The new majority: as more minority women start their own businesses, this segment of the entrepreneurial population is getting harder to ignore.(EXTRA)

Entrepreneur | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

ZOA MARTINEZ already knew she had the entrepreneurial spirit as a teenager. A gifted artist, she made money doing calligraphy projects for every club at her Miami high school. "I would get a couple of dollars for each [project]," she says. "From a young age, I was already working."

She eventually arrived in New York City, determined to be an artist. She worked for ABC and NBC as a freelance designer, but wanted more. Today, forty-something Martinez is founder, president and creative director of 6-year-old Zona Designs, a 13-employee design agency whose client roster ...

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