Just wait for it 
I think thats the problem bigj. Ppl have been waiting for a long time now. Devs have done some fantastic work, but have been up against it for a huge array of reasons... and things just aren't happening quickly enough for some. Plus, there seems to be so many HUGE dumps each day on XMR lately, any upwards momentum is immediately squashed... and that scares people so smaller investors get spooked and move on to something else.
We've said this before, and it bears repeating: Monero is not an "investment". In fact, we are actively working against the price "naturally" rising merely as a result of us fudging some numbers. You see, Bitcoin's price rose because of an artificial scarcity created by a fixed number of coins and a diminishing block reward. Now that's all well and good, but the sudden creation of quite a bit of wealth for some early adopters has had several interesting consequences. The most interesting of them is the Coattail Riding Effect. That is to say: the vast majority of altcoins that are released nowadays, and this is especially true for proof-of-stake coins, exist solely to try and ride Bitcoin's coattails, making the group of early adopters in that altcoin tremendously wealthy.
With Monero we have opted not to repeat that process, and instead of simply running with a deflationary currency and hoping for some form of profit, we have instead aimed to aggressively move in the opposite direction and make it slightly inflationary. This means that Monero is NEVER going to become incredibly valuable overnight, and it's not going to make insta-millionaires out of anyone. It means that its value is going to come entirely from utility and usefulness, and that hoarding it for 6 months or a year or maybe even 2 years is not going to make you rich.
If you want Monero to grow in value and you want to be part of advancing technology...well, be prepared for the long haul, be prepared to ignore the price, and make a concerted effort to build something for the Monero economy. The core team will endeavour to make things progressively easier for end users and for integrators / merchants / automation systems, but that should not prevent you from spending your spare time making Monero useful and usable through your own projects. It's the reason we have the External Projects section in the Missive now:)
If we become a community of builders, of creators, of innovators in things beyond the core of Monero, we will truly have something remarkable and revolutionary on our hands.
