Psychoanalytical Features of IT-startup’s Functioning: Worries and Challenges

It is generally accepted that market and economic factors create the foundation for the functioning of organizations, at the same time, internal organizational issues that have a direct impact on the life of the company are not given due attention to this day. Despite the obvious importance of the external context, such internal processes as psychodynamics, organizational culture, psychological challenges and anxieties directly affect the development and success of the organization. And it-startups (hereinafter - startups) in this case are no exception, moreover, in conditions of rapid growth, a small team, a limited budget, increased workload, innovation and risk, the psychoanalytic features of a startup and its participants, which are invisible at first glance, literally become the key to success. or the failure of the entire project. Psychoanalytic analysis of a startup allows us to focus on the psychological prerequisites of imperceptible and rather vague, as it may seem at first, the nuances of organizational life - subjective ideas about the reasons, motivation and the meaning of the behavior of startup participants. Defense mechanisms that appear in response to challenges and anxieties become the cause of the irrational behavior of the startup team, which often unconsciously leads the project into the “valley of death”.