Valentine's Day has come and gone, but a lot of small businesses are still looking for love, or at least good business matches. We've seen a lot of advice about not trying to go it alone in tough economic times. The key to thriving, or even just surviving, may be the partnerships you build. Entrepreneur.com shares some ideas and resources--many of them online--for finding the right match for key objectives like funding, development plans, or connecting with a corporate sugar daddy: Maybe what you need is a corporate partner to help bring an idea to the big time. According to Docherty, opportunities await entrepreneurs in the emerging field of open innovation, where large companies and innovators collaborate to bring a proven concept to market. Now more than ever, he says, "progressive, large companies are recognizing they need outside innovators as much as innovators need them." His company, Venture2, organizes one-day "Innovation Speed Dating" events, where pre-screened entrepreneurs and corporate product-development execs rotate through a series of face-to-face first and second "dates," with the goal of finding a partner. For those who prefer to avoid the dating scene, there's PartnerUp.com , which matches entrepreneurs with business partners, co-founders, and board members. Users solicit interest by posting partnership opportunities. Once potential partners identify one another, they can communicate anonymously before formalizing a relationship. Read the full article here .