#71 How to Take Smart Risks at Early-Stage Startups with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Prime Venture Partners Podcast

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder & Chairman theBoardlist chats with Amit Somani, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners.
Sukhinder is a Digital leader, Board member and Investor with 25+ years experience. She has held leadership roles at Stubhub, Google, theBoardlist, Yodlee, Polyvore, Joyus and Amazon.

Listen to the podcast to learn about

01:00 - Risk-taking as an early-stage startup founder

06:50 – How to train your team to take risks

11:30 – Evaluating risk and reward when joining a startup

21:45 – How to rent the mind that you can’t afford to hire

27:30 – How should board members help founders

31:30 – Think Gut-Data-Gut NOT Gut Vs Data

36:00 - How to write a book about principles

Check out the book Choose Possibility by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

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