Early game you want to play very aggressive. Make sure your enemy get around 30-40 % hp by level 6 so you can flash W Q him and get first blood.

I always take a ward level 1 because Nidalee can stay in a lane for a very long time and giving the first blood to your enemy isn't really nice.

Having 2 pots is enough to stay alive so I take the rest of gold for that ward.
Use it around 2:30-3:00 minutes

-Help mid getting blue buff once you have Wriggle's Lantern.
-Always try to kill dragon by level 6-8 + Wriggle.
-Use Jungle Timer software to track monsters re spawn time.
http://JungleTimer.com

This is how I played all my Nidalee's games and it worked like a charm! :)

Hope you like it.