always-have-to-be-painful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/does-pain-always-have-to-be-painful\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Pain Always Have to be Painful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s sales class a great point was brought up about how the process of finding pain does not always have to necessarily be painful. This past Saturday at Grove City College&#8217;s first ever Shark Tank event the contest winner ended up pitching an idea that did not seem to dig for pain within the audience. But, obviously the &#8220;sharks&#8221; thought differently.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Grove City College has been having a difficult time increasing applications, which means that the overall acceptance rate of the college is higher than desired. Without most of the audience realizing this issue, the sharks viewed Sam Calhoun&#8217;s IM Spikeball idea as a way that could help. Sam communicated Spikeball as a game which builds comradery, community and energy on campus. Although all of these words do not sound painful, the &#8220;sharks&#8221; realize what this could do. The other ideas were thoughtful and very useful, but none of them may really help prospective visitors to view Grove City College as a vibrant place to be.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.usetopscore.com\/uploads\/871\/media_items\/spikeball-03.1440.806.s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"198\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 354px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 354\/198;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s sales class a great point was brought up about how the process of finding pain does not always have to necessarily be painful. This past Saturday at Grove City College&#8217;s first ever Shark Tank event the contest winner ended up pitching an idea that did not seem to dig for pain within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}