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You are more likely to get help in the IR tech support section - you might even find some helpful tips in various threads about issues with starting problems:

 
Is this a problem in the Steam -> launcher phase, or the launcher -> game phase?

If it's the former, I had that occur occasionally on my previous computer (and only with Paradox games). Clicking "play" a couple times in succession seemed to work.