Business: Develops and manages northern Minnesota resorts
Founded: 1997
Headquarters: Duluth, Minn.
Website: www.odysseydev.com
Executive: Founder and CEO Bob Ryan
Employees: 150 full-time employees, 100 seasonal
2009 revenue: $16.4 million; on track to gross nearly $18 million in 2010
Quote: "An incompetent manager can make sales of a project's vacation properties difficult, can even bring them to a stop." -- Ryan, explaining why he's only one of a handful of resort developers who stay on to manage a resort after its construction.
