The price rise is a good thing for Monero from many perspectives:

1) As you said, more businesses get interested
2) When a whale needs to buy some expensive drink he doesn't need to crash the price in doing so (only a small number of coins spent will buy anything)
3) Increasing price encourages adoption - better than any advertisements on television or newspapers
4) The development will become more rewarding, thus hurrying things up.
5) No more whining on threads as nobody is underwater (I have not been underwater for loong time)

Perhaps you can come up even more arguments why increasing price trend (bull market) is better than bear market (which is the problem with fiat money in form of inflation).